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Little Esty Shop

Background and Description

"Little Esty Shop" is a group project that requires students to build a fictitious e-commerce platform where merchants and admins can manage inventory and fulfill customer invoices.

Learning Goals

• Practice designing a normalized database schema and defining model relationships
• Utilize advanced routing techniques including namespacing to organize and group like functionality together.
• Utilize advanced active record techniques to perform complex database queries
• [Optional] Practice consuming a public API while utilizing POROs as a way to apply OOP principles to organize code

Requirements

• Must use Rails 7.0.x, Ruby 3.2.2
• Must use PostgreSQL
• All code must be tested via feature tests and model tests, respectively
• Must use GitHub branching, team code reviews via GitHub PR comments, and either GitHub Projects or a project management tool of your group's choice (Trello, Notion, etc.)
• Must include a thorough README to describe the project
  • README should include a basic description of the project, a summary of the work completed, and some ideas for a potential contributor to work on/refactor next. Also include the names and GitHub links of all student contributors on your project.
• Must deploy completed code to the internet (using Heroku or Render)
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment is not allowed
• Use of scaffolding is not allowed
• Any gems added to the project must be approved by an instructor
  • Pre-approved gems are capybara, pry, faker, factory_bot_rails, orderly, simplecov, shoulda-matchers, launchy

Setup

• Fork this repository
• Clone your fork
• From the command line, install gems and set up your DB:
  • bundle
  • rails db:create
• Run the test suite with bundle exec rspec.
• Run your development server with rails s to see the app in action.

Phases

1. Database Setup
2. User Stories
3. Extensions
4. Evaluation

Work Completed

• The project team worked together to build out functionality for the admin and merchant pages on this ficticioius e-commerce platform.
• Merchant dashboard, merchant items and merchant invoice pages were built in order to track item and invoice fulfillment from merchant dashboard.
• Admin dashboard, admin merchant and admin invoice pages were built to track overall item and invoice fulfillment from admin dashboard.
• Complex Active Record queries were used to provide statistics and useful information for both admin and merchant dashboard views.
• Advanced routing used throughout project, and partials were used to dry up similar code.

Potential Refactor / Expansion Options

• Option to update invoice statuses on one page at the same time
• Sorting options, on each page that lists merchants, invoices or items, there is an option to sort alphabetically or by most recent date
• Styling - Implementing a more consistent look and feel throughout site with reusable styles
• API Consumption - Utilizing Unsplash to create a logo for the site and photos of items and merchants on each page and tracking image statistic/like history of site logo.
• Authentication / Authorization for admin and/or merchants
• Implement cart functionality for users to add items to their carts.
• Site chat functionality

Contributors

Antoine:

• GitHub
• Email: aaube3@gmail.com

Kaylee:

• GitHub
• Email: kaylee.j.janes@gmail.com

Paul:

• GitHub
• Email: pcbennett42@gmail.com

Will Chen:

• GitHub
• Email: wfchen1990@gmail.com