Scene It | MovieDb Web API

Scene It is a movie database website created by @discocisco for an educational project. Anyone can view the website and read a collection of reviews made by people who have hopefully seen the movie they are reviewing. After sign-in, users are able to create reviews of their own as well as store certain movies as a favorite of theirs. The back-end was developed using combination of Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL. The front-end was developed using React primarily with JavaScript and axios commands to communicate with the Scene It API and display changes to the web application in real-time for the viewer. While anyone is able to view movies and movie reviews, only signed-in users are able to create, update, or destroy their own review. Favorites can only be viewed, added, or removed by the signed-in user.

• View the deployed API here!
• View the deployed client here!

Setup and installation

1. Fork and clone this repository
2. Create a branch for edits (suggested)
3. Install dependencies with bundle install.
4. Create a .env for sensitive settings (touch .env).
5. Generate new development and test secrets (bundle exec rails secret).
6. Store them in .env with keys SECRET_KEY_BASE_<DEVELOPMENT|TEST> respectively.
7. Run local host for viewing live-changes with bin/rails server.

Technologies used

• Ruby
• Rails
• PostgreSQL
• SQL
• Git
• cURL
• client (view the repo here.)

Routes

Verb	URI Pattern	Request Body	Headers	Action
POST	/sign-up	credentials	N/A	user sign-up
POST	/sign-in	credentials	N/A	user sign-in
DELETE	/sign-out	N/A	Token	user sign-out
PATCH	/change-password	passwords	Token	change-password
GET	/movies	N/A	N/A	index movies
GET	/movies/:id	N/A	N/A	show movie/:id
POST	find-theater	search: <<string>>	N/A	Yelp search movie theaters by location
GET	/reviews	N/A	N/A	index reviews
GET	/reviews/:id	N/A	N/A	show review
POST	/reviews	review: {}	Token	create review
PATCH	/reviews/:id	review delta	Token	update review
DELETE	/reviews/:id	N/A	Token	delete review
GET	/favorites	N/A	Token	index favorites
GET	/favorites/:id	N/A	Token	show favorite
POST	/favorites	favorite: { movie_id: <<id>>}	Token	create favorite
PATCH	/favorites/:id	favorite delta	Token	update favorite
DELETE	/favorites/:id	N/A	Token	delete favorite

Development process and strategy

The focus of the back-end of this project was to handle all users, movies, reviews and favorites to be used by the client. Users were developed by GA to handle all proper authentification.

• Users were given an email to be used client-side for logging into the website or for displaying purposes. Each user could own multiple reviews or favorites that could be related or unrelated.
• Reviews were given a text_body and movie_id that would link to an existing movie that the user is wishing to create a review for.
• Favorites were given movie_id only.
• All movies and reviews could be viewed by any user, signed-in or not. Favorites can only be viewed by the signed-in user.
• Ownership is required for any user to edit a specific resource.

The future can be scene

• A new resource called Profile to house all user customization preferences and website themes.
• Successful calls to TheMovieDb API to populate movies table with list of their movies and additional information.
• Authorization handled by a third-party login (i.e. Facebook or Google)

ERD

1. Link to ERD (Entity relationship diagram).