ABOUT RIDESHARE
RideShare aims to provide a cheap and secure ride sharing platform for students to commute between school, home, restaurants and grocery markets. When it is dark and cold outside and uber costs at least ten dollars to go anywhere, our free platform enables students to get a affordable ride from their schoolmates. Students who live off campus and do not have a car but want to commute in a more comfortable way should consider use this web application.
FEATURES
Raising the Bar
RUBY ON RAILS
We used ruby on rails as the framework for our application. Besides basic functionalities, we also included ActionCable to send notification from server to clients, ActiveJob to schedule database cleanup jobs and ActiveStorage to manage user avatars.
GOOGLE MAPS API
As an application dealing with transportation, querying and retrieving geo data is one of the major functionalities that need to be included in our application. We used google maps API to achieve such functionalities.
TWILIO
Twilio is cloud communications platform that allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and perform other communication functions using its web service APIs.