Hi,
What you''re looking to build here is a fairly complicated web app with,
presumably, a lot of custom taxonomy (sorting things by area of business,
neighbourhood, etc) - a large, document-driven app. This is definitely
something you''d be better off using a framework like Rails for, rather
than
Wordpress. (Approximately 99% of WP nightmares, in my experience, come from
custom post types and the workarounds necessary to do things other than
your basic blogs; unless that theme does EXACTLY what you want, I would
predict a world of pain.)
That said, it sounds to me like a pretty big job, and I wouldn''t expect
to
be finished with it overnight, especially if it''s just you and your
computer on the job. There are undoubtedly loads of gems out there that
will speed things along, however - I will defer to the rest of this group
for suggestions, as I am fairly new to Rails myself.
James
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:10 AM, New Life
<vincentparkernew-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>wrote:
> I am thinking about building a Yelp clone for a large city in a
> developing country (my startup dream). Is there an existing Rails sample
> code base that I can use to start from, e.g., one where the standard Yelp
> features such as posting reviews, and searching for businesses based on
> location have been implemented?
>
> Because I have only coded for fun, my little coding experience has been
> limited to a social networking Rails 3.0 project that I did a couple of
> years ago. I love Rails and would like to continue to develop my Rails
> skills.
>
> I don''t want to start from scratch in this Yelp clone project.
> However, Googling "Yelp clone" returns only PHP packages. See
> http://goo.gl/0C9L0I . The most popular is a commercial WordPress theme.
> See http://www.geotheme.com/ . All of its features look very appealing.
> It looks like the fastest way to going live. But I have never done
> anything in PHP. Furthermore, I am skeptical of commercial ready-made
> solutions where I will probably not be able to customize its code to do
> exactly what I want. See disadvantages of using commercial packages at
> https://drupal.org/node/826684 . For example, I want to have
Yelp''s " Redo
> search when map moved " feature .
>
> WordPress makes things look too easy. I guess making a good Yelp clone
> cannot be that easy. Otherwise, someone else would have done it in that
> city. Actually, the city already has a number of business review sites.
> But they all suck. In a way, I am somewhat glad that it is not that easy.
> Otherwise, I would not have an opportunity to make a really outstanding
> Yelp clone with Rails. But time is of the essence. Hopefully, I can go
> live, and build up a good review database and name recognition before Yelp
> itself jumps into the city.
>
> Do you think Rails would be a good fit for this project as opposed to
> WordPress? Is there a free Rails sample project I should use as a starting
> point for this project to speed up development?
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
>
>
>
>
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