Little Esty Shop

About this Project

"Little Esty Shop" is a group project that requires students to build a fictitious e-commerce platform where merchants and admins can manage inventory and fulfill customer invoices

Timeframe: 9 days
Heroku: Little Rails Shop

Contributors

• Lawrence Whalen
  Github | LinkedIn
• Aliya Merali
  Github | LinkedIn
• Molly Krumholz
  Github | LinkedIn
• Sidarth Bagawandoss
  Github | LinkedIn

Learning Goals

• Practice designing a normalized database schema and defining model relationships
• Utilize advanced routing techniques including namespacing to organize and group like functionality together
• Utilize advanced active record techniques to perform complex database queries
• Practice consuming a public API while utilizing POROs as a way to apply OOP principles to organize code

Schema

Built With

• Ruby 2.7.2
• Rails 5.2.6
• ActiveRecord
• SQL
• RSpec
• Capybara
• Factory Bot
• GitHub API

Important Gems(Libraries):

• rspec-rails
• capybara
• shoulda-matchers
• faraday
• factory_bot_rails
• simplecov
• orderly

Getting Started

1. Fork and clone the repo
2. Install any missing gems from gem file
3. Install gem packages with bundle install
4. Run $ rails db:{create,migrate}
5. Run $ rake csv_load:all
6. From your terminal run $ rails s and navigate to http://localhost:3000/ in your browser to navigate the app

Testing

• RSpec and Capybara were used for unit and integration testing and project development adhered to TDD principles.
• Simplecov was used to track total test coverage.
• To run our test suite, RSpec, enter $ bundle exec rspec in the terminal.
• To see a coverage report enter $ open coverage/index.html

Phases

1. Database Setup
2. User Stories
3. Extensions
4. Evaluation

Additonal References

• Base Repository used for Turing's Backend Module 3.
• Github Documentation used for Github documentation.