Ruby-on-Rails Library Administration Application

This a demo Library Administration application using Ruby-on-Rails (v3.2.2 / v7.0.5) with RSpec. The application consists of a home page and books and users views enabling basic CRUD actions. The stack was built with Ruby-on-Rails web framework and uses a small amount of bootstrap and jQuery in the frontend.

The application was developed on a Windows machine, it has not been tested on Linux or MacOs.

Setup Instructions

• Ruby v3.2.2
• Rails v7.0.5
• To get running:
  • install Ruby via installer (including devkit) from https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
  • gem install rails
  • gem install sqlite3
  • git clone this repo
  • bundle install
  • rails db:migrate
  • rails db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test (optional if you want to run Rspec tests)
  • rspec (optional if you want to run Rspec tests)
  • rails db:seed (optional if you want to populate with seed data)
  • rails s

Known Setup Bugs

• When running bundle install, if you encounter fetch errors its probably due to iPv6 being enabled. Disable this, for some reason the gems server doesn't like it.
• There may be a number of dependency conflicts/version issues to resolve depending on what is already installed. Best approach is to just delete the Gemfile.lock and redo bundle install
• The frontend is not particularly 'refined' for this project as most of the focus has been on the backend. With this in mind, you may want to Ctrl + - or Ctrl + = in the browser to get the views fitting nicely. The browser used for development was Google Chrome. It has not been tested in Edge, Firefox, Safari or IE.