Belch is an social networking site inspired by Yelp that allows users to review places to eat in New York City. Design documents can be found here

Technologies

• PostgreSQL
• Ruby on Rails
• Javascript
• React & Redux
• Amazon S3
• Google maps API

Features

• User Authentication
• Business Page
• Search

User Authentication

• Users have the option of creating an acount, logging in with an existing account or browse as a demo user.

Business Page

• The business page makes use of the Google maps API and shows a pin on the location of the business.
• Each business has a series of photos showing what the food and experience is like. These photos are being hosted by Amazon S3
• Reviews of the business are shown with the users name, their rating, and date the review was created.

Search

• The search feature is based off business price range and categories.
• The categories are set on the Rails backend using the categories and the categories_businesses table.
• The categories_businessestable joins the categories and businesses tables.

Reviews

• The reviews form makes use of Amazon S3 and allows users to post an image to go along with their written review.
• Logged in users are able to leave a review and rating (1-5 stars) on a business.