CareerFoundry Mentors

This is the tech challenge for careerFoundy back-end position.

• It's developed using ruby on rails in the back-end and a react in the front-end
• Please note that I had no prior experience in rails but I thought it will be fun to do the task in ruby on rails and I'll learn new things, and it was really great because I didn't know how much easy it's compared to other frameworks but it took me a while to wrap my head around the short-hand abstractions 😃

Demo

you can check online Demo on Heruko

• for quick login:
  • Email: engahmedabdelsalam918@gmail.com
  • Password: test123

Installation

Installing all gems

$ bundle install

Installing npm packages

$ yarn add

if creating new database rails db:create first

$ rails db:migrate

initial demo data - you can skip it if no need

$ rails db:seed

check config\database.yml for setting up the database credentials or changing db driver - this project built using Postgresql

run server

$ rails s

Project Structure

Models

• created 3 models
  • Student model which serves as a devise model that need an authentication system
  • Mentor model for storing mentors details
  • Call model which contains the meeting schedule details and it has a blenogs_to relationship with the Mentor & the Student

Server Side Rendering

• Copied HTML structure from the careerFoundry website
  • added partial templates for header and footer
  • updated devise views for sign_in, sign_up, etc ...

Client Side Rendering

• Used React for the main pages which only render after authentication
  • react pages all under the parent link /app served by react-router
  • create three main pages
    • /app/mentors for selecting a mentor and schedule a meeting with him
    • /app/agenda for indexing all the scheduled meetings for my cuurent account
    • /app/calendar the main page for creating new meeting and show reserved meetings

Endpoints

• created namespace /api/v1 to serve JSON content for the react app
• merged data coming from the external API with the meetings saved locally to show all reserved time slots for each mentor
• CRUD operations for the meetings with taking consideration of deleting only future meeting
• When a meeting created it can't be created again

TODO

• refine the testing suite
• enhance front end and styling
• use RVM

Configuration

• Ruby version 2.7.1
• Rails version 6.0.3.6