Rails Engine

By Deonte Cooper

Objective

I used Rails and ActiveRecord to build a JSON API, which exposes the SalesEngine data schema. I also learned how to to build Single-Responsibility controllers to provide a well-designed and versioned API, how to use controller tests to drive my design, and used Ruby and ActiveRecord to perform more complicated business intelligence. This is a solo student project from Turing School of Software & Design as part of the Module 3 backend engineering curriculum. The purpose of this project was to take CSV file data from an ecommerce site and use Rails and ActiveRecord to build a JSON API which exposes the data schema. View the original assignment here

Learning Goals

• Learn how to to build Single-Responsibility controllers to provide a well-designed and versioned API.
• Learn how to use controller tests to drive your design.
• Use Ruby and ActiveRecord to perform more complicated business intelligence.
• API will be compliant to the JSON API spec. Documentation

Built With

• Rails 5.1.7 - Web Framework
• PostgreSQL 11.1 - Database Management System
• Fast JSON API - JSON API Serializer for Ruby Objects

Installing

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

• From your terminal, clone the repo: git clone git@github.com:djc00p/Rales_Engine.git
• If you do not have PostgreSQL, follow the steps to setup PostgreSQL here
• Move to the new project directory: cd sales_engine
• Install required gems by running: bundle exec install
• Setup the database by running: rake db:{create,migrate}
• Seed the database with CSV data with: rake import:all

Testing

RSpec was used for testing. Test coverage was tracked with SimpleCov.

• To run tests, from the root directory, run: bundle exec rspec