Week 8 summary - holiday + deploy my app
The last week we spent just three days in our class before going on Christmas holiday. We were still working on our airbnb app and do some improvements. I fixed some bugs I had from the last time when I pushed my app to heroku and I also added some data so now you can search by nearest places or by title / address (& see the beauty haha).
http://air-bnb.herokuapp.com/ - try to search âPenangâ, âMalaysiaâ, âLondonâ, âCyberiaâ ;D
After our class on Wednesday my friend from Hong Kong arrived to KL and the next early morning we were heading to Penang, to the Island of food, for holiday. It was on the Christmas day and we had some issue with our bus. Eventually instead of like 5 hours journey we spent on the roads about 8 hours.
To change a location it could be sometimes very shocking. I felt like that when I arrived to Penang. Dirty, chaos, traffic, smoke everywhere, no clean sea... no Christmas atmosphere at all. I felt quite sad that I couldnât be home and I wrote a status on FB to express my friends that they are lucky they could be together with the closest people (family and friends). This Christmas I really wanted to be home (that was before I got the idea to do the bootcamp as soon as I could:)).
On the other hand at least I was not totally alone and I spent the time with my very international friend May (thank you for that!). Our friendship is quite rare. I hosted her in London through Couchsurfing about a year ago - thatâs how we met. Then 6 months later she hosted me in Hong Kong when I was traveling in Asia. This Christmas she is traveling in Malaysia so we met again and we spent 4 days together in Penang. Who has such a friend? Haha.
So what about Penang? It was very busy, many cars, but the food was really awesome. Here is a pic with some of them - thanks for all the recommendations!
day: get some beers, haha
day: Penang hill - climbing because it was such a big queue downstair for the âtrainâ. When we reached the middle, we were so exhausted but lucky - we could take the train from the middle station, yes! + temple and food.
day: Rent a scooter, going to Penang Escape - we are monkeeeeys! And visiting a beach.
day: I moved back to Cyberjaya and May continued to Langkawi.
Thatâs all what I can say. Letâs get back to coding. My todo list for air-bnb:
In userâs registration, there is validation but not errors showing. Have to fix it.
Install bookable gem for booking validation
Hide edit in Booking and Listing + set up authorization
Fix my beautiful jQuery calendar - check-in & check-out as date range + disable booked dates and past dates.
Install gmaps4rails gem to show multilocation and pin the addresses + make it easier than the javascript solution from G maps API
Set up SendGrid email service in Heroku (the gmail works just on localhost right now)
After searching page - bigger pictures in the searched listing + overlay text - name or location
Overlay text - distance in listings/show
Moving the box for booking in listings/show.. scrolling with users till it reach the bottom - it is working, but I am unable to stop it and it does infinity scrolling, haha.
DRY the code, change some html forms to rails forms
Upload slider images to Google photo or Amazon S3(?) to make faster loading
Some pop-up, improve the front end of forms and try to implement some AJAX
Sliders to be mobile friendly - responsive
Improve performance and read more about rails app in production
Ufff... lots of work. I will probably leave it as I know what to do and I think I am capable to figure out the solutions for all of the things above. We just started rspec to test our app so I will move my attention into it and the todo list? Hopefully I will have some time after the course to make my air-bnb clone perfect.
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