/spray_day

Calculator for air assisted spraying operations (Primarily Orchard/vinyard)

Primary LanguageRuby

Check out the initial version here, I've just migrated it to aws https://spray-day.click/

Table of Contents

General Information

  • I spent some time helping to run an organic apple orchard a little while ago and wanted a way to make the job a little bit easier as it often involved doing several things at once including measuring things out precisely.
  • Spray-day simplifies the process of setting up spray programs as once the details of the users farms and what products they want to be apply have been entered once, they are there ready to be selected again. -Spray-day is mobile responsive and lets a job usually done at a desk be carried out anywhere while still providing records
  • This project gave me a good opportunity to solidify my knowledge of Ruby on Rails and setting up a Postgres relational database and taught me how to deploy a rails app to a remote linux server (AWS EC2)

Technologies Used

  • Ruby on Rails 6
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Postgres
  • HTML-5
  • CSS-3

Features

  • Mobile responsive
  • Lightweight fast frontend for practical users
  • Accurate spray calculations anywhere

Screenshots

Project Status

Project is: in progress On hold for now as the basic functionality works. Until I'm ready to spend some money on hosting I cant implement the pdf download feature

Room for Improvement

To do:

  • Implement product type and recommended mix order
  • Pdf download in production

Acknowledgements

  • This project was inspired by my time at Rudford Farm
  • Calculations and information about air assisted spraying in orchards are available here: Sprayers-101

Contact

Created by James Reed - feel free to contact me!