This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot Challenge : New Beginnings
I built a label maker in ruby/rails to help automate the laborious task of writing names and addresses from a list to envelopes, if you want to do it the old fashion way and not electronically. Like holidays, thank you's, etc...
Demo -
List Home Page
Holiday Contact View
Labels to Print
My repo -
https://github.com/PamBWillenz/Label-Generator
Copilot Experience -
- I used a prompt to get an outline of my project - "I would like to build an app using Ruby, Rails that creates a list of contacts that have names and addresses so I can print labels. Can you give me steps?"
- I then asked copilot to recommend gems to use to print labels.
- I used chat with the file I wanted to edit, then I would incorporate the edits.
- I had an issue with my assets conflicting because I wanted to use bootstrap with simple_form. With Copilot's help I managed to figure out the conflicts and import bootstrap thru node modules vs directly from the gem.
- I used 3 different models.
- I used autocomplete and also used copilot to generate my tests and my seed file. I have used edits, which I love but did not use that today.
GitHub Models
- I started with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, then went to o1 Preview and used GPT 4o the most. When I continually got the same response or the model said I was out of prompts (o1 preview), I switched models. I especially did this when I was troubleshooting.
Conclusion
I feel like New Beginnings mean new ways to approach challenges. My husband and I had a list of more than 200 family and friends that we wanted to send holiday cards, and we had no way to get them in a format to print labels. I wrote all the labels by hand, both for the to: and from:. We can order labels for the from: but you can't do that for the to: so I wanted to automate the process.
I hope this can help others who want to automate their label list printing and use code to automate the process.
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