yifeiwu / matenalavo

A free classifieds website for Fiji

#Mate Na Lavo - A Free Classifieds Ad Platform

The goal of the application is to allow users to post ads and to be able to query relevant ones

##Main Features

1. Allows free posting of ads with picture upload
2. Index and allow searching of ads uploaded from additional local sources

###Built with

• Bootstrap
• JQuery
• PostgreSQL
• Rails 4
• Heroku

###Gems

• Filterrific(Filtering and sorting)
• Kaminari(Pagination)
• pg-search(Full Text Searching)
• Nokogiri(For ad aggregation)
• Carrierwave/Cloudinary(Pic uploads and hosting)
• Algolia search

####A live demo of this project can be seen here https://matenalavo.herokuapp.com/

####Known limitations Need intelligent parsing of ads from local sources.

####Misc Notes Daily_jobs rake tasks to refresh the db.