Mock trade bitcoin. Start out with $100,000 USD and play the real-time market prices. Your mock digital assets and money are secured on the exchange.

Non-traders and non-investors looking to get a taste of the cryptocurrency space without risking real money.

• User register & sign in
• Show live market price
• Mock buy/sell bitcoin
• View digital asset portfolio

Users can register and sign in using email and password. Our application uses JSON Web Tokens, a stateless authentication mechanism.

With a starting balance of $100,000 USD, users can trade bitcoin at the current market value. Enter the amount you want to buy/sell.

The exchange tracks the live price using Gemini's API. Prices updated in real time using fetch (JavaScript) -- no need to refresh the page!

User balances are saved in the database so your digital assets can be re-accessed with a simple sign in.

rails 5 and postgresql required.

bundle install
rails db:create db:migrate

foreman start

• Implementing associations resolved by reading the guide referenced below and adding the table reference in the scaffold generation command

• Generated tests do not pass since I removed some controller endpoints resolved by updating integration tests accordingly

• Association basics http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html
• Net:HTTP library http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.5.0/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html

Jonathan Cruz

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