Little Shop: Myxology

A Turing School group project created with Rails.

We created an online application where visitors, registered users, merchants, and admins have a variety of interactions with our fictitious shop. Each user type has some degree of authentication and authorization on our site. A user must be registered before checking out, but a visitor can shop up to checkout without being registered. Merchants can fulfill orders according to their inventory. Admins have authorization to enable and disable a user, as well as upgrading or downgrading a user or merchant, along with other functionality.

Learning Goals

Advanced Rails routing (nested resources and namespacing)
Advanced ActiveRecord for calculating statistics
Average HTML/CSS layout and design for UX/UI
Session management and use of POROs for shopping cart
Authentication, Authorization, separation of user roles and permissions

Getting Started && Prerequisites

You will need Rails v 5.1.

gem install rails -v 5.1

Clone down this repo!

git clone https://github.com/cebarks/littleshop

Installing

From your terminal, navigate into the little_shop directory:

cd little_shop

Make sure your gemfile is up to date:

bundle
bundle update

Establish a database:

rake db:{drop,create,migrate,seed}

Start your server:

rails s

Open your browser (best functionality in Chrome).

localhost:3000

Welcome to our dev environment!

Running the tests

Your location should be the root directory of the project (little_shop).

From the command line run rspec (This can take a moment)

Green is passing. Red is failing.

We used rspec, capybara, and shoulda-matchers for testing. We also used FactoryBot and Faker gems.

Example of a feature test:

Example of a model test:

MVC

This project was a huge exploration into the M(odel) V(iew) C(ontroller) software architecture pattern. We also worked with namespacing routes and authorization and authentication.