README

Project Description

In this group project, Little Shop, our team worked on building an E-Commerce application using service-oriented architecture, where the back and front ends are separate and communicate via APIs.

System Dependencies and Tools

• Ruby version: 3.2.2
• Rails: 7.4.x
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Additional Gems: pry, debug, simplecov, rspec-rails, shoulda-matchers, faker, factory_bot
• Testing/Sending HTTP requests: Postman

Essential Setup and Development Commands

• Configuration: rails new little_shop -T -d="postgresql" --api
• Database initialization: rails db:create db:migrate db:seed db:schema:dump
• Run the test suite: bundle exec rspec
• Run your development server: rails s

Learning Goals

• Use ActiveRecord and SQL to write queries that deal with one-to-many database relationships
• Expose API endpoints to CRUD database resources
• Validate models and handle sad paths for invalid data input
• Test both happy and sad path functionality based on JSON contracts
• Use MVC to organize code effectively, limiting data logic in controllers and serializers
• Time Management
• Breaking down large projects into small pieces
• Breaking down a problem into small steps
• Practice individual research (reading documentation, articles, videos, mentors)

Contributors

Candice Cirbo https://github.com/CCirbo
Lito Croy https://github.com/litobot
Jim Macur https://github.com/jimmacur
Melchor De La Rosa https://github.com/MDelarosa1993
Terra Manning https://github.com/TDManning