Quentin Pongratz

About Me

My name is Quentin Pongratz. I am a self-taught web developer with a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in English, looking to transition into a career in the field.

Experience with:

Ruby
Ruby on Rails (Including Turbo and Stimulus)
Git
HTML
CSS
Javascript
SQL (Familiar with both SQLite and Postgresql)

Collected below are projects which showcase different aspects of my abilities (Not counting the html, css, and javascript on display on the site itself). I'm currently working on deepening my knowledge in JavasScript and plan to tackle React soon. Feel free to see more projects over at my github, or peruse my resume, and if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me at qpongratz@gmail.com.

Project Details

Spacebook

What is this?

A social media site modeled after basic facebook functionality and styling developed in Ruby on Rails.

What does it show?

MVC Architecture and the Rails use of convention over configuration
Turbo Frames and Turbo Streams for single page functionality for basic CRUD actions with posts, comments, and reactions
CSS organized with Sass use of nesting and separating out individual components
StimulusJS for reusable javascript elements
Actions secured from unintended or not-logged-in users with authentication through devise
Omniauth sign-in/sign-up with Facebook
After action callbacks to provide new users with pending friend requests
A number of tests (including systems tests) using Minitest and Capybara
Infinite pagination for main feed
Responsive design for mobile devices
Deployment on Heroku