Turing Back-End Development Program, Mod 2, Week 2/3 Pair Project.

By: Joshua Sherwood and Nancy Lee

This application uses:

• Rails 5.1.7
• Ruby 2.4.1

In this project, we've added additional functionalities to an existing repo (i.e., a fictitious e-commerce platform called little_shop built with Rails) that mimic online transactions in a more realistic way.

The project was guided by user stories. The project demonstrates the following concepts:

• HTTP requests and responses facilitated by RESTful and non-RESTful routes
• separation of logic via MVC framework
• one-to-many & many-to-many relationships between two tables
• creation of a join table
• creation of case-specific flash messages
• making database queries via ORM (i.e., ActiveRecord) and params
• session that holds temporary user information
• refactoring of the presentational logic through partials

Below is a snapshot of the project database via active designer (showing different types of relationships)

A few notable functionalities that we also implemented during this project include:

• Handling invalid HTTP requests ('this page does not exist')
• Updating cart contents based on client behavior (i.e., order submission renders an empty cart)
• Applying bootstrap styling, including layouts, navigation bar, cards, buttons, and star glyphicons

View the project at https://radiant-falls-14500.herokuapp.com/