A mini e-commerce application built with Rails 6.1 for purposes of teaching Rails by example. This was an existing app that we had to go through and find bugs that were present. Admin authentication information for adding categories and products can be found and edited in the .ENV file.
- Run
bundle installto install dependencies - Create
config/database.ymlby copyingconfig/database.example.yml - Create
config/secrets.ymlby copyingconfig/secrets.example.yml - Run
bin/rails db:resetto create, load and seed db - Create .env file based on .env.example
- Sign up for a Stripe account
- Put Stripe (test) keys into appropriate .env vars
- Run
bin/rails s -b 0.0.0.0to start the server
If Rails is complaining about authentication to the database, uncomment the user and password fields from config/database.yml in the development and test sections, and replace if necessary the user and password development to an existing database user.
Use Credit Card # 4111 1111 1111 1111 for testing success scenarios.
More information in their docs: https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards
- Rails 6.1 Rails Guide
- Bootstrap 5
- PostgreSQL 9.x
- Stripe


