I Want To See Its Guts!

What makes it tick?

• Ruby On Rails
  • acts_as_rateable - basic rating system extended for use with our app
  • acts_as_taggable_on_steroids - tagging system
  • exception_notification - allows the app to email us whenever a user encounters an error
  • has_many_friends - allows users to have friends, sets up the relationships needed
  • permalink_fu - adding permalinks to the business model to allow pretty urls
  • restful_authentication - basic REST style authentication
  • will_paginate - a replacement for the inbuilt pagination which has been extended to work with all models and plugins / generators used
  • Basic searching system (would like to update to a cacheing version - less load on the server)
  • RESTful routes
• Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict
• Valid CSS
• A little bit of AJAX-y goodness

Go And Rate

http://mynewfavourite.biz is up and running and we want all of you to go and become a member so you can rate some businesses. Also please contact us if you have any queries / suggestions - anything at all. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Final Presentation

Today was our final project presentation - the presentations have been split up over 2 days and it was good to see that only maybe 10 people showed up for it...

Our presentation was really similar to the prelim presentation in that we covered what we had achieved, discussed the issues that we had and where we thought we could take it from here.

Again, I hope that everyone was impressed by what we have achieved because we certainly are! There were some other great presentations as well and I am really looking forward to October 31st when I can walk around and see everyones projects.

Features List and Friends - Added

Just a quick update - have spent the last weekish solidly working on implementing the Friends and Features List suggestions.

Each user now has their own friends list which can be viewed at http://mynewfavourite.biz/users/ your user number /friends - mine for example is http://mynewfavourite.biz/users/1/friends. From here you are able to see which users have added you as a friend and also remove friends from your list.

If you goto http://mynewfavourite.biz/features you are able to see all the feaures implemented and rate upcoming features.

Access Denied

Yesterday I lost the ability to run migrations (create / edit / delete tables within a database) - I had it and then I lost it. This was the error: Access denied for user 'mnfb'@'apache2-yak.wrangler.dreamhost.com' (using password: YES)... Great...

So I wrote Dreamhost about it and within 24 hours I had a response to my problems (that's impressive) - somewhere along the lines there had been a database user / pass mismatch, fixed it up and it is back to working perfectly :).

Finally... Application Deployed On Dreamhost

Finally, after 15 hours of trial and error, 7 tutorials and many many cuss words - http://mynewfavourite.biz is live!

Come along and signup now for a free account!

Premlim. Presentation

Woohoo - presentation seemed to go really well. Ralf, Lorna and Petra all seemed to understand and like the idea (which is nice considering the time we have put into it). We also received some really neat comments / suggestions on things that we can improve.

• Features List - a place where we can inform people about the features introduced thus far and features to come. New and upcoming features can be rated - this will allow us to see which is most popular.
• Friends List - allow users to become friends which will increase the overall social aspect of the site.
• Instead of just rating a business, we need to add: rating and reviewing.

All the above mentioned suggestions are implementable - we just need the time. So we will have to see how we go.