I created this app for my father, who enjoys wine but also likes a good deal. I was inspired after speaking with someone at Ruby YEG who had developed a social media aggregator.
Notable technology:
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Nokogiri for scraping liquor store websites
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Cloudinary for automatically generating jpeg thumbnails from PDF sale flyers
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Sidekiq and Sidetiq for generating new sales on a recurring basis
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Unicorn for running a Sidekiq worker using only 1 dyno on Heroku
Things I learned from this project:
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This was my first time seeing Nokogiri. After learning how to use it, I feel like it really opens up the amount of projects I can take on.
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I'm a big fan of automation, so using Cloudinary and Sidetiq was especially interesting to me. I'm glad I learned how to use these tools, as I'll probably be needing them again.