Portfolio: Filespace
- Technology: Ruby on Rails
- My responsibilities: Programming, Markup & Style, Interface
- Status: Ongoing
- Date: 2006-Present
At Dunwoody we often need to exchange large files with clients. Email attachments are insufficient and trying to explain the intricacies of FTP to a client can be tricky!
As a solution to this problem, I wrote a web application using Ruby on Rails to which project managers can upload files. Clients are then provided with a username and password in order to access their files. They can also upload files for the projects managers to collect.
I wrote all of the application code myself but a comp of how the general layout should look was provided by a designer. The application is deployed with Mongrel.
Screenshots
Users can be created with different privileges.
When uploading files, you get progress updates so you know how long it’s likely to take.
Multiple files can be downloaded in a zip folder.