Internal CRM*

* Real name obfuscated because of an NDA

Started in as a part of my work as Ruby developer, UI designer and tech lead for Speed & Function

Business role

An in-house document processing system that was successfully replacing a big part of manual work on “Franchise Disclosure Document” — legal documents necessary to open new franchises.

What it was about

A law firm based on the East coast, providing support for businesses in opening new franchises

An in-house document processing system and CRM, written fully with Rails, with no front-end framework. Data processing, access management, etc.

Challenges

  • some chaos in view partials & CSS
  • a little too complicated business logic in models

My responsibilities

I worked as a classic full-stack Ruby developer on this project

  • Adding responsiveness to legacy pages
  • Correcting web typography
  • Creating & deploying Ruby on Rails web apps from scratch
  • Creating service objects for performant filter search
  • Developing a home-grown CMS / admin area
  • Front-end develpment (HTML / CSS /JS)
  • Generating upsell proposals for current clients
  • Making heavy parts of web pages asyncronous via Ajax
  • Refactoring legacy code
  • Upgrading gems in legacy Rails projects
  • Videocalls with client’s team
  • Writing feature tests with Capybara
  • Writing unit tests with RSpec

Interesting things I did on this project

  • Mentoring junior developers
  • Preparing solution engineering proposals for incoming projects
  • Replacing Datatables with HotWire
  • Rewriting clumsy legacy HTML into correct, consise, semantic HTML that looks beautiful even with no CSS
  • Rewriting controllers to reduce the number of SQL queries & lower DB utilization
  • Re-writing pages from ActionView partials to ViewComponent
  • Upgrading Rails from previous versions
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