Reviews

Straightforward review/rating facility

Please see TODO file

Installation

To use the last stable gem release of spree_reviews, add the following to your Gemfile:

gem 'spree_reviews'

If you'd rather install the latest version with fixes and improvements that have not yet been published to RubyGems, install from git:

gem 'spree_reviews', :git => 'git://github.com/spree/spree_reviews.git'

Now bundle up with:

bundle

Next, run the rake task that copies the necessary migrations and assets to your project:

rails g spree_reviews:install

And finish with a migrate:

rake db:migrate

Now you should be able to boot up your server with:

rails s

That's all!

Usage

Action "submit" in "reviews" controller - goes to review entry form

Users must be logged in to submit a review

Three partials:

• ./app/views/products/_rating.html.erb -- display number of stars
• ./app/views/products/_shortrating.html.erb -- shorter version of above
• ./app/views/products/_review.html.erb -- display a single review

Administrator can edit and/or approve and/or delete reviews.

Implementation

reviews table is quite obvious - and note the "approved" flag which is for the administrator to update

ratings table holds current fractional value - avoids frequent recalc...

Discussion

Some points which might need modification in future:

• I don't track the actual user on a review (just their "screen name" at the time), but we may want to use this information to avoid duplicate reviews etc.

• Rating votes are tied to a review, to avoid spam. However: ratings are accepted whether or not the review is accepted. Perhaps they should only be counted when the review is approved.