Rails Engine is the backend for a fictitious E-Commerce application. The project is modeled after a service-oriented architecture, as a separate backend that provides information to the front end via APIs.

• Ruby 2.7.2
• Rails 5.2.6

1. Clone this repo. On your local machine, open the terminal and enter the following command:

$ git clone [email protected]:croixk/rails_engine.git

2. You can now enter the project directory $ cd rails_engine

3. Now, install the required gems using $ bundle install

4. Run database migrations with $ rails rake db:{drop,create,migrate,seed}

5. Before consuming the APIs, you will need to start the local server $ rails s

This project exposes the following endpoints for a front end team

• get all merchants - GET /api/v1/merchants
• get one merchant - GET /api/v1/merchants/:merchant_id
• get all items for a given merchant ID - GET /api/v1/merchants/:merchant_id/items

• get all items - GET /api/v1/items
• get one item - GET /api/v1/items/:item_id
• create an item - POST /api/v1/items
• edit an item - PATCH /api/v1/items
• delete an item - DELETE /api/v1/items/:item_id
• get the merchant data for a given item ID - GET /api/v1/items/:item_id/merchant