Simple News App - Rails Competency Test

To get started please create a public github project called [yourname]-rails-competency-test] and carefully read the following instructions.

Commit all of the code to your project and email it to isaac@isaacsloan.com. May the force be with you.

User Personas

The project will have multiple roles that interact with each other.

• Guest (No Login)
• Vanilla Users (Logged in - No special role)
• Editor Users
• Admin Users (Extra Credit)

User Functionality

Guests (No Login)

• Can see homepage with first 3 articles from each category.
• Can see article index page.
• Are sent to signup page if they want to see article show page.
• Can signup
• Can Login

Vanilla Users

• Can see everything a guest can
• Can see article show pages.
• Can logout

Editor Users

• Can do everything a vanilla User can.
• Can create articles
• Can delete articles that they created
• Can edit articles that they created

Admin User (Extra Credit)

• Can create users and set roles.
• Can edit users and change roles.
• Can't edit/destroy/create articles.

Article Table

Table will contain title, content, category, user_id.

Roles

Use one of these gems: Petergate (Preferred), Pundit, Cancancan.

Role Names

• user
• editor
• admin (Extra Credit)

Database

Use sqlite

Testing

Use minitest as the test suite.

Authentication

Devise can be used for authentication.

Templating

slim (Prefered), haml, erb