Scouting reports is a baseball scouting report application that allows a user to create reports for pitchers and position players.

You'll need the following installed to run the application successfully:

• Ruby 3.0 or higher
• bundler - gem install bundler
• Yarn - brew install yarn or Install Yarn

Install the application with:

$bundle install

Seed development DB with data by running:

$rake db:seed

Run the test suite with:

$bin/rspec

To start the server:

$rails server

Open app in the browser at URI http://localhost:3000

To model reports, I used a newer Rails feature that was introduced in Rails 6 called Delegated Types. Delegated Types provides an alternative to Single Table Inheritance for modeling inheritance in Rails. It allows for the reports table to hold the shared data that position_reports and pitcher_reports have in common and allows the child models to have their own DB tables with their specific data attributes. This way there will not be a large shared table with many null values as there would be when using STI.

For more information on Delegated Types:

https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/DelegatedType.html

For adding pitches on the fly in the pitcher report, I used Stimulus.js and wired up the Add Pitch button to a Stimulus controller called javascript/controllers/nested_form_controller.js.

For more information on Stimulus.js:

https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/

If I had more time, I would find a more elegant way to handle creating a new report in the UI. The way it is now, there are two buttons Create Pitcher Report and Create Position Report. The links for the buttons pass a query param for the report type to the reports controller to determine which report form to render.

Ideally, there would be one Create Report button and the correct report form fields could be generated dynamically with Javascript based on the report type select field.

I would also make the UI design look better and use Hotwire and Stimulus.js to improve the views with things like inline editing, autocomplete search fields, etc