Quant A&M
A Rails application for a quantum computing club, built test-first and shipped through CI to 300+ members.
- Type
- Artifact
- Where
- Texas A&M
- When
- Jan 2024 → Apr 2024
- Duration
- 3 mo
- Status
- Shipped
- Source
- GitHub
The problem
The club was running membership, events and resources out of spreadsheets and group chats. It needed an actual application, and it needed to survive being handed to whoever ran the club next year.
What I built
Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL, containerised with Docker so a new maintainer gets a working environment without a day of setup.
Test-first with RSpec — not because the domain was risky, but because the handover was. A suite that runs on every push is the only documentation that can't go stale.
GitHub Actions runs the tests and deploys to Heroku; project workflow tracked in Jira on an Agile cadence.
Screens
Results
- Reached 300+ users inside the club.
- Full RSpec suite gating every deployment.
- Containerised so onboarding a new maintainer is a clone and a compose command.
Architecture
In hindsight
I wrote model tests thoroughly and request specs barely at all, so the suite caught logic errors and missed routing and permission mistakes — which were exactly the ones users hit.