Little Esty Shop

Background and Description

"Little Esty Shop," is a Mod 2 group project at the Turing School of Software and Design, by Ted Staros, Chaz Simons, Billy Frey, and Lesley Sanders. It is modeled after e-commerce platforms where merchants and admins can manage inventory and fulfill customer invoices.

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

Project Requirements

• Rails 5.2.x
• PostgreSQL
• Code must be tested via feature tests and model tests, respectively
• Utilize GitHub branching, team code reviews via GitHub comments, and github projects to track progress on user stories
• Include a thorough README to describe the project
• Deploy completed code to Heroku

Setup

This project requires Ruby 2.7.2.

• Fork this repository
• Clone your fork
• From the command line, install gems and set up your DB:
  • bundle
  • rails db:drop db:create db:migrate
  • rails csv_load:all
• Run the test suite with bundle exec rspec.
• Run your development server with rails s to see the app in action.

Testing

Our project utilizes the Rails application database to streamline testing. From the command-line, run 'rails csv_load:all' to populate the database. Our project uses RSpec as the testing framework.

Contributers

• Ted Staros
• Chaz Simons
• Billy Frey
• Lesley Sanders