Rails Engine Lite Extensions

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Once your Rails Engine project is complete, you may choose any of the following extensions for additional points:

• Complete all of the find_one/find_all endpoints (Part 2)
• Complete all of the “edge cases” tests and see if you can get the entire test suites to pass for both Part 1 and Part 2.
• Implement pagination for GET /api/v1/items and GET /api/v1/merchants. These Endpoints should:
  • render a JSON representation of all records of the requested resource, one “page” of data at a time
  • allow for the following OPTIONAL query parameters to be sent by the user:
  • per_page, an integer value of how many resources should be in the output; defaults to 20 if not specified by the user
  • page, an integer value of a “page” of resources to skip before returning data; defaults to 1 if not specified by the user
  • do not use any third-party gems for pagination

  Example use of query parameters:

  • GET /api/v1/items?per_page=50&page=2
  • GET /api/v1/merchants?per_page=50&page=2

  This should fetch items 51 through 100, since we’re returning 50 per “page”, and we want “page 2” of data. If a user tries to fetch a page for which there is no data, then data should report an empty array.