Rails App for a (Christmas) Wrapping Order Interface

Getting started

To get the Rails server running locally:

• Clone this repo
• bundle install to install all dependencies
• rake db:create to create the default database
• rake db:migrate to make all database migrations
• rails s to start the local server

Code Overview

Dependencies

• Rails - Server-side web application framework
• Rails installation help - Guide to setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment
• Devise - For Authentication
• Simple Form - Rails forms made easy
• Bootstrap - Front-end framework

Structure

• app/models - Contains the database models for the application where we can define methods, validations, queries, and relations to other models.
• app/views - Contains templates for generating the JSON output for the API
• app/controllers - Contains the controllers where requests are routed to their actions, where we find and manipulate our models and return them for the views to render.
• config - Contains configuration files for our Rails application and for our database, along with an initializers folder for scripts that get run on boot.
• db - Contains the migrations needed to create our database schema.