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Paolocappelli

Over eight months, contributed to cedarcode/mi_carrera by designing and implementing a comprehensive user review and rating system, enhancing both backend and frontend functionality. Developed a Five-Star Review Component and introduced granular rating fields, integrating them into the Subject model with responsive UI updates. Focused on data integrity and maintainability through targeted refactors, improved test coverage, and streamlined database migrations. Leveraged Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and SCSS to deliver features such as unified review APIs, robust validation, and analytics-ready metrics. Regularly improved code readability and performance, ensuring stable, scalable workflows and laying groundwork for future enhancements across the codebase.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

78%Features

Repository Contributions

51Total
Bugs
4
Commits
51
Features
14
Lines of code
56,713
Activity Months8

Work History

May 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2026

Concise monthly summary for 2026-05 focused on cedarcode/mi_carrera. Delivered a targeted refactor of the voting check to improve readability and performance, with clear domain-aligned naming and a streamlined code path. This work reduces cognitive load for future contributors and lays groundwork for additional voting-related optimizations.

July 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 performance highlights for cedarcode/mi_carrera: Delivered targeted refactors and query cleanups to improve rating reliability, data correctness, and maintainability. Strengthened test coverage around rating flows and nil handling, enabling safer future changes and faster iteration on user-facing features.

June 2025

13 Commits • 2 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary for cedarcode/mi_carrera focusing on delivering a modern rating experience and code quality improvements. Key features delivered include a Five-Star Review Component with migration from the old rating system, plus a granular rating system (interesting_rating and credits_to_difficulty_rating) that integrates into the Subject show page via the FiveStarReviewComponent. Major code cleanups and maintainability work were completed, including refactors to improve readability, and UI/UX enhancements.

May 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 performance summary for cedarcode/mi_carrera focusing on delivering business value through UI improvements and backend refactors. The month shipped a reusable rating UI and updated the rating data model, aligning rating metrics with product goals and improving data capture for analytics and workflows.

February 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for cedarcode/mi_carrera: Delivered a unified Subject Ratings UI with integrated average rating and subject score, while preserving the interactive star rating for submitting/deleting reviews. Implemented responsive enhancements for small screens (max-width: 450px) to improve mobile UX. Managed regression by reverting the previous responsiveness fix to maintain stable UI behavior. The month also included a design refactor to simplify the subject ratings UI and set the stage for future improvements, with work concentrated on cedarcode/mi_carrera.

January 2025

18 Commits • 3 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 monthly summary for cedarcode/mi_carrera. Focused on delivering a cohesive subject-review experience, improving rating UX, and stabilizing the data model through targeted refactors and cleanup. Highlights include a unified Review API upsert flow with a renamed endpoint, rating UI enhancements for non-authenticated visibility and improved interaction, a robust average rating calculation and display with one-decimal precision, and a revert of prior average-rating storage to ensure data integrity, complemented by maintenance work to improve stability and performance.

November 2024

2 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024: Delivered end-to-end User Reviews and Ratings System for cedarcode/mi_carrera, enabling authenticated users to create, update, and delete ratings for subjects, with UI for submission and display and per-user view. Implemented backend reviews controller with authentication guards, routes, and test coverage; frontend UI for submitting/displaying subject ratings, per-user rating retrieval, and login prompt for unauthenticated users; styling improvements for rating components; two focused commits: 25c2fe909a712571e309e32c1c9cd18234963cfc (Create Reviews controller) and 9092a7167e9bf799ca3a1d7cc13f9fe27fe301a9 (Create reviews UI). The feature enables richer user feedback, fuels engagement analytics, and improves content quality by surfacing ratings alongside subjects; demonstrates full-stack capability across API design, authentication, testing, and responsive UI.

March 2024

7 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2024

March 2024: Implemented a robust Review and Rating system in cedarcode/mi_carrera, delivering data integrity and analytics-ready metrics while expanding test coverage. Key features include a new Review model with uniqueness and rating validations (plus a factory and tests) and a Subject average rating column with automatic recalculation on review create/delete (plus tests). Strengthened the testing framework with association and validation specs across domain models. Business impact includes improved quality, safer refactors, and faster feedback loops for feature development. Technologies demonstrated: Rails models, validations, associations; RSpec, FactoryBot, shoulda-matchers; TDD/CI readiness.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness91.0%
Maintainability91.0%
Architecture85.2%
Performance90.2%
AI Usage20.4%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSERBHTMLHTML ERBJavaScriptRubySCSSSQL

Technical Skills

API DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI TestingBackend DevelopmentCSSCode FormattingComponent DevelopmentDatabase IndexingDatabase ManagementDatabase MigrationDatabase OptimizationFactoryBotFront End DevelopmentFront-end DevelopmentFrontend Development

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

cedarcode/mi_carrera

Mar 2024 May 2026
8 Months active

Languages Used

RubyHTMLSCSSSQLCSSERBHTML ERBJavaScript

Technical Skills

FactoryBotRSpecRailsRuby on RailsTestingback end development