Rick and Morty Email Notifications for Serge

This project uses Sidekiq to run a scheduled job every 30 minutes to fetch data from the Rick and Morty GraphQL API. Any new characters are stored in a local database. Serge is sent an email detailing the number of new records stored in the db and number of total records pulled from the API.

Ruby 2.7+ Rails 6.1+ PostgreSQL

Sidekiq VCR and Webmock for mocking HTTP requests RSpec for testing

Clone the repository.

bundle install rails db:create rails db:migrate

Set up an .env file with your GMAIL_ADDRESS, GMAIL_PASSWORD, and MAIL_RECIPIENT. Use Serge's test email as the recipient per the instructions of the assignment. You may need to generate an app password to use instead of using your actual gmail password. https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords

1. Install and run Redis. https://redis.io/download
2. Run the rails server with rails s (optional, but helpful for seeing logs)
3. Run Sidekiq: bundle exec sidekiq

Run rspec to run tests.

To fetch and store new characters manually, you can trigger the CharacterService.fetch_and_store_characters method.

1. Generate separate internal character ID instead of using Ricky and Morty API character ID
2. Improve format of notification email and include details about characters