MyCut

Minimum Viable Product

MyCut is a clone of Yelp built on Rails and Backbone. Users can:

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Implementation Timeline

Phase 1: User Authentication and Validations (~.5 day)

I will implement user authentication + sessions through standard Rails practices and a primary static page to host my Backbone application. I well set up the the initial migrations, models, both DB and model level validations, as well as the necessary associations. At this point I will deploy to Heroku.

Primary duties: Authentication, validating models + associations, deploying to Heroku.

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Phase 2a: Creating/Viewing Shops and Reviews (~1-2 days)

I will add API endpoints to serve shop and review data as JSON, then add Backbone models and collections that fetch data from those routes. I will set up the Backbone views so that users will be able to create and view shops, tags and reviews.

[Details][phase-two-a]

Phase 2b: Showing a shop, its barbers, and reviews. ~1-2 day

[Details][phase-two-b]

Phase 3: Create, view, and edit a barber portfolio (~2 days)

I will add API endpoints and jbuilder views to serve barber data as JSON, and then I will add a Backbone

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Phase 4: User Feeds (~1-2 days)

I'll start by adding a feed route that uses the current_user's subscribed_blogs association to serve a list of blog posts ordered chronologically. On the Backbone side, I'll make a FeedShow view whose posts collection fetches from the new route. Ultimately, this will be the page users see after logging in.

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Phase 5: Search for shops (~2 days)

I'll need to add search routes to both the Shops controller. On the Backbone side, there will be a SearchResults composite view has BlogsIndex and PostsIndex subviews. These views will use plain old blogs and posts collections, but they will fetch from the new search routes.

[Details][phase-five]

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