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[mohnjoosemiller]

TL;DR - Location Based Tips for campus/city activity

While all the ideas/features aren't fleshed out yet, I'm going to be working on creating an app that allows you to post and receive tips that are location based. You'll be able to post tips, with info about the tip like location, picture, and description, and you'll also be able to check out a map of nearby tips so you can always find new things!

Also, I'm gonna release a preview of the app for UH first so I can see how it behaves in the wild!

Repo live at https://github.com/Pro-Tip/Pro-tip.github.io

[connorjclark]

Interesting idea. Good luck implementing it all!
Have you considered using Ruby on Rails for the website? Once you learn it, it ought to save you time in any future websites you make.

[mohnjoosemiller]

@hoten you have any ideas on how Rails might specifically be useful for this project? I've never really put much thought into learning rails, but if you think it could be useful to this I'd love to know!

[connorjclark]

You can easily generate web pages to view information in your database (your tips) and generate web forms to create new ones. Ruby on Rails is highly conventionalized and so it helps to reduce development time and how much "groundwork" you need to do to set up a MVC architecture (in fact, MVC is literally baked into it).

My knowledge only goes as far as what Rails for Zombies taught me. If you are comfortable with your current web stack, keep to it. If, however, you don't really know what your using too well, I suggest taking the time to learn Rails. If you plan on making more websites in the future, it would help you a lot.