Goal: designing and implementing a simple website to display and interact with a files/folders hierarchy. There is no need for authentication or user management. Using a frontend framework like bootstrap or foundation would be cool.

features:

• main/root page is the top level of the hierarchy

• at each level in the hierarchy and for each level in the hierarchy:

• we should see a list of files and folders

• breadcrumb trail

• upload button / form to upload a new file

• each element (file/folder) should have a name, type (folder has only one type, you can use extension or content-type for files) and creation date

• show file size

• when clicking a folder, navigate to this folder and see its content (different page)

• when clicking a file, download it

• sort list by name, type, date or size (for files)

• displays the complete folders hierarchy to allow quick switch between folders (each folder is a link to its content)

requirements:

• sql storage of your choice

• folders and files hierarchy have to be stored in sql, file content in filesystem

• rails application

• tests or specs

• like a filesystem, file and folder names should be unique within a given parent

• rake task to generate an important number of folders and files with a depth of 8

• performance: page should be fast to to display (especially when displaying the complete folders hierarchy generated by rake task)

Import

You can import a file struct by importer task, You can define you PATH by IMPORT_PATH env variable

“‘ IMPORT_PATH=/foo rake importer “`