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DawnInfusion

This is a coding challenge for Morning Brew.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

  • Docker + Docker Compose

Installing

Provide a Lyra API key in .env using .env.example

docker-compose build

docker-compose run app yarn install --check-files
docker-compose run app rake db:create
docker-compose run app rake db:migrate

docker-compose up

Thought Process

  • Started by setting up Docker + Docker Compose
    • Set up Postgres and Rails containers
  • Created CRUD for stories
  • Created CRUD for newsletters
    • Tried to make a React component for better story selection
    • Used out of box collection_select after running into Webpacker slowness
  • Integrated TinyMCE into stories
    • Tried again to use Webpacker
    • Tried to use tinymce-rails
    • Ended up using the script tag because of time spent debugging
  • Wrote a Lyra API wrapper using faraday
    • app/lib/lyra.rb
    • Tried to generalize between newsletters and stories, supporting all CRUD actions
  • Integrated Lyra CRUD into CMS
  • Used roadie to inline styles for transport to Lyra

Additions

  • Ensure that newsletters in Lyra are made of the same HTML that is in Lyra for all stories
  • Better Lyra API wrapper error handling
    • Currently expects everything to return 200 :)
  • If Lyra acts like I think it does (acts like a central repository?)
    • I tightly coupled Lyra to the individual stories
      • Would break out Lyra interaction separately from the individual stories
      • Especially for deleting -- right now, the Lyra ID is tied directly to the story, so if it is deleted, there is no local reference to the Lyra version
    • Allow for writers to fetch from Lyra, then diff the changes
  • Get webpacker to properly pack CSS (couldn't figure it out)
  • Better story selection
    • Searching for stories based on various metadata
      • By tags
      • By words body html
    • Ordering
      • Might do it with React DnD
  • Generate a teaser from body html to display in the CMS