A real-ish backend project for practice and teaching of Rails APIs

This App can be run locally in 2 easy ways. You can do traditional local Rails development or run it from a docker container with a few commands.

1. Run bundle install
2. Using 2 terminals, run bundle exec sidekiq in one and bundle exec rails server in the other.

1. Run RAILS_ENV=production docker-compose up --build

All resources are nested under /api/v1/ but are conceptually unrelated. This API wears many hats and is meant to reduce building and maintenance costs of managing several repos.

Returns a collection of concerts in the zip_code. This relies on an integration to the Ticketmaster Discovery API.

Concepts Highlighted:

• Concurrent API Calls
• Low-level Caching

Determines current logged in user with a JWT token and creates favorites entries for them.

Concepts Highlighted:

• JWT Authentication
• ActiveRecord Cleanup Hooks

Opens BoxOfficeMojo and scrapes the page of search results, then opens each movie's page and scrapes details.

Concepts Highlighted:

• Web Scraping (with Nokogiri)
• Concurrency

The main reason for this project is to serve as a sandbox for rails development and thus, a way to dive deeper on rails without having to set up a new project every time.

I want a rails app I can put through the spin cycle and not worry about breaking something upon which people are actually depending. At the same time I want that experimentation to take place in an established system, a maintained Rails App with most if not all of the bells and whistles a standing long term project would have.

Being a full-time developer on closed-source code means that I don't have as much time to devote to open-source projects. I'd like this repo to serve as a way to reinforce best practices across the entire development cycle, from IRB to CI-CD.

A NOTE ABOUT COMMENTS - I love Ruby for its expressive ability which generally makes limiting comments in lieu of clean, expressive code the way to go. That said, comments can help teach so I plan to have them in more places than would normally be needed.

For now, this App serves as the backend for https://github.com/gatorjuice/about_me_vue.