Backend Application - Shaan Suthar

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Overview:
This pull request introduces comprehensive CRUD functionality for the Encyclopedia Rails application, as outlined in the internship project goals. The changes encompass model, view, and controller updates to facilitate the creation, viewing, editing, and deletion of articles, as well as the implementation of article search functionality. All changes have been made in a dedicated branch, as instructed.

Key Highlights:

• CRUD Operations: Implemented create, read, update, and delete actions for articles, ensuring users can interact fully with the Encyclopedia's content.
• Search Functionality: Added the ability to search for articles, enhancing user experience and accessibility of content.
• Test Completion: Ensured all existing tests pass, covering a wide range of functionality from basic CRUD operations to search capabilities.
• Code Quality: Adhered to Ruby on Rails best practices, focusing on clean, maintainable, and well-structured code. Comments and documentation were added for clarity.
• Test Expansion: Improved existing tests and added new ones where necessary to ensure comprehensive coverage of all features.

Development Process:

• Reviewed and understood the existing tests in article_test.rb.
• Systematically implemented the required functionalities, ensuring adherence to MVC principles.
• Regularly committed changes to my forked repository, with clear and descriptive commit messages.
• Ensured all tests pass successfully after implementation, with adjustments made to resolve any failures.

Testing:

• Ran the full test suite repeatedly during development to ensure that all functionalities work as expected and that all tests pass.
• Manually tested CRUD operations and search functionality in the development environment.
• Documentation and Code Quality:

Added explanatory comments and documentation to the newly written code, ensuring future maintainability.
Followed the Ruby Style Guide for consistent and readable code format.

Next Steps:
This pull request is ready for review. I look forward to any feedback and further suggestions for improvement.

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this project. It has been an insightful and enriching experience, enhancing my understanding of Ruby on Rails and software development best practices.