RARE NY - Resources for Artists Everywhere, NY

By Adam Shaw

Resources for Artists Everywhere looks to offer artists a space to communicate and share resources.

Technologies Used

• Backend: Ruby on Rails, Postgresql
• Frontend: React, Redux, React

Description

Rare NY, is a resource app for visual artist with a current geographical focus on New York City. Users are required to create and sign in with an account. Once a user is logged in they have several ways to interact with the app including:

Browsing the Listings section

• See listings and filter/search for listings in several different ways
• Learn more about a specific listings, and scroll through a carousel of images
• Post their own listings with images, stored with Cloudinary
• Listings posted by a user can be instantly re-accessed through a users profile page, and removed if necessary

Participate in the blog section to learn more about different arts topics or ask arts related questions

• Users can post new subforums within preexiting forum sections
• Post within a subforum topic
• Comment on a post within a subforum
• Users can remove their individual posts from a subforum

Find artist resources

• Interact with an SVG map of New York City's five boroughs
• Navaigating to a specific borough shows resoureces within that borough with information about each resource
• Resources include places such as fabrication businesses, art supply stores, and more!

See other artists who particpate in the app

• Once a user/artist is logged in their profile information is stored on an artist page with all artists from the app
• A user/artist can see more information about other artists with links to their individual sites

Profile page

• Users can see their profile information and all the ways they have participated in the app
• Users can edit and update their profile information
• Users can navigate to the places they have partipated in the blog
• User can navaigate to the listings they have posted

Prerequisites

Before you continue, ensure you have met the following requirements:

You have installed the latest version of Ruby and Ruby on Rails You have a local PostgreSQL server You have installed the latest version of npm

Setup/Installation Requirements

• Download or clone repository
• Install dependencies:
  • From backend directory, run bundle install in console
  • From frontend/client directory, run npm install in console
• If app doesn't automatically open in your browser, go to localhost:4000 to view the app

Copyright (c) 2022 Adam Shaw