astikanand / course-finder

A ruby-on-rails web application to find the courses from Coursera using course keyword. It makes use of REst web services provided by Coursera Api.

CourseFinder

A ruby-on-rails web application to find the courses from Coursera using course keyword.

Live

CourseFinder is live on https://course-finder-astikanand.herokuapp.com

Features

• User can search all the courses by providing just course keyword in search bar.
• Makes use of REst api provided by coursera from https://api.coursera.org/api/courses.v1
• Uses fields name, photoUrl and description provided by API.

Usage

• Just enter your course keyword in search bar and hit enter.
• You will get a list of courses for that particular search keyword.
• Click on that link and enjoy learning that course.

Requirements

ruby-2.3.3
rails-5.1.4

Installation

1. Download or clone the repository.

   $ git clone https://github.com/astikanand/course-finder.git
   

2. Install dependencies by going into the project directory and then

   $ cd course-finder
   $ bundle install
   

3. Open your browser and hit localhost:3000

Running Unit Tests

• Install PhantomJS (http://phantomjs.org/)

• Run the following inside your terminal:

  $ gem install rspec
  $ gem install selenium-webdriver
  $ gem install capybara
  $ gem install poltergeist

• Run the following in your terminal (right outside of spec dir):

  $ rspec

  or in better format

  $ rspec --format documentation

  to see the magic.

Headless mode

# Capybara.default_driver = :selenium
# Headless
Capybara.default_driver = :poltergeist

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