/BetterHelp

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BetterHelp

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BetterHelp is a single-page web application inspired by Yelp. It is a local-search service application that allows users to write reviews and search businesses. It utilizes Ruby on Rails on the backend, a PostgreSQL database, and React.js with a Redux architectural framework on the frontend.

Features

Mark reviews as funny, cool, useful, and like

BetterHelp uses single table inhertiance to keep code DRY. There is a column type on the adjectives table which allows creating new class models that inherit from Adjective giving the child classes access to the parent class.

class Cool < Adjective


  validates :user_id, :review_id, presence: true

  belongs_to :review
  belongs_to :user


end

Reviews

Users are able to create, read, update, and delete reviews they have written for relevant businesses. Once a user writes a review, the review is then saved in the database with the user_id. alt text

Once the review is stored in the database, it will redirect you to the business show page where on componentDidMount, the relevant reviews for the business will be rendered along with the written review.

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Search

One of BetterHelp's core features is the ability to search for relavent businesses. Users are able to search for relevant businesses and upon submission, an AJAX Api request is made to the database where the businesses are filtered using ActiveRecord.

  def search
    @businesses = Business.where('name ILIKE ?', "%#{params[:search]}%")
    render :index
  end