During the Iron Yard's engineering bootcamp, we had an internal hack-a-thon to put the skills we had learned to the test. Each team consisted of a Rails developer, two front-end engineers and an iOS developer, and were then assigned one of three application ideas. My team were to develop an iOS game where a user would take a picture of a cloud, input what it looked like to them, and send it to their friends to have them guess what they saw. Players would earn points for guessing the same as their friends.

I took charge of designing the backend database and overall function of the application, through setting up a Rails API to interact with the iOS application with JSON. Unfortunately, our iOS team member had to withdraw from the competition on the second day, so I had to convert everything back to a web based application. My two front end team members really stepped up in designing the views for the application, on top of their work on the logo and other design features.

Tech and tools used:
Ruby on Rails, HAML, Javascript, jQuery, Semantic UI, AJAX, OmniAuth, Pocket API, AlchemyAPI, PostgreSQL, pg search
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