Cashback

Welcome to my Cashback project, you can see it working in heroku through here

Setup

Prerequisites

The setups steps expect following tools installed on the system.

• Github
• Ruby 2.7.0
• Rails 6.0.3
• psql (PostgreSQL) 10.12

1. Check out the repository

git clone git@github.com:Emerick94/Cashback.git

2. Create database.yml file

Copy the sample database.yml file and edit the database configuration as required.

cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml

3. Create and setup the database

Run the following commands to create and setup the database.

bundle install
bundle exec rake db:create
bundle exec rake db:setup

4. This updates your local cron for automatic status switch

whenever --update-crontab --set environment=development

5. Start the Rails server

You can start the rails server using the command given below.

bundle exec rails s

And now you can visit the site with the URL http://localhost:3000

Observations

Here you can read about some of what I did that wasn't part of the test requirements.

• small visual improvements to the admin interface (using bootstrap tables).

• Validations on rails and on the database, as a good practice.

• Authentication, it has a secure password using bcrypt. No page requires a user to be logged in

• the front has a counter that shows how many, if any, users clicked on an offer.

• flash messages showing errors when need and confirming user loggin. Javascript to close those flash messages not implemented

• Simple navbar showing a home, username if logged in, showing Log In and Sign Up options if not.

• Database system change from sqlite to psql, since psql is more robust, and works with heroku. It's good practice to use the same database system for development and production

• Logs, so I know how many offers have beem enabled/disabled in each hour.

• Join table create explicitely, with a model and validations, as a good practice.

• Deploy on heroku. Take me there