Cookbook app idea

Ok so I have an idea for a new project and this what I am going to try to do

Cookbook

Description: A digital cookbook to collect favorite recipes.


Functions: 

• Signed in users can add, edit, show and destroy their own recipes. Visitors can only show recipes.

• Recipes contains: Author, Picture, Title, Description, Ingredients, Quantities, Comments, Tags.

• Search functions + listings

• Possibility to mark the recipes you want to cook and get them to list nicely on a shopping list. Quantities of milk for example should be summarized.

• Shopping list can be downloaded somehow?

• The add-form for should be smart (propose ingredient name so that when you typ “mi” milk comes up as an alternative.

• Mobile-friendly?

• Nice layout and CSS-stylesheet

• Validations

First encounter with Ruby on Rails...

Yesterday I started working a bit with Ruby on rails. I followed this tutorial to set up a basic blog with Create, Read, Update, Destroy functionality. To make myself think and not just copy the tutorial I made a list of recipes instead of a blog.

I also added some validation features so that you cannot add recipes without title or description

Some thoughts so far:

There is a lot going on under the hood:

I am still kind of amazed how RoR can actually work. It seems that many times it just reads your mind?! The downside of this is that once I got stuck it was not as easy a PHP for example to just hardcode/comment out something/test and revise. For example partials, how can that work?!

I do not understand Ruby syntax that well:

I got stuck for an hour or so on a line of code that returned an error and tried everything until I understood that there was actual a typo in the tutorial. RoR is complex enough that if I am going to learn in I have to get more comfortable with ruby

Idea for project:

Got an idea on how to do a Cookbook with some cool functionalities.