bunch

Meet in the middle with friends at a fair place by traveling time!

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What is Bunch?

Bunch takes the arguments out of organising a meetup with friends. Just tell it where you're coming from and Bunch will find the best bars, cafes and restaurants in a central location that suits the whole group.

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Bunch Home

Bunch Map

Development

Bunch was built in less than two weeks as part of the 12-week [Makers Academy] coding curriculum.

Meet the team:

Technologies

Combining front-end mapping and back-end algorithm work, Bunch gave us the opportunity to use all the tools we'd learned in the previous 10 weeks at Makers Academy.

Platform: Ruby on Rails with a PostgresQL ActiveRecord database and a Thin web server

Coding tools: Ruby, JavaScript, JQuery, JBuilder, HTML5, CSS3, Mustache, Twitter Bootstrap

Testing tools: Rspec, Jasmine, Cucumber, Capybara

APIs

Bunch uses [gmaps.js] to geocode addresses and display maps, the [Google Maps Distance Matrix API] for journey times, and [Foursquare] to find and display points of interest.

During the research phase we also investigated various [Google Maps APIs], [TfL], [TransportAPI], [Mapnificent], [Mapumental] and [Yelp].

Agile

Bunch was managed, designed and built using agile methodologies.

  • Before any code was written, we sketched out the full roadmap using Trello and Google docs.
  • We determined our MVP and prioritised tasks to achieve it within the first three days.
  • We held standups at the beginning and end of every day to discuss issues and adjust the roadmap.
  • We pair-programmed at all times, with the team's odd number allowing for a trio or a roving member as required. Pairs were changed regularly to maximise code understanding.
  • We used Github for version control, using multiple branches and merging regularly to minimise conflicts.
  • We ended every day with a short refactoring session to keep the code clean.

Next steps

With further development time we would add the following features to Bunch:

  • Implement our own database of public transport journey times, to be able to calculate midpoints for multiple addresses without maxing out API rate limits.
  • Add user accounts, with the ability to save friends' addresses, phone numbers and emails.
  • Incorporate Foursquare check-in data to better filter venue results for each user.
  • Extend coverage to other cities in the UK and beyond.

How to run tests

git clone https://github.com/thejennywang/bunch.git
cd bunch
rspec
cucumber
open spec/jasmine/specrunner.html

[Makers Academy]:http://www.makersacademy.com/ [Google Maps Distance Matrix API]:https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/distancematrix/ [gmaps.js]:http://hpneo.github.io/gmaps/ [Foursquare]:https://developer.foursquare.com/ [Google Maps APIs]:https://developers.google.com/maps/ [TfL]:https://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/ [TransportAPI]:http://transportapi.com/ [Mapnificent]:http://www.mapnificent.net/ [Mapumental]:https://mapumental.com/ [Yelp]:http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation

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