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Make sure you have ruby, rails, and postgres installed in your system.
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In the project dir:
- create a .env file similar to the .env.example file in the project.
- run
rails db:create
to create the databases. - run
rails db:migrate
to create the tables. - run
rails db:seed
to populate some of the tables in order to get test data to work with.
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After following the steps above, running
rails server
you should be able to get the app running in your localhost on port3000
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navigate to the route
localhost:3000/graphiql
and you should be in a position to see the graphql playground view that will allow you to make various requests to ineract with the data.
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run customers query to get a list of customers and select one id. save the customer id selected somewhere
query { customers { id } }
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run currencies query to get a list of currencies. Select 2 is and save them somewhere.
query { currencies { id } }
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now run the transaction mutation to create a transaction record.
mutation { createTransaction(input: { customerId: "saved_customer_id", inputAmount: "15.34", inputCurrencyId: "first_saved_currency_id", outputCurrencyId: "second_saved_currency_id" }) { transaction { id customer { firstName lastName } inputAmount inputCurrency { isoCode } outputAmount outputCurrency { isoCode } createdAt } errors } }
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Following this you should now have a transaction record that you can access by first quering the transactions then querying the transaction with id with the transaction ID to get the single transaction