I thought about building a very pure front-end app, but decided I wanted to show off more full-stack skills, so the app is a full Rails app.
- There is a lot of visual polish and refinement that's still possible; this is a "low-design" approach that focuses on the interactions more than the pretty pixels.
- The next feature I would have written is a configuration for auto-filling new pay periods. The current code assumes a biweekly default cadence, but that should be configurable by account. (Of course, there are no accounts either). I'd then couple that configuration with either auto-provisioning of future pay period records, or provisioning on demand, in a "Give me another x weeks" kind of interaction.
You'll need Ruby installed on your machine. Check the .ruby-version file for the correct version.
If your Ruby doesn't have bundler installed, run this first:
gem install bundler
Then, install the dependencies with:
bundle install
The app uses sqlite3 for maximum portability, although that's a terrible thing to deploy into production in a cloud-style environment.
To create the database and seed it:
rails db:setup
To run the test suite, it's as you would expect from a Rails app:
rails test