Recyclo: A web-app for promoting the interchange of recyclable waste

Introduction

This web-app allows people to create an account and publish recyclable waste for others in the vecinity to pass pick them up and make a profit.

Showcase

Some screenshots of this web-app:

User registration

Publishing a recyclabe resource

See the list of recyclable items

Technical description

This application is a web-based application based on the Ruby on Rails framework on it's version 4.1.9 and the PostgreSQL database. The version of Ruby recommended is ruby-2.3.0, Ruby is the programming language on which this web-based visualiser is written.

For deploying this application is enough to just follow the steps below:

1. Install the required gems using bundle install. You need to install also ImageMagick because it is used by the rmagick gem.
2. Configure your database settings as in any RoR app by going to database.yml.
3. Let rails create the specified database by running rake db:create and afterwards run the migration with rake db:migrate to create the tables needed.
4. You can run rake db:seed to start with some data already loaded in.
5. Go to views/shared/map and change the google maps API_KEY value to match yours
6. Run the app with rails s