Toy Author Status Inquiry System - A coding exercise for software developer candidates

• A running MongoDB Server (http://www.mongodb.org) - Install if necessary.
• RVM (http://rvm.io)

• Clone the repo
• Use RVM to switch to ruby 1.9.3
• Install the bundle (bundler)
• Seed the database rake db:setup - The database is populated with the following manuscript from db/seeds.rb via Mongoid.

    Manuscript.create(code: 'AA1001', title: 'My awesome paper', status: 'WITH_AUTHOR', :status_date => Date.parse('01Jan2014')) do |m|
      m.authors << Author.new(publish_name: 'Smith,Joe')
      m.authors << Author.new(publish_name: 'Li,Wen')
      m.authors << Author.new(publish_name: 'Jones,Ben')
    end
  

We want to implement a simple author inquiry system for authors to view the status of their submitted manuscripts. Fix the link on the welcome page so that when clicked, the author sees a form that allows him/her to input a code and an author name. When submitted, if the name matches an acceptable author on the specified manuscript, they should be shown a page that displays the title, status, and authors of the manuscript. If the inputs are invalid, the form page should be re-rendered (inputs intact) with a "No match" message.

The specified author name must match the last name of one of the first 3 authors on the specified manuscript to be accepted.

The project already includes Manuscript and Author models. Use Manuscript.find_by_code and Author#last_name to implement the above.

Below are the specifications/rules for the name matching:

• ignore surrounding whitespace and case
• accept match on first 3 chars (e.g. Jon for Jones)
• reject match on less than 3 chars (e.g. Jo for Jones)
• accept exact match for 2 char author name (e.g. Li for Li)
• reject exact match on 1 char author name
• reject mismatch on chars beyond 3 (e.g. reject Jonis for Jones)