A few years ago, I wrote an incomplete Java swing desktop app for a school assignment that spanned throughout my software design and architecture course. Although I learned how to use the swing GUI framework and database interaction with MySQL, it was left with bugs and I was therefore not pleased with its state. I also did not enjoy writing in Java while in college due to how heavy, verbose and religiously insistent on OOP it was, making it a dull language to work with. However, I left it alone for the past few years until recently when I decided to revisit ruby on rails. I felt that Ruby on Rails convention over configuration philosophy presented a perfect opportunity for me to change from Java to Ruby as a third language. Therefore, I decided to redo my bookstore IMS into a more useful, complete app that can also be deployed to production for others to try out.

Although this app was mostly meant to replace an old, unpolished school project with a complete, robust app, I do have a couple more plans in mind for the forseeable future.

• User profile pictures: Add your own picture for your page.
• Export as CSV: Export CSV file of list to share with others, keep track of books elsewhere etc.
• Link to book: Link to site where you plan to buy a book