Book your flight now!
developed by Andrew Krueger, Ben White, Chris Boette
A flight reservation app set in the near future, facilitating permanent relocation and/or adventure-planning to a newly colonized Mars. Search flights, select amenities, and book your ticket!
Disclaimer: you cannot book an actual ticket
This project was built by students at MakerSquare, an immersive, ten-week web application development training course. The project was started for the second weekend hackathon and developed over the next three weeks.
####Technologies
#####Backend
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
#####Frontend
- Angular.js
- ZURB Foundation
- CSS3
- jQuery
- jQuery Knob
#####API's & Gems
- Mandrill for Action Mailer Removed
- Custom scraper for Mars weather collection
- ForecastIO
- Chart.js
#####To Do
- Replace Mandrill for Action Mailer
- Maths: calculating the distance & travel time using Kepler's Laws, Hohmann Transfer Orbit; adding and displaying the trip's total cost
- Incorporate Stripe for collecting payment
- Refactor: break the controllers into separate files; make use of templates
- Add a static 'About Us' page
- Make the animations at the end flow more smoothly