Do you ever feel intese nostalgia when hearing a song? When the music that’s playing brings your right back to a certain memory, city, or time in your life? SoundTrack is a journal platform, that will eventually leverage Spotify’s API so that music and memories can interwine like they do in real life.
My most recent project was a refactor of my third portfolio app, Bare Necessities. Bare Necessities 1.0 was a Ruby on Rails, calendar app. The features of the site loosely resemble Google’s calendar app. In this article I will break down the technologies used, challenges faced and learning moments in my second version of the app, Bare Necessities 2.0. My app differentiates itself from other portfolio projects because it is not a straightforward content management system. The data structure and user interface are a bit more complicated because we are trying to represent data across an accurate timeline. In my case, the timeline is largely based on the calendar month (the homepage, views, and features center a monthly lense).
My rails portfolio project is a simple calendar (hence the name) with features to add events, and their related tasks. The project is loosely modeled after google’s calendar feature. Each user may choose to create their own login, or to login with their google account.
My sinatra app is meaningful in the sense that it solves a problem or pain that people who code experience. As a programmer, we often move forward despite the code not being perfect when we are creating and designing a web app. We strive to take tiny steps forward towards the solution without worrying if the code is perfect. We can always come back and refactor the code once we have it working. The problem we face, is that although we can comment on these peices of code that we plan to refactor later, it isn’t ideal. Comments are ugly and are scattered within huge file directories. Finding and remembering where all the code is that needs refactoring is tedious and ineffecient.
Sinatra is a framework to help you control flow and implement actions for a website.