Welcome to part II of Juggernaut Rails chat tutorial. Today we will create a design for our project.

First of all: name. "Ruby on Rails Juggernaut Chat" is slightly to long. So I've decided to use first letters of "long name": RoR J Ch and I've came up with some ideas:

  • Chatror - Chat on RoR
  • Hathor - Egyptian goddess of the sky
  • Racer - Ruby on rails ChattER

I've chosen last one - so our chat will be called "Racer".

I have also created a logo - it should be connected with cars/races (racer) and also with Rails :) - 30 minutes with Gimp and here it is:

racer_logo

So, we have name nad logotype but we still need major chat design.

What do we need?

  • Chat ;)
  • Registration form
  • Sign in form
  • Room list
  • Our chat room
  • Users list
  • Message input field

20 more minutes and we have our layout:

racer_layout

Tutorial parts:

  1. Juggernaut Rails Chat – part I (what is and how to install Juggernaut)
  2. Juggernaut Rails Chat – part II (design)
  3. Juggernaut Rails Chat – part III (registration and authentication)
  4. Juggernaut Rails Chat – część IV (zarządzanie pokojami)
  5. Juggernaut Rails Chat – część V (łączenie użytkowników z pokojami)
  6. Juggernaut Rails Chat – część VI (odpalamy Juggernaut i nasz chat)
  7. Juggernaut Rails Chat – część VII (emotikonki i dźwięk)