Visit Widget Backend Code Exercise

About

A simple backend based on the Rails Getting Started Guide. It is a REST backend only, returning JSON and accepting JSON for updates/creates. Below are steps to get the code up and running, and then directions on completing the exercise by adding certain actions. It is estimated that the code exercise will take 2-4 hours, and there will be follow up questions and discussion of the submission at the subsequent technical interview.

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository.
2. From root, run bundle install
3. From root, run rake db:migrate
4. From root, run rake db:seed

Exercise

Look for TODO: in the code for inline comments, or here is a unified list:

1. Add endpoints for updating and deleting an Article in articles_controller.rb
2. Fill in the endpoint in the articles_controller.rb to allow an import of Articles with Comments. See import.json for an example json payload the endpoint should accept.
3. Add pagination and filtering to the list endpoint in articles_controller.rb. Should be able to filter on status equaling one of the 3 statuses and title or body containing a string.
4. Add tests for articles_controller.rb in articles_controller_test.rb. (please ignore comments_controller_test.rb)

Submission

Once complete, please respond to the email in which you received this code exercise with either a zip of all the code or a url of a fork that is publicly accessible. We will test and run the code, and followup with next steps. Thank you!