Principal – Integrated Business Management

Posted on February 14, 2015May 30, 2015 by Robert Starsi

Integrated business management web app for a sales company with CRM features. The functionality this Rails app provides is extensive:

Management of distributor accounts across multiple countries.
Capture, edit and build lead portfolio.
Logging of phone calls, appointments and notes.
Management of orders.
Invoicing.
Integrated credit card payments (Stripe, MyGate).
Management of stock and its reordering.
Payouts and commissions.
Client support pages.
Product download, activation and update facilities.

For me, the most important part of this project is the extensive test suite that was developed from day one, which allows for all the integrated functionality to coexist in one, easy to manage and extend codebase; and rapid development and deployment of new features.

UI Tour

Leads overview. Leads can be added, edited, commented on, moved between different statutes, filtered and searched. (Note: these screenshots do not contain any real client information. This data is randomly generated for the purpose of this presentation.)

Logging and appointment. — Logging an appointment.

Logging a phone call with a lead. (Note: these screenshots do not contain any real client information. This data is randomly generated for the purpose of this presentation.) — Logging a call for a lead.

Rails stats

Lines of code, test coverage & other project stats. Almost 14 000 lines of code – this is one of the biggest projects I’ve created, developed and worked with in production. Despite the relatively large amount of code, I am extremely happy with how Rails handles a decent sized project like this, all in one integrated, business specific and complete codebase.

EQAFE – Ecommerce

Posted on January 2, 2013May 30, 2015 by Robert Starsi

This is one of the first projects where I started using Rails in production. EQAFE developed—over the years—from a simple checkout page to sell a single book to an ecommerce platform featuring thousands of products, affiliate program, gifts and more.

Deliverables:

UI design and implementation.
Backend design and implementation (Rails).
Automated test suite.
~4 years running in production (DevOps).

Tour

Front page provides an index of the latest products.

A lot of the functionality is neatly tucked away in the always accessible dropdown menus.

Rails stats

eqafe-code-stats — It’s interesting to observe how each project can have quite a different allocation of the amount of code. Here for example, test vise, most of the code is located in controller tests – this tells us a lot about the app itself – a lot of the control flow is located in the controllers, most of the interesting stuff happens there, like for example users are redirected to different locations depending on their starting point and actions.

DIP Lite: E-learning Platform

Posted on October 19, 2012May 30, 2015 by Robert Starsi

DIP Lite is a free e-learning platform. Its fully automated in-browser experience connects the users with a personally assigned “buddy”: an experienced person that overviews and assist the user throughout the course. The user walks the course on her own pace as well as engage in daily exercises, complete with email notifications and communication with the course buddy provided by the course platform.

For this project I delivered the following:

Initial design of the flow and functionality of the platform based on the goals set by the client.
Mockups of the UI and user flows.
Graphic design.
Logo creation.
Implementation within Rails.
Automated test suite.
Further feature development and updating/upkeep of the codebase.
Running this project in production for 3 years (DevOps).