davidjconnolly / justask

A simple, open source survey engine.

Justask

Staging Environment

In just about every software problem I've encountered, I always see room for improvement in quickly gathering feedback on or answering a set of questions about a new product feature. I thought it would be fun to make a basic survey tool to help solve this problem as well as provide a test bed for several technologies I've been wanting to explore.

Proposed Stack

• Rails 4 backend
• Postageapp to e-mail out surveys
• Store questions/responses in schemaless JSON columns in Postgres 9.4 to allow the question types to be easily stored/extended while being fast enough to do analytics
• Admin Frontend
  • Start with a straight HAML/Bootstrap/JS then enhance it to use Angular.js
  • TBD dashboard library to view responses
• Survey User Frontend
  • jQuery Mobile to provide a simple UI that can be viewed on any device

Configuration Steps:

1. Create config/database.yml
2. Configure /config/deploy/ enviroments

justask's Issues

Implement User Authentication

• Implement User Authentication on Admin page

Build Survey User UI

• Implement basic jQuery mobile front end
• Allow a user to answer any of the basic question types for a given Survey:
  • agree_scale
  • checkbox
  • multiple_choice_dropdown
  • multiple_choice_radio
  • text

Enhance Admin Survey UI

• Allow users to change the order of Surveys, Pages, Questeions
• Add clearer divisions between the 3 objects types

Add Projects

• Users are associated with multiple projects and vice versa
• Each Survey can have one and only one Project
• Surveys can be copied to/from other projects

Implement Dashboard

• Ability to see a dashboard showing useful information about Surveys within a given Project & Overall for the currently logged in user
• Potential KPI's:
  • Response rate
  • Number/type of questions asked per Survey
  • Number of pages/questions completed
  • TBD?

Implement Travis CI

Implement Travis CI on the github repo

Implement Postageapp

• Ability to instantiate a new survey for a survey user using an auto generated hash sent out to each e-mail recipient
• Ability to send out e-mails and track user responses to surveys
• Ability to initiate e-mails from Admin, for a given project/survey

Implement basic questions/response functionality

Implement question/response models and controllers for basic question types:

• agree_scale
• checkbox
• multiple_choice_dropdown
• multiple_choice_radio
• text

Enhance Admin Functionality

• Screen for user management
• Different user roles
• Screen for project management