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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