Draw a Crowd
summary
Contextual Camouflage is an open-source Ruby on Rails gallery that actually collects geolocated, anonymous mental‑health reports and pipes them live onto a Leaflet map using ActionCable real-time updates. Built at Steel City Codefest then rewritten on Ruby 2.5 / Rails 5.2, it uses the HTML5 geolocation API (not IP), Geocoder, Materialize, Devise, Rails Admin, SSL via Let’s Encrypt, and a cookie anti-troll 24h guard; a Heroku one‑click deploy and a 75″ installed display in Pittsburgh prove the concept works.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Start
- 0:32BRITTANY MARTIN
- 1:25NORMA SKATES
- 2:415 BY 5 RUBY ON RAILS PODCAST CO-HOST
- 3:07The Contextual Camouflage Story
- 4:09Assembling the Avengers
- 4:59Mental Health Matters
- 6:34BROOKE
- 6:55JASON
- 7:26MICHAEL
- 7:48JOHN
- 8:24BRANDON
- 9:22RESOURCE PAGES
- 11:19DANIELLE GREAVES
- 14:28ActionCable in Production
- 17:08GitHub PROJECTS
- 22:25GALLERY INSTALLATION
- 26:34Takeaways
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