Majordomo

The room booking and occupancy web app.

User Stories

User stories are available here.

Technology

• Ruby 2.3.3
• Rails 5.0.1
• postgresql
• Rspec-rails & Capybara
• haml (with haml_rails)
• bootstrap3-datetimepicker-rails (with momentjs-rails)
• simple_calendar
• validates_overlap
• date_validator

How To Use the App

Go straight to https://majordomo-makers.herokuapp.com.

Or on your own machine, open your terminal and:

$ git clone https://github.com/sliute/majordomo.git
$ cd majordomo
$ bundle
$ bin/rake db:create
$ bin/rake db:migrate
$ bin/rails s

Then go to http://localhost:3000 and enjoy.

Progress

1. MVP technical accomplishments

• Back-end:
  • validating for overlapping bookings in the respective model
  • building a self-updating room status view.
• Front-end:
  • [TO ADD HERE]

2. Post-MVP technical accomplishments

• Back-end:
  • introducing the room model, the one-to-many relationship (one room, many bookings) and the room-booking association
  • this required a complete redo of the booking overlap validation (via a 3rd party gem) and a partial redo of the room status
  • it also required a major refactoring of the booking feature test suite, to accommodate new routes and relationships
• Front-end:
  • [TO ADD HERE]

Issues

1. MVP struggles

• Back-end:
  • capturing data from a 3rd party date-time picker and funnelling it into the booking model/db.
• Front-end:
  • [TO ADD HERE]

2. Post-MVP struggles

• Back-end:
  • introducing the room model after the booking model. This required a significant rewrite of the existing code and test bases.
• Front-end:
  • [TO ADD HERE]