As of May 2023, this project has been archived/retired from Rails 5. Please find and use the Rails 7/Ruby 3 project here.
"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.
- 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
- must use Rails 5.2.x
- must use PostgreSQL
- all code must be tested via feature tests and model tests, respectively
- must use GitHub branching, team code reviews via GitHub PR comments, and either GitHub Projects or a project management tool of your group's choice (Trello, Notion, etc.)
- must include a thorough README to describe the project
- README should include a basic description of the project, a summary of the work completed, and some ideas for a potential contributor to work on/refactor next. Also include the names and GitHub links of all student contributors on your project.
- must deploy completed code to Heroku
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment is not allowed
- Use of scaffolding is not allowed
- Any gems added to the project must be approved by an instructor
This project requires Ruby 2.7.4.
- Fork this repository
- Clone your fork
- From the command line, install gems and set up your DB:
bundlerails db:create
- Run the test suite with
bundle exec rspec. - Run your development server with
rails sto see the app in action.