📍 Roterize - Backend

Roterize is a smart assistant that helps people plan special moments - like romantic dates, friend hangouts, or meaningful time with family - by generating personalized activity itineraries based on preferences, location, budget, and time.

This repository contains the backend API, built with Ruby on Rails, using MongoDB as the data store.

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✨ Features

• User registration and authentication (JWT)
• Create and manage custom "moments" (planned experiences)
• Personalized route generation
• Location-aware suggestions
• Store and retrieve recommended places
• Collect feedback from users to improve future suggestions

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails 7
• MongoDB with mongoid
• JWT for API authentication
• RSpec for testing
• Dotenv-Rails for environment configs
• Rack-CORS for handling cross-origin requests

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

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🐳 Running with Docker

1. Build the containers

docker-compose build --no-cache

2. Start the services

docker-compose up

3. Run Rails commands (like migrations or console)

docker exec -u root -it roterize-api-web-1 bundle exec rails <your-command>

🧪 Testing

Run the test suite inside the web container using the test environment (GitHub‑flavored Markdown friendly commands):

# All specs
docker exec -e RAILS_ENV=test -e RACK_ENV=test -it roterize-api-web-1 bundle exec rspec

# Verbose output (documentation formatter)
docker exec -e RAILS_ENV=test -e RACK_ENV=test -it roterize-api-web-1 bundle exec rspec --format doc