For my final Ruby on Rails project, I created an app for a small business that deals with building maintenance and small repairs in NYC.

Features

This app can track employees as they complete work orders:

• You can create work orders for each employee and assign tasks and an address where they will do the repairs.
• Employees can comment and reply in the work order. This is a nice feature in case you want to ask someone for an idea or you want to give a description to your boss of what was done.

• This app will also track the hours the employee works each day. They will be able to punch-in and punch-out.

• Employees and admins can login and logout.

• Only admin can create an account for an employee. Once an account is created, the employee can login with a username and password or Facebook single-sign on.

Lessons learned

I built this app for my school project but I'm planning to use it in real life. I have to learn more about security and I know it is risky to expose personal information with it. Before, when I used to visit a website like a bank, Home Depot or Facebook, I didn't pay too much attention to the details. Now I know there is a lot of security involve behind these website. I want to get more experience in authenticating and validating to protect the database of my apps.

Conclusion

It is clear to me that security in a website is everything, because a website that expose the users information is a broken website. I have to learn a lot about how to protect the users information and ruby on rails has a lot of tools for this.