Little Esty Shop Rails App

Links

GitHub Repository

Deployed on Heroku

Background and Description

"Little Esty Shop" is a project that required building a fictitious e-commerce platform where merchants and admins can manage inventory and fulfill customer invoices. Originally started as a group project, this version of the project is a complete refactor of the group project with added features.

Learning Accomplishments

• Designed a normalized database schema and organized model relationships
• Utilized advanced active record techniques to perform complex database queries
• Utilized advanced routing techniques including namespacing to organize and group like functionality together.
• Practice consuming a public API

Technology Used

• Rails 5.2.x
• Ruby 2.7.4
• PostgreSQL

Setup

To set up the app use the following steps:

1. Clone the repository.
2. Navigate your terminal to the root directory and run bundle install
3. Run rails db:{create,migrate}
4. To seed the database with data from the provided csv files, run the rake task rails csv_load:all
5. Run rails server to view the app in your brower at localhost:3000

Database Setup