It’s been a great ride so far and we’re into the final phase of coding. So brace yourself, a lot of awesome work is underway.
In the past week, I was working on checking items off my bucket list #412. The first task I checked off was mail subscription. During GSoC, there are a lot of features that we’ve worked on. These features need to be made public to CircuitVerse’s user-base but currently, there is no way to send a custom email to the users. The flow that I came up in #423 and #419 is as follows.
User opens /custom_mail/new wherein the subject and body of custom mail can be added. The body is wysisyg.
Once saved, preview of the mail can be seen, from where the mail can either be sent or edited if required.
Since custom_mails, has its own separate model, custom emails can be saved and sent whenever required.
@project.count.improve Another PR that I worked on finishing was #414. This PR is meant for improving the view count of each project. It is based on the gem - ahoy. It is an event and visit based framework.
Event - An event records the occurrence of something. In ahoy, events can be registered simply using ahoy.track(“Something awesome just happened”). With each event, a visit is associated.
Visit - A visit marks the user visiting a particular webpage. Its uniqueness is decided on the basis of a number of factors such as - traffic source, location, web browser in use. The current_visit variable gives the present visit and associated information about it.
Other minor things I checked off the list were -
Add feature circuit button and update channel links #421
Week.next? In the coming week, I’ll be working on researching and proposing the deployment of branches to a pre-prod environment. It’ll make testing and shipping features super fast.
Written on August 5th, 2019 by Ankit Kataria