Jungle

A mini e-commerce application built with Rails 4.2 for purposes of learning Rails by instructor lead examples.

Functions

Jungle is a shopping website where a user, regardless if logged in or not, can add items to their cart and purchase the item using a stripe payments system

Learning Outcomes

• Become familiar with Ruby and the Rails framework
• Learn how to navigate an existing code-base
• Use existing code style and approach to implement new features in unfamiliar territory
• Apply previous learning tactics to research and become familiar with a new paradigm, language and framework
• Implement feature and bug-fix request solution and automated testing

Final Product

Setup

1. Run bundle install to install dependencies
2. Create config/database.yml by copying config/database.example.yml
3. Create config/secrets.yml by copying config/secrets.example.yml
4. Run bin/rake db:reset to create, load and seed db
5. Create .env file based on .env.example
6. Sign up for a Stripe account
7. Put Stripe (test) keys into appropriate .env vars
8. Run bin/rails s -b 0.0.0.0 to start the server

Stripe Testing

Use Credit Card # 4111 1111 1111 1111 for testing success scenarios.

More information in their docs: https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards

Dependencies

• Rails 4.2 Rails Guide
• PostgreSQL 9.x
• Stripe
• Capybara & Poltergeist