kayxn23 / redfin-challenge

Redfin Coding Challenge

Redfin Coding Challenge

Getting started:

• clone the repo
• install Ruby 2.4.1 or later https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
• open terminal cd ~/redfin_challenge
• bundle install in terminal to acquire necessary dependencies (namely: 'soda-ruby')
• ruby main.rb to run the program

What to do differently for a full-scale web application:

As a full-scale web application, I would separate this application into front-end UI and backend web-server components, and possibly a database component used to store or evaluate user input. Error handling in an CLI program is rigid and confined to prompting, in a full-scale application I would use a dynamic framework like React to error handle in a more flexible and effective way. Building this out as a webapp would also be beneficial for making changes and updates to the application, because CLI programs must be downloaded.

Trello tasks:

https://trello.com/b/I5ot1CtQ/redfin-code-challenge