zachrab / backend-challenge

Everlywell's Backend Interview Challenge

EverlyWell Backend Challenge

Overview

Using Ruby on Rails, we'd like you to create a simple experts directory search tool. The tool can either be a full featured application or API only.

• Spend no more than 4 hours coding for the project. Do not include any initial application setup in this time limit.

Requirements:

The application should fulfill the following requirements:

• A member can be created using their name and a personal website address.
• When a member is created, all the heading (h1-h3) values are pulled in from the website to that members profile.
• The website url is shortened (e.g. using http://goo.gl).
• After the member has been added, I can define their friendships with other existing members. Friendships are bi-directional i.e. If David is a friend of Oliver, Oliver is always a friend of David as well.
• The interface should list all members with their name, short url and the number of friends.
• Viewing an actual member should display the name, website URL, shortening, website headings, and links to their friends' pages.
• Now, looking at Alan's profile, I want to find experts in the application who write about a certain topic and are not already friends of Alan.
• Results should show the path of introduction from Alan to the expert e.g. Alan wants to get introduced to someone who writes about 'Dog breeding'. Claudia's website has a heading tag "Dog breeding in Ukraine". Bart knows Alan and Claudia. An example search result would be Alan -> Bart -> Claudia ("Dog breeding in Ukraine").

We encourage the use of any libraries for everything except the search functionality, in which we want to see your simple algorithm approach.

Add-ons:

• Sign up/log in functionality
• A UI that expands upon the basic requirements to have a user-friendly look and feel
• Anything else you, as a user, would enjoy seeing in an interface like this

Things we're looking for:

• Navigable code
• Efficient algorithms
• Good separation of concerns
• Error handling
• Usage of gems/libraries

Things we like:

• Well commented & well organized code
• Quality over quantity (the code you write should be good)
• Small, meaningful, commits
• Tests!
• Respect for the time limit - if you are in the midst of some work that you would like to finish, but have hit the 4 hour time limit, please split additional work into a separate branch, to be evaluated separately

Submission

• Fork this repository to your own git

• Remember to make meaningful commits as you work

• Somehow share your repository with us

• Important: If there are credentials required (.env or master.key file), please email these to us directly or we can’t review your project

• After you fork the repo, you can run the following commands in your terminal:

    bin/setup
    bin/rspec
  

• Feel free to add to add/modify existing specs. Just make sure the original request specs are still present.

• Here are the required routes:

    [POST] "/friendships"
    [POST] "/members"
     [GET] "/members"
     [GET] "/members/:member_id"
  

Reviewer Setup

1. Clone the candidate's branch

2. Execute the following:

    bin/bundle
    bin/rails db:drop
    bin/setup
    bin/rspec
   

3. Make a copy of the rubric and fill it in

4. Ensure that the requests specs are the same or improved