Back End Challenge

Overview

In this challenge you'll be connecting to an external API, receiving reports in various formats, and will have to translate them and store them in the database. You'll have to create a user and use the given token for http authentication. This exercise mimics how vendor portals behave in real-world applications. You may use any tools and add any gems as you see fit. You are allowed to use google, stack overflow, etc and to ask us questions. There are 3 different report formats: JSON(20), CSV(25) and XML(25). You're not expected to complete all of them. The goal of this exercise is not to complete it to perfection, but to see how you approach problems and design a solution. The challenge is encapsulated inside a sinatra app. You are not required to run it or build any views, it was just a convenient boilerplate.

Objective

The objective of this challenge is to process as many transaction reports as possible, and store each individual transaction in the database, extracting the attributes required by the Transaction ActiveRecord model found on ./models/transaction.rb

Instructions

1. Clone this repository
2. create a branch with your name
3. Run bundle install
4. Run rake db:create and rake db:migrate RACK_ENV=test
5. Run rake spec and ensure there are no failing tests.
6. Create a commit with the message "Start time"
7. Visit https://be-challenge-uqjcnl577q-pd.a.run.app/
8. Follow the on screen instructions to create a user, receive a token and connect to the API.
9. Use any means you see fit to accomplish the objective outlined above.
10. You may use irb and require './app.rb' to have a working console with the application loaded.

Notes

• Intent: An Intent is a user initiated interaction with an online store, like a person walking into a store, but not making any purchase yet. And if an Intent is walking into the store, a Transaction is a purchase. The intent's ID is what is passed to the vendors to track that the 'shopping trip', and any resulting sales, came form FlipGive.