James, I was looking to do something similar and I ran into this. https://github.com/MBottjer/YelpClone
I am new to Ruby on rails too. Maybe we colloborate and learn to use this together. On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:30:49 AM UTC-8, James Turley wrote: > > Hi, > > What you're looking to build here is a fairly complicated web app with, > presumably, a lot of custom taxonomy (sorting things by area of business, > neighbourhood, etc) - a large, document-driven app. This is definitely > something you'd be better off using a framework like Rails for, rather than > Wordpress. (Approximately 99% of WP nightmares, in my experience, come from > custom post types and the workarounds necessary to do things other than > your basic blogs; unless that theme does EXACTLY what you want, I would > predict a world of pain.) > > That said, it sounds to me like a pretty big job, and I wouldn't expect to > be finished with it overnight, especially if it's just you and your > computer on the job. There are undoubtedly loads of gems out there that > will speed things along, however - I will defer to the rest of this group > for suggestions, as I am fairly new to Rails myself. > > James > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:10 AM, New Life <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I am thinking about building a Yelp clone for a large city in a >> developing country (my startup dream). Is there an existing Rails sample >> code base that I can use to start from, e.g., one where the standard Yelp >> features such as posting reviews, and searching for businesses based on >> location have been implemented? >> >> Because I have only coded for fun, my little coding experience has been >> limited to a social networking Rails 3.0 project that I did a couple of >> years ago. I love Rails and would like to continue to develop my Rails >> skills. >> >> I don't want to start from scratch in this Yelp clone project. >> However, Googling "Yelp clone" returns only PHP packages. See >> http://goo.gl/0C9L0I . The most popular is a commercial WordPress >> theme. See http://www.geotheme.com/ . All of its features look very >> appealing. It looks like the fastest way to going live. But I have never >> done anything in PHP. Furthermore, I am skeptical of commercial ready-made >> solutions where I will probably not be able to customize its code to do >> exactly what I want. See disadvantages of using commercial packages at >> https://drupal.org/node/826684 . For example, I want to have Yelp's " Redo >> search when map moved " feature . >> >> WordPress makes things look too easy. I guess making a good Yelp clone >> cannot be that easy. Otherwise, someone else would have done it in that >> city. Actually, the city already has a number of business review sites. >> But they all suck. In a way, I am somewhat glad that it is not that easy. >> Otherwise, I would not have an opportunity to make a really outstanding >> Yelp clone with Rails. But time is of the essence. Hopefully, I can go >> live, and build up a good review database and name recognition before Yelp >> itself jumps into the city. >> >> Do you think Rails would be a good fit for this project as opposed to >> WordPress? Is there a free Rails sample project I should use as a starting >> point for this project to speed up development? >> >> Thank you for your input. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/fbc07984-95ff-4627-8574-72f5d656cb3c%40googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/0c5ef281-4cc1-46e1-b73a-166e398ff356%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
