gRSSly is a lightweight, open-source RSS reader built by Gordy Lanza and Flo Stagliano. We built it in a week with Rails, Postgres, and Bootstrap.
- We wanted to deploy our first webapp, after a week of learning Rails.
- We like code that has a raison d'être. While gRSSly isn't the first RSS reader, it's a useful utility nonetheless.
- We aimed to stretch ourselves by implementing not just Rails, but unfamiliar tools like Postgres and Bootstrap as well.
- We wanted to make our app accessible by deploying it to the web.
- Rails/Postgres for back-end
- Rails/Bootstrap for front-end
- Deployed through Heroku
- RSS gem for parsing rss feeds
- To the Bootstrap diehards, please forgive us for our shameless misuse of the
.alertcomponent andflash[:errors]as a way to feed contextual information to users. - To our mentor @danielkaczmarczyk, please forgive us for our shameless
misuseabuse of emojis. We're just giving the people what they want. 😎 - We were hard-pressed to build and deploy our first app in a week. Known issues we did not have time to resolve are logged in the repo.
MIT © @gortron / @flow1981