nyc-bumblebees-2015/the-hive

##Welcome to The HIVE

The Hive is a social networking site where software developers can find other developers to collaborate on side projects with. It uses an in-app messaging system for smooth, fast communication and a geolocation search to find projects in your city or zip code. Users can also search for projects by language or framework.

##Team Members:

Anna Karingal

Alina Jahnes

Christine Schatz

Jason Guzik

##Live URL: Heroku

Installation

$ git clone [git-repo-url]
$ cd /the-hive
$ bundle
$ rake db:create
$ rake db:migrate
$ rake db:seed
$ rails s

##Technologies

• Rails - a powerful and flexible framework for Ruby applications
• jQuery UI - for our drop down, auto-complete menus
• RSpec - for testing of features, controllers, and models
• AJAX - for generating smoother results
• Mailboxer - a Ruby gem for streamlined in-app communication
• Google Geocoder API - an API that seamlessly records the latitude and longitude of any zip code or city
• Materialize - a responsive frontend framework

Trello

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Development

Want to contribute? Great! Feel free to create an issue or open a pull request!