sababhamidipati / little-esty-shop-discounts

Little Esty Shop Discounts

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.

Saba's 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
• Build out CRUD functionality for a many to many relationship
• Leverage explicit relationships to create additional ones where ActiveRecord use can be rationalized
• Use ActiveRecord to write queries that join multiple tables of data together
• Use MVC to organize code effectively, limiting the amount of logic included in views and controllers
• Validate models and handle sad paths for invalid data input
• Use flash messages to give feedback to the user
• Use partials in views
• Use within blocks in tests
• Track user stories using GitHub Projects
• Deploy an application to Heroku
• Develop functional knowledge to troubleshoot Heroku errors

Testing Coverage

Model Testing: 99.8% (Total Revenue calculation not tested in Discounts proj. as it is already tested in prior project: /models/invoice.rb) Feature Testing: 100%

Requirements

• 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 comments, and github projects to track progress on user stories
• must include a thorough README to describe the project
• must deploy completed code to Heroku

Setup

This project uses Ruby 2.7.4 and Rails 5.

• 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