Snow Globe Theatre Ticketing App

Based on Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web by Noel Rappin book (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

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1 Features at a glance

For customers

• Purchase tickets with credit card via stripe or paypal
• Subscriptions plans (via stripe payment)
• Discount codes
• Shipping options
• Processing fee, shipping fee
• Participate as affiliates/third-party sales (powered backend via Stripe Connect)

For administrators

• Admin login with 2FA
• Admin Dashboard (content management, inventory, discount codes, etc)
• Purchase tickets on behalf of customers via:
  • Cash (e.g. at ticket office)
  • Invoice/Purchase Order (e.g. bulk purchase)
• Make refunds on entire order or individual order item
• Reports
  • Activeadmin reports
  • Customised reports (daily revenue, etc)
• User simulation

Others

• Tax calculation via TaxCloud (USA only)
• Stripe webhooks

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2 Packages and version

• ruby: 2.6.3
• rails: ~ 6.0.0
• Database: pg (PostgreSQL)
• Currency: money-rails
• Payments:
  • stripe
  • paypal-sdk-rest
• Taxes: tax_cloud (USA only)
• Authentication:
  • devise
  • authy (2FA)
• Authorization and roles: pundit
• Job: delayed_job
• Tests: rspec, capybara, vcr, factorybot
• Admin: activeadmin
• Assets: slim, jQuery, ES6, sprockets, babel-transpiler
• Track changes audit: paper_trail
• Exceptions tracking & logging: rollbar

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3 Setup

• Install packages: bundle
• Create database: rails db:create
• Run database migrations: rails db:migrate
• Populate your secrets.yml file for various API keys, etc
• Run server: rails s
• Run jobs: rake jobs:work
• Run tests: rspec spec/
• Run rake task to create plans for subscriptions: rake theater:create_plans