Book Rreviews

Note

This is an example project to demonstrate my coding skills. It is not actively maintained.

Local Development Setup

Requirements

• Ruby 3+ (check .ruby-version)
• PostgreSQL 16+

App setup

After installing Ruby and PostgreSQL, follow these steps:

1. Run bundle install to install all necessary Gems;
2. Run bin/setup to prepare the database;
3. Run rake import:books to import some books from bigbookapi.com;
4. Run rake fake_data:users and rake fake_data:reviews if you want to create some users and reviews
5. Execute bin/dev to run the app locally.

Using Big Book API

This application integrates with the Big Book API to import books. To enable this feature:

1. Sign up for an API key at Big Book API;
2. Set the BIGBOOK_API_KEY environment variable in your shell or environment management tool.

App features

• Provides a list of books that users can search and browse.
• Users can read reviews of books.
• Registered users can leave reviews for books.
• Registered users can vote reviews.
• Users have a personal profile page where they can:
  • Edit their profile information.
  • View the reviews they have written.

Testing

Test the application with RSpec by running the command bundle exec rspec.

Screenshots

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