VacationCaster scans airbnb for last minute cancellations

VacationCaster helps AirBnB guests by finding them potential deals from hosts who are dealing with potentially lost revenue. The goal of this project is to bring aspects of yield management to the vacation rental marketplace.

The heavy lifting of finding last minute cancellations is handled by background jobs. Background jobs and scheduling jobs are handled by resque and resque-scheduler, respectively. User, search, and AirBnB data is persisted with Postgres.

##Getting Started

1. Start Postgres and Redis
2. run bundle install to install gems
3. run rake db:migrate to set up Postgres
4. run rake db:seed to get some users, and a search of Kingman, AZ.
5. run rake resque:scheduler to process schedules
6. run rake resque:work QUEUE=* to run background jobs
7. run rails s to start the server. 8. When testing the bookmarklet, use thin start --ssl -p 3000 to enable https.

##Production

1. Deploy to Heroku.
2. Install the Redis To Go, and SendGrid addons.
3. Run heroku run rake db:migrate to get the DB serviceable.
4. Scale workers as needed.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request