Little Esty Shop

Background and Description

"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.

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
• Design an Object Oriented Solution to a problem
• Practice algorithmic thinking
• Work in a group
• Use Pull Requests to collaborate among multiple partners

Requirements

• must use Rails 5.2.x
• must use PostgreSQL

Setup

This project requires Ruby 2.7.4.

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

Phases

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

Summary of work completed

• Create an application where a small business could manage their customer data and web page
• Create advanved routing techniques like namespace and resources
• Create tasks to load data from CSVs into our database
• Work with many to many and one to many relationships to create a normalized databas
• Create complex active record queries to extract specific information from our database

Potential Future Refactor

• Possibly utilize FactoryBot gem to create normalized test data across all test files

Authors 

Antonio King Hunt , Bobby Luly , Isaac Alter, Jade Stewart