Alejandro Lopez
Julian Beldotti
Reid Miller
Stephen McPhee

This project, entitled "Little Esty Shop", is a Turing BE-Mod2 Group Project focusing on designing an e-commerce platform. It's funcitonality would allow merchants as well as admins to manage inventory & fulfill customers orders.

The project was completed using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL for the database, Render for app deployment to the web, and Github Projects for time and project management.

New concepts learned during the course of this project included:

• implementing rake tasks in order to seed data from the CSV files into the database;
• working with new gems for additional functionality including factory_bot_rails, faker and HTTParty
• creating complex ActiveRecord queries to the database;
• Consumed an external API to serve data to our site.

Goals achieved during this project:

• 100% coverage of Model and Feature tests using simplecov
• Worked with and extracted information from multiple objects using ActiveRecord queries.
• 100% completion of all the user stories
• Collaborated togeher as a group and then in pairs to successfully complete the project.
• Used GitHub projects, milestones, and issues to effectively coordinate all tasks amongst the team.

Summary of Milestones:

• Merchant Dashboard - This page shows details for a particular merchant, including the items that are ready to ship and favorite customers
• Merchant Invoices - This displays an index page for invoices that links to a show page which shows information for the customer on this invoice and a table that shows each item on the invoice including a selector which allows for the user update the status
• Merchant Items - These pages allow a visitor to enable/disable particular items and click into those items to see a description. Additionally it reflects the sales of the top five items that this merchant has sold alongside their sales amount and best date of purchases
• Admin Dashboard - Shows top 5 customers by successful transactions and all incomplete invoices
• Admin Merchants - Merchant index and show pages, with top 5 merchants by revenue, disabled and enabled merchants, and edit merchants functionality
• Admin Invoices - Shows an index page of all IDs in the system and then Shows the details of each individual invoice. Detailed customer, invoice, and item information
• Unsplash API consumption - Adds images to various show pages and a logo to all pages

Potential Refactor Opportunities

• Make two partials to display easy access links for a user and admin to navigate between dashboard, items, and invoice pages.
• Create a welcome page.
• Style the whole app with CSS.
• Within methods that calculate total revenue implement a subquery that insures only one successful transaction is taken into account per invoice.
• Add number_to_currency to the view page to nicely format the prices and total revenue.