Little Esty Shop

Archival Notice

As of May 2023, this project has been archived/retired from Rails 5. Please find and use the Rails 7/Ruby 3 project here.

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.

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

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 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

Setup

This project requires Ruby 2.7.4.

• 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