MicroBlogger

This is a Rails 5.2.n API stack.

Local dev setup

Be sure to have ruby (2.5.n) installed. RVM is recommended to manage ruby. This dev stack uses guard for rapid style and test feedback. It is strongly recommended to have it running for every dev change/session.

Initial setup

• rvm install ruby-2.5.1
• bundle install
• set up application.yml
  • copy config/application.yml.sample to config/application.yml
  • edit values as needed
• rake db:create
• rake db:migrate
• rake db:fixtures:load

There is a shell script in the root that will rebuild both the local dev and test databases which executes the last three setup steps: ./rebuild-dev-db.sh

Currently fixture files are used to seed local and test dev instead of the rake db:seed pattern.

dev session

• bundle exec guard
• do work until tests pass.
• quit to exit guard

The guard config file is /Guardfile.

With (almost) every file save, associated tests to that file are ran, if successful the whole suite is then executed.

After the test suite rubocop kicks off with auto-correction flags.

Finally simple cover reports are updated.

other notes

• minitest is the testing framework
• editorconfig: https://editorconfig.org/
• rails-erd: https://github.com/voormedia/rails-erd