/phase-3-project-sinatra-backend

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phase-3-project-sinatra-backend

Group Name: The Icons Memebers

  1. Hafsa Nuh - Scram Master
  2. Dennis Muturi
  3. Beulah Mathenge

Github link: https://github.com/Beulah-Matt/phase-3-project-sinatra-backend

         : front-end https://github.com/hafsa-nuh/E-Commerce-

Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WhDjEp9l3l6LUlNj-c7CZr1zMDt_dRZDOxHSxbPTfbE/edit#slide=id.g70c71c87bd_0_763

The idea

We thought of doing an e-commerce site as it had the potential to leverage almost everything that we had learned during this phase. We built the database model with Sinatra for the API front and Active Record to query our database.

Models

We have 4 models, a Customer, Product, Category and an Order. Their relationships are as follows: A Customer has many orders and products, through orders. An Order has many Products and belongs to a Customer. A Category has many products and a Product belongs to a category. A Product also has many customers and orders. The link to all this was the Order class, linking a customer to products and products to customers.

End Points

After making our migrations and modelling the relatioships, we made API end points to these routes: -Customers -Products -Orders

This way, we can perform Sinatra CRUD operations on all three, linking them to our front end.

We additionally queried the database for a customer name and sorted products by categories.

Deployment

For this Project, we first had to install Postgres SQL as the database supported by our hosting service provider, Heroku. To install Postgres, we:

  1. install the Postgres package along with a -contrib package that adds some additional utilities and functionality: sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib
  2. Ensure that the service is started: sudo systemctl start postgresql.service
  3. switch over to the postgres account on your server by running the following command: sudo -i -u postgres
  4. You can create the appropriate database with the createdb command. createdb databaseName
  5. Once this new account is available, you can either switch over and connect to the database by running the following: sudo -i -u databaseName psql
  6. Then, we had to set postgress as our default db in our sinatra project by replacing the sqlite configuration development: adapter: postgresql encoding: unicode database: database_name pool: 2 username: your_username password: your_password production: adapter: postgresql encoding: unicode pool: 5 host: <%= ENV['DATABASE_HOST'] %> database: <%= ENV['DATABASE_NAME'] %> username: <%= ENV['DATABASE_USER'] %> password: <%= ENV['DATABASE_PASSWORD'] %>with this:
  7. Also added the postgres gem gem "pg" Hosting on Heroku
  8. Logged in into our Heroku account using Heroku login
  9. We then created a Heroku app from the directory of this project.
  10. After, we run all our migrations using heroku rake db:migrate db:seed
  11. Our backend is now deployed

Setting Up.

You can fork and clone this repo from here https://github.com/Beulah-Matt/phase-3-project-sinatra-backend. Next, run bundle install from the directory of this project to install all the gems and dependencies. To run the server:- bundle exec rake server, then explore these endpoints on your browser

Products : https://aqueous-castle-47869.herokuapp.com/products Customers: https://aqueous-castle-47869.herokuapp.com/customers Orders: https://aqueous-castle-47869.herokuapp.com/orders

You can also run bundle exec rake console to get into a pry session and explore the data.

Happy Hacking.