Food Coordination System: Build a Web Application with Ruby on Rails and SQLite

🎉 Welcome to the Team! 🎉

This isn't a boot camp. It's not a course.

Join us in the "🏢│Software Engineering" channel of our Discord server for an ongoing, real-world web development project – You're invited to join the team!

Ever wonder what it's like to join an existing software development team and jump into real code? Now is your chance. This isn't just a tutorial. It's a real project – already in motion – and you're joining the team!

✅ You'll join a real, ongoing project
✅ You'll work in a team environment
✅ You'll learn modern tools (Git, GitHub, Figma, Jira, etc.)
✅ You'll build with Ruby (and related tools)
✅ You'll grow based on the tier you join

🛠 What You'll Be Doing

We're building a food coordination platform that connects local restaurants and food providers to elementary, middle, and high schools – helping provide healthier meal options for students and growth opportunities for local food businesses.

You'll collaborate with developers of all levels on a mission-driven project that handles real-world logistics: meal sourcing, menu planning, business onboarding, and delivery coordination – all through a scalable web system powered by Ruby.

We're using:

• Ruby as our core backend language
• Ruby on Rails
• ERB templating for HTML rendering
• SQLite as our relational database
• Stimulus/Hotwire or JS integrations for interactivity where needed

Together, we'll be:

• Designing systems that allow local food businesses to register and offer meals
• Building tools for schools to plan, schedule, and customize weekly menus
• Coordinating delivery logistics and filtering based on school needs and allergies
• Creating dashboards for schools, providers, and admins
• Deploying updates, refactoring systems, and writing scalable, maintainable code

Just like on a real software development team.

🖼 Why This is Different

Most events are tutorials. This one is a real project that you can jump into and shape. You'll experience how it feels to collaborate, contribute to a live codebase, and see your work go live.

👥 Who Should Join

• Beginners looking for practical Ruby experience
• Intermediate developers wanting to work on a social-impact product
• Developers familiar with other languages who want to learn Ruby in the wild
• Anyone who wants to simulate real-world full-stack experience with a mission-driven project

🎓 What You'll Learn

• Git, GitHub, pull requests, and real collaboration
• Ruby syntax, OOP principles, and Rails-like architecture
• Building real-world CRUD apps with PostgreSQL
• Authentication and multi-role permissions
• Deployment workflows and system architecture
• Working on a mission-driven product that can make an impact
• SO MUCH MORE!

If you're interested in getting hands-on experience building real-world projects on a real team, sign up for a free trial on Patreon or just join the session as an observer to see what we're all about!