MyFlix

E-commerce application, a clone of NetFlix, with payment processing, account management, and administration capabilities.

Home Page and Sign up

The project's home page lives on Heroku - here. If you want to sign up, use following details:

• Credit card number '4242 4242 4242 4242',
• cvc '123',
• Any non-expired date

Goal and description

The goal of this project is to go beyond a beginner Rails project and learn what it takes to launch real, robust and production quality applications. In this project, I focused on the engineering processes, workflows and best practices of experienced developers. From start to end, I used Test Driven Development (TDD) to build production-level robustness and manage complexity in a growing codebase.

Main topics, concepts, tech and methodologies used to build this project

Processes

• Ideation, wireframes, mockups, design and development
• Build from the application core to the peripherals
• Add features incrementally and deploy continuously

Team Collaboration

• Feature development with Git branching
• Github flow
• Code reviews

Testing

• Unit, functional, and integration tests
• Development and test databases
• Shoulda matchers
• TDD and red / green / refactor
• BDD & RSpec
• Single assertion principle
• Controller tests
• Macros
• Shared examples
• Capybara
• Test doubles and method stubs
• Feature specs with Javascript
• Testing email sending
• Isolated API tests
• Message expectations
• Mocking
• Stubs and mocks
• Implement Continuous Integration with TravisCI

Building Applications

• Seeding data
• Search
• Sending emails
• Use random tokens
• Email Service Providers
• Custom form builders
• Complex forms
• Self referential associations
• Concerns
• Background jobs (Sidekiq / Redis)
• Uploading files to Amazon S3
• Scheduled jobs
• Skinny controller, fat model
• Structural refactors
• Separating actors
• Securing access
• Wrapping APIs
• Responding to webhooks
• Collect credit card payments
• Checkout
• Payment forms
• Recurring billing
• Handle callback events
• Beyond MVC

Production Application Considerations

• Secure sensitive data
• Deploy with Procfile and Foreman
• Staging and production environments
• Custom deployment scripts
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Production error monitoring
• Production service integration

Workflows

• Build workflows that involve multiple sub-systems
• Complex registration workflow
• Invitation workflow
• User life cycle management
• Social networking
• Taking and charging credit cards
• Recurring billing
• Privileges and access control
• Account and billing management