Bloom & Wild Test

Hello! And welcome to the Bloom & Wild coding exercise.

We recommend you spend around 2-3 hours over this exercise, but how much time you take is up to you. Read through the brief below for details of what to do and what we're looking for.

Test brief

In this test you'll be building a simple app to enable placement of an order for a bouquet.

We'll be looking for things like:

• A clean and simple solution
• Done in a standard way
• Solid use of tests

Getting started

We've provided you with a skeleton rails application -- once it's running, you can visit http://localhost:3000 and use the simple UI to place an order.

You should build on top of this solution for the tasks below.

Tasks

• Add a feature test (there's an example already) which places an order.

• Expand on (or delete) the model tests in spec/models

• Add the ability to upgrade shipping (£2.50 per order) to "Special Delivery"

• Create a new model called "Delivery" containing:

  • Bouquet
  • Recipient name
  • Delivery date
  • Reference to the order that created it
  • The shipping method to be used

  Do not connect it to anything else yet!

• Add a rake task called "shipping". When this task runs it should take a date as an argument and create a Delivery object for all Order objects going out that day that have status "billed". It should set the status of Order to "complete" when it is done.

• Add a new attribute to Order "three_month_bundle" that, if true, will have a delivery every month from the Order's delivery_on date for 3 months (Price increase is Bouquet.price * 3 but with a 10% discount on bouquet 2 and 3)

• Update the Shipping task to make sure it produces deliveries for these bundles, orders should remain in "billed" until all three deliveries have been created.

• Discussion: How might you improve the architecture of the code? Specifically think about what might happen if the application were to die mid way through processing an order and what will happen as complexity increases