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A test project for HelpJuice

Tech Stack

• Ruby => 2.7.0
• Rails => 6.0.3.5

Dependencies

• PostgreSQL database.
• Rspec for testing
• PG_Search for searching

Project Setup

After installing appropriate Ruby & Rails versions

1. Run bundle install in the project directory
2. Run rails db:create, do update/add the database.yml with your credentials before running this...
3. Run rails db:migrate to run database migrations
4. Run rails db:seed to populate the database
5. Run rails server to run the rails server on localhost:3000

Implementation & Thought Process

As search was not the focus of this project, to save time, I've used pg_search.

As per my understanding, the goal of this assignment was to show trending searches (i.e. what people are searching)

So my algorithm is as follows

• I send a query to fetch the search results whenever there is a space after typed word (to save queries on each input)
• I show populate the dropdown with the search results so that user can select the appropriate article
• When user select the article I use that information to store the search as analytics (behind the scene I update the search count for that particular article)
• I've also added a scope to fetch trending searches
• On view side, I've used simple HTML with Bootstrap to show search box, searched article list, and trending searches