limonka / treasure_hunt

Programming Assignment:

Web endpoint for a treasure hunt game. It allows participants to send requests to an endpoint, containing their current position (latitude and longitude in decimal representation) and email. Response contains a distance to the treasure expressed in meters. When players are in a 5 meter radius from the treasure an e-mail message with congratulations and exact position of the treasure is sent on the provided e-mail address. Congratulations email is sent only once.

Treasure location:

50.051227 N, 19.945704 E

Request format:

/treasure_hunt.json?current_location[]=:latitude&current_location[]=:longitude&email=:email

Example request:

POST /treasure_hunt.json?current_location[]=0&current_location[]=0&email=[e-mail]

Example response:

Successful response:

{ status: 'ok', distance: 10 }

Error response:

{ status: 'error', distance: -1, error: 'error description' }

Email Content:

“Hey, you’ve found a treasure, congratulations! You are [:nth] treasure hunter who has found the treasure.”
NOTE: [:nth] is an actual number of treasure hunters who successfully found a treasure before + 1.

Contains:

• unit and functional tests
• auth token - based authentication for API requests
• dashboard visualizing points sent by users on a map (http://treasure-hunting.herokuapp.com/)