This application started out as a class project at UC Berkeley, and has become a passion of mine.
The mission of this website is to create an online hub for local fruit and vegetable growers - professionals and enthusiasts alike - to share their crops in real time. With enough participation, we hope to provide a forum for neighbors to trade surplus, exchange information, investigate the successes and failures of their community members, etc.
The site will use many of the social networking metaphors: such as the wall, friends, profile page, etc.. I also aim to create a reward and recognition system that allows community members to easily spot the more experienced, active, or outspoken members of the community.
I have begun to collect neighborhood data, and have hooked it into the Google maps javascript api (see the “My Neighborhood” page).
If you would like to help me with the project, please send a note to my profile and I’d be glad to add you as a collaborator.
I began development on this site over a year ago and development was not test driven. Am I proud of this? No. Is it a royal pain in the neck now that I’m looking to get back on the horse and work w/ it again? Yep. Over the next few months I will chip away… and some quality Rspec. Hopefully the app will be tighter, I can delete this section of the rdoc, I can rest easier, and all will be right with the world.