Planty

This is an mvp webstore, written in ruby on rails and hosted on Heroku. This app allows users to buy and sell plant cuttings from people in there community.

Live demo here.

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Technologies Used
• Features
• Setup
• Project Status
• Room for Improvement
• Acknowledgements
• Contact

General Information

• This is an mvp webstore, written in ruby on rails and hosted on Heroku.
• This app allows users to list plants to sell and allows buys to find sellers in there area selling a wide range of plant clippings.
• This project was completed as part of the Le Wagon fullstack developer bootcamp and served as an opportunity to develop my skills in:

• ruby on rails
• javascript
• scss
• javascript libraries
• git version control
• user authentication
• REST APIs
• production deployment
• implementation of image hosting services

Technologies Used

• Rails 6.1.5.1 - Rails app generated with lewagon/rails-templates
• Ruby 3.0.3
• yarn 1.22.17
• SCSS
• typed_js
• Cloudinary image hosting
• devise
• Mapbox api
• Stripe Api
• jQuery
• bootstrap 5
• font-awesome 6
• PostgreSQL 12

Features

• Create/edit plant listings
• Find plant cuttings for sale in your area using Mapbox API
• Purchase multiple plant cuttings from various sellers
• Checkout and pay with credit card via Stripe API
• Review your purchases
• View all your plants bought, sold and listed on your dashboard

Setup

You will need Ruby 3.0.3 and Rails 6.1.5.1. Both can be installed via rbenv You will also need a Cloudinary account (free is sufficient) Download/Fork/Clone the repo and cd into the repo root directory in your terminal

To check that you have the correct ruby version run: ruby --version

Run: touch .env followed by echo '.env*' >> .gitignore and add your cloudinary api to the .env file CLOUDINARY_URL=cloudinary://2985**************D-***********************8 Add your mapbox api key to .env file MAPBOX_API_KEY=pk.eyJ1IjoicGR1b****************yZvNpTR_kk1kKqQ Add your stripe keys to the .env file STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=*********************** and STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=******************

Then run: bundle install to install the required gems

Run: yarn install to install the js packages

Run: rails db:create rails db:migrate rails db:seed to set up your database

Run: rails s to start a local rails server

Project Status

Project is: in progress

Room for Improvement

To do:

• Adding user favourites
• Add Ajax to search
• Add user authentication
• Fix bugs related to managing stock quantity
• Add notifications

Acknowledgements

• This project was a created as part of the Le Wagon Bootcamp with the help of Le Wagon Teaching Assistants

Contact

Created by Cerulean-Ash, k0sa7a, dora13l and piresgabriel - Feel free to contact us!