treebnb is an airbnb clone that exclusively features tree houses. It was built by Jorge Rodriguez using Ruby on Rails along with Backbone.js and other jQuery and Javascript features. All pages were hand-styled.
treebnb features the core functionality of airbnb. Users can:
- Create and manage a profile page
- Search for treehouses by location and dates
- View availability for all listed treehouses
- List their own treehouses for other users to request a stay
- Write reviews of users(hosts) and treehouses
- Send and receive messages
- Receive notifications
- Approve or deny requests to their listings
- Use the Dashboard feature to manage their concerns
Various technologies were utilized to make treebnb work.
- Uses of custom SQL queries to validate room requests against room availability supplied by the room owner and previously approved room requests
- Allows uploading of pictures using Paperclip and ImageMagick
- Customized interactive map using Mapbox's Javascript API
- Dynamic jQuery UI Datepicker calendar that responds to room availability changes in the database
- Dashboard feature uses Backbone.js put all the user's main concerns on one page
- Overwrites parse method in Backbone message model
- Builds custom JSON using Jbuilder
- Polymorphic Notification model that creates notifications for new reviews, messages, and changes in the status of pending requests
- Pagination using Kaminari
- Designed to work with or without JavaScript enabled
- Set up a mailer to confirm email addresses
- Use OmniAuth to allow signup via a third party application
- Further integrate Datepicker to allow for date selection
- Use jQuery UJS to decrease number of page loads
- Use Pusher to update message view in real time
- Add the ability for users to reset passwords