Echo Application

Introduction

Echo is a application which allows users to create endpoints for themself and let's them hit the corresponding endpoints to get the response they provided while creating.

Tech

Echo uses a number of open source projects to work as expected:

• [Ruby on Rails] - Server-side web application framework
• [POSTGRESQL] - Relational database management system (RDBMS)
• [Redis] - In Memeory Cache server

Prerequisites

The setups steps expect following tools installed on the system.

• Ruby [2.6.3]
• Rails [6.1.3.2]
• Postgresql [13.1]
• Redis [6.2.3]

1. Commands to execute

bundle install
yarn install

2. Create database.yml file

Copy the sample database.yml file and edit the database configuration as required.

cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml

3. Create and setup the database

Run the following commands to create and setup the database. Run postgres server using postgresapp [Version 2.4.1 (100)]

createuser -s db_user_name
bundle exec rake db:create
bundle exec rake db:migrate

4. Install redis server and run redis-server

brew install redis
redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

5. Start the Rails server

You can start the rails server using the command given below.

bundle exec rails s

And now you can start hitting http://localhost:3000 using postman collection provided along with application. PostMan Collection: https://www.getpostman.com/collections/dfd33b437f447f66ec8f

Unit Testing

Following commnds needs to be executed to run Unit test cases

bin/rails db:environment:set RAILS_ENV=test
bundle exec rspec