Ruby on Rails application for building unique quizzes with admin/user interface, e-commerce, and certification. The application was built by using Test Driven Development, GitHub Flow, and Agile Planning.
IMPORTANT: The code in this repository is legacy (from 2015) and is no longer maintained.
- Sign up and sign in for students via 3rd party - GitHub.
- Forgetten password and 'Remember me'.
- Admin area with multiple actor roles - Instructor, Teaching Assistant.
- Possibility of paid Signature track and credit card payment via Stripe.
- Downloadable PDF and shareable certificate on LinkedIn.
- File upload to Amazon S3.
- Quiz questions and answers can be written in Markdown.
- Syntax highlighting support for markdown code blocks.
- Continuous Integration - Builds on Travis CI and CircleCI.
- Continuous Deployment - from CircleCI to Heroku.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
You need to be able to setup developer account with 3rd party services:
- GitHub (Required only for student track)
- AWS (Optional)
- Stripe (Required only for student track)
In order to run specs, you will need to install PhantomJS. Homebrew installation of PhantomJS:
brew update
brew install phantomjsAnd same way for PostgreSQL.
I originally used Ruby 2.1.5 and version was upgraded to 2.3.6, but any version before 2.4 should work without issues.
git clone git@github.com:tomtomecek/quizzer.git && cd quizzer
bundle install
bundle exec rake db:create db:schema:load
figaro installIf you want to seed some data.
bundle exec rake db:seedbundle exec rspec specI also used zeus to enhance local development.
Project is continuously deployed via CircleCI to Heroku, when all tests pass on master branch.
See the setup of config.yml - here.
- Ruby on Rails - The web framework used
- PostgreSQL - Database used
- Wicked PDF - PDF Generation with wkhtmltopdf
- Omniauth GitHub - Student Sign up/in provider
- Stripe - Credit card payments processing
- LinkedIn - Certificates uploaded to
- Amazon S3 - Storage for course files
- Mailgun - Email provider
- Sidekiq - For background jobs
- Parsley.js - Frontend form validation
- Sentry - Production error monitoring
- Font Awesome - Icons used
- jQuery - Javascript framework used
- Twitter Bootstrap - HTML/CSS framework used
- RSpec - BDD test framework used
- Capybara - Acceptance test framework used
- Tomas Tomecek - tomtomecek
- Huge thanks to Chris Lee and Kevin Wang - for inspiration, mentoring and knowledge
- Thanks to Brandon Conway - for development advice and hunt on some bugs
- Quiz inspiration came from Vienna.rb