Showtime

[jamesdabbs]

Due on Mar 12 @ 10:00am Build a small but well-tested portion of a movie rental and streaming Rails app

Objectives

Learning Objectives

• Ensuring proper access controls to resources
• Writing tests to verify both functionality and security
• Familiarity with TDD'ing both high level features (/controllers) and units (/models)

  Performance Objectives

• Use cancancan to secure your app
• Use rspec, factory_girl, and spec helpers to TDD and build a robust spec suite

  Details

  Deliverables

A repo containing a Rails app with:

• Devise installed and configured
• a MoviesController with stream, checkout and checkin actions

  Requirements

• TDD it
• Running rspec should produce only passing specs

  Normal Mode

• "Streaming" or "checking out" can just return JSON with the movie title, description, etc.
• Users must be logged in to stream or checkout movies
• Users must be old enough to see the movie (based on their age and the movie's MPAA rating) to stream or check it out
• Users are only allowed to stream movies if their plan includes streaming
• Users are only allowed to check out a number of movies based on their plan
• There are tests verifying that the above features work
• Optional, but nice: install simplecov to verify your test coverage

  Hard Mode

Any of:

• Build out a view layer to interact with the controller (you may need to add other basic CRUD actions)
• Add a notion of "paid" accounts, and disallow viewing when the account is past due
• Set up TravisCI integration to check your tests and coverage

  Nightmare Mode

Any of:

• Pull movies from the Rotten Tomatoes API (e.g. recent releases)
• Integrate with e.g. Payola to take payments
• "stream" should send back a streaming response of e.g. the description