RailsBridge's BookClub Reference App¶

Note: you can follow project status on http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/18298

Stage 1¶

An User model is created displaying basic fields that describe an user

• login
• password
• name
• email
• location

A Book model is created

• user_id
• title
• Author
• published year
• genre
• ISBN
• description/summary

An User can add books
An User can stipulate which books they have read.
An User can edit/delete books THEY have added, if nobody read the book too.

Stage 2¶

An User can add reviews to the books that he already read

A Review model is created,

• book_id
• user_id
• review
• rating (excellent use case for the css/js team (stars anyone?))

An Author model is created

• name
• country
• website

We establish the relationship of Authors -> Books

Stage 3¶

An User can add another User as a friend, share reviews & recommendations

Self referential relationship. User has many Users (friends) #this can be hard on large datasets

Include Watch features:

• Watch books for new reviews
• Watch an author for new book releases
• Find people watching/reading a book for friendship suggestions.
• Find people with same genre preferences

Some code improvements

• refactor the Book's user_id to created_by

Stage 4¶

Everything that is "advanced"-ish

• Book attachments / thumbnails
• Mailer methods
• PDF export of the books + all reviews
• Search for books. Simple version: with MySQL\PostgreSQL built-in tools. Advanced: with sphinx and thinking sphinx.