TestCrowd

A pre-crowdfunding platform, which I had formerly built in Drupal (2014).

objectives

Crowdfunding campaigners are able to try out their crowdfunding project and upload videos, images and text. Their supporters leave feedback in the form of star ratings, endorsements and comments. This is valuable for campaigners, as it helps them improve their campaign before they go live on their crowdfunding platform of choice.

technologies

Ruby on Rails 5.1
TDD: rspec / capybara / Factory Girl
user management: devise / pundit
Ajax
PostgreSQL

instructions

In order to set up a development environment and run the tests, these two database need to be present:

  ... $ psql
  ... =# CREATE DATABASE "testcrowd_test";
  ... =# CREATE DATABASE "testcrowd_development";
  ... =# \q

then generate the necessary database structure:

    ... $ rails db:migrate

make sure all gems are up to date and start the server:

	... $ bundle install
	... $ rails s

Go to your browser and you should see the site at http://localhost:3000 If not, check the port number in the command line.

specification

users can register, log in, log out and manage their own user data
users can determine whether they are logged in from the greeting message at the top, which contains their email address
two user groups: all users can leave ratings/reviews/endorsements, project owners can also create projects
every project has its own page containing name, description, list of reviews with reviewer name and ratings
project names must be at least three characters long, ratings must be between 1 and 5, reviews are optional
users can log in with Facebook

users who are logged in are able to:

see the project listings page with reviews, ratings and an add review link
create, edit and delete their own projects, but not those of other users. at present the status of a user can only be elevated manually to project owner, by setting the admin column in the database to 'true'
create and delete their own reviews, but not those of other users
add a review text and a numerical rating to a project, but not more than once
reviews can be endorsed

future development: