Project: in (DECLASSIFIED)

Setup (Mac)

Rails

1. install brew (http://brew.sh/)
2. brew install rbenv
3. rbenv install
4. gem install bundler
5. git clone https://github.com/fuentesjr/in.git
6. cd in

Puma

7. sudo xcodebuild -license (accept license)
8. brew install openssl (install ssl libs)

That should get you up and running, to run your local server run rails s in your terminal, with default settings that will let you access your app at localhost:3000

Mission Objective

This is a simple application that scrapes and parses LinkedIn profiles, stores results in a structured manner in a persistent layer and allows searching on the stored results.

Backend service

Implements a RESTful API containing 3 endpoints:

• Adding a public LinkedIn profile
• Searching for people that were previously added
• Searching for skills and viewing associated people

The service extracts the following fields from the public profile:

• Name of the person
• Current title
• Current position
• List of skills

UI

The UI allows users to:

• submit new profiles by passing in a LinkedIn profile URL
• submit searches (utilizing the service searching capabilities described above). Searches should either be by person name or by skill.

Notes

The application is built with high-volume in mind:

• Several users will be adding profiles for parsing concurrently
• The persistence layer may eventually contain millions of results. Searching through the results still needs to be effective.

Implementation details

• Uses Postgres as the primary persistence layer (aka database)
• Uses Bootstrap UI/CSS framework for styling
• Uses Elm and The Elm Architecture for the Front-End
• Uses JSON as the data exchange format between the client and the API service
• Uses Minitest for testing