Welcome to SGE’s interview assignment!¶ ↑

Getting Started¶ ↑

1. Ensure you have installed MySQL (dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/), Ruby 1.9.3 (RVM is recommended: beginrescueend.com/), and RubyGems >= 1.5.3 (rubygems.org/pages/download)

2. Install bundler (gem install bundler)

3. Install cached bundled gems (bundle install –local –deployment)

4. Create the databases (bundle exec rake db:create:all)

5. Set up the database (bundle exec rake db:migrate)

6. Set up the test database (bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test)

If you’re not familiar with using bundler, simply know that you should use bundle exec before any command line applications. For instance, starting the app server is ‘bundle exec script/server’, and starting a console session is ‘bundle exec script/console’.

Assignment¶ ↑

Create a bare-bones book collection management system.

Requirements¶ ↑

• Upon signing in, you see your book collection.

– If nothing is in your collection, you get a call to action to add a book.

• Add a book

• Delete a book

• Edit a book

• Basic error handling

• Unit tests verifying each of the preceding requirements (use the test framework of your choice, e.g. rspec, cucumber)

Note: we care more about the site being usable than pretty.

Extra Credit¶ ↑

• Pretty, standards-compliant markup + CSS.

• Ajaxifying the CRUD operations.

• Advanced error handling

– e.g., detect probable duplicates and warn

• Spellchecking

• A simple statistics dashboard for admin use.

• Invite a friend to join the service.

– via mail – via Facebook

• Friending within the site (creating relationships between users)

– leveraging Facebook

• See who has books in common with you

• Upload and display profile picture