This Ruby on Rails application primarily serves the following purposes:
- Is an online car dealership platform (that is deployed to Heroku and used in production for a friend's car brokerage business)
- Is a platform for me to develop and demonstrate my Ruby on Rails coding skills
This application is using:
- Ruby 2.3.x (MRI, not JRuby or Rubinius)
- Rails 5.x
This application is developed and tested with the following:
- PostgreSQL 9.x
This application has been designed to be deployed to Heroku (primarily through using the rails_12factor gem). It should not be difficult to deploy this to other environments, as no specific Heroku calls are made...although several Heroku add-ons (Rollbar, New Relic, etc) have been utilized along with their corresponding gems.
I have intentionally crafted this codebase to offer the website owner the following benefits:
- Relatively simple Ruby on Rails application that should be supportable by most "Rails developers". In particular I have not included much in the way of client side JavaScript (AngularJS in particular), because that is not yet a ubiquitous skillset. I do not want to be the "single point of failure" for maintenance of this website and thus am trying to keep everything well-tested and straightforward.
- Up-to-date dependencies. Since the corresponding website is expected to be a dependable part of the website owner's business, I intend to keep all the associated technologies (including the Ruby and Rails versions) updated regularly. This tends to be easier when there are fewer gems and complications in the codebase.
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