MihaiLiviuCojocar/story_sentiment_analysis

Ruby

Objective

Create an application to display the following information about a company:

Company name
Stock ticker code
Stock price
The two most recent stories
The sentiment analysis of each story

Installation

Mac OS X

You will need a few things installed:

A Ruby package manager, like RVM.
MongoDB.
Bundler.

Download/copy/clone the repo.
In the terminal, change directory into 'tech_test':

cd tech_test
bundle install

Running the tests

Rspec (unit tests)

run rspec.

Cucumber (feature tests)

run cucumber.

Booting up the application

run rackup.
click here.

Technologies used

Ruby.
Sinatra.
MongoDB.
Rspec.
Cucumber.
HTML/CSS.
HAML.
Bootstrap.

Notes

Achievements

clean, maintainable code.
MVC design.
followed SOLID software design principles.
short and readable methods.
skinny controllers.
no logic in the views.
stubbed all api requests.

Things that can be improved

the UI, definitely.

Personal notes

this is a fun technical test.
it had many small problems to fix, which kept my interest going.
this is the most fun technical test that I've ever done.