Grocery Link

A web REST API for grocery retailers to upload their product data and for developers to access that data through HTTP Requests. Built using the Rails MVC framework and using a PostgreSQL database.

Link

groceryLink

• example user: user@example.com
• example password: password

Process

My Trello Board with UMLs & wireframes

Example Method calls

• To request all categories; returns all categories: https://grocerylink.herokuapp.com/api/lookup/categories?client_id=b9a39a944f59043f&secret_id=79b0a9758fa7712a3444bfab75241f2c04b1bf786fb0f88e27eb415211cf19f6

• To request all retailers; returns all retailers: https://grocerylink.herokuapp.com/api/lookup/retailers?client_id=b9a39a944f59043f&secret_id=79b0a9758fa7712a3444bfab75241f2c04b1bf786fb0f88e27eb415211cf19f6

• To request all retailers in area; returns all retailers in city & state: https://grocerylink.herokuapp.com/api/lookup/retailersinarea?client_id=b9a39a944f59043f&secret_id=79b0a9758fa7712a3444bfab75241f2c04b1bf786fb0f88e27eb415211cf19f6&city=Austin&state=TX

• To request by id; returns all retailer's that carry the item and price for each retailer: https://grocerylink.herokuapp.com/api/products/byid?client_id=b9a39a944f59043f&secret_id=79b0a9758fa7712a3444bfab75241f2c04b1bf786fb0f88e27eb415211cf19f6&id=4

• To request products that match by name; returns each product's info and retailers that carry the item: https://grocerylink.herokuapp.com/api/products/byname?client_id=b9a39a944f59043f&secret_id=79b0a9758fa7712a3444bfab75241f2c04b1bf786fb0f88e27eb415211cf19f6&name=Amy

Set up

1. clone repo
2. run bundle install
3. run rake db:create db:migrate db:seed

How to run tests

• make sure the rake tasks above have run
• unless you'll be using code climate, remove 1st two lines from test_helper.rb. If you wish to sign up to track coverage, go to: Code Climate and follow their instructions.
• to have tests run with each push and tracked from your github repo, go to: Travis CI and follow their instructions to have them run your tests.
• run rake test in the terminal to run locally.

Dependancies

• Materializecss was used to create most of the styling.
• Canvas.JS was used to create dynamic charts, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_US
• DataTables was used to create data tables.
• React was used to run and display reports.
• Notable gems:
  • fiagro
  • codeclimate-test-reporter
  • mocha
  • devise
  • mandrill_dm
  • pg_search
  • react-rails
  • jquery_datatables-rails, github: 'rweng/jquery-datatables-rails'
  • momentjs-rails
  • information_machine_api, github: 'information-machine/information-machine-api-ruby'
  • puma
  • materialize-sass
  • boostrap-sass
  • will_paginate
  • will_paginate-boostrap
  • faker

Contact Info

• LinkedIn
• alejandroereyes@gmail.com