Code challenge

Criteria for the output file.

Any user that belongs to a company in the companies file and is active needs to get a token top up of the specified amount in the companies top up field.

If the users company email status is true indicate in the output that the user was sent an email ( don't actually send any emails). However, if the user has an email status of false, don't send the email regardless of the company's email status.

Companies should be ordered by company id. Users should be ordered alphabetically by last name.

Important points

• There could be bad data
• The code should be runnable in a command line
• Code needs to be cloneable from github
• Code file should be named challenge.rb

How to install python using brew (for MacOS)

Step 1: Install Homebrew (If Not Installed)

• Open the Terminal.

• Install Homebrew, a package manager, by executing the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Step 2: Install Python 3.12

• In the Terminal, run the command brew install [email protected] to install Python 3.12:

brew install [email protected]

Step 3: Verify Python Installation

• To ensure Python 3.12 is installed correctly, run the following command in the Terminal:

python3.12 –version

Step 4: Set Up Virtual Environments (Optional but Recommended)

• Utilize virtual environments for project isolation.

• Create a virtual environment with the command python3.12 -m venv myenv, replacing myenv with your chosen environment name.

• Activate the virtual environment by running source myenv/bin/activate.

• To deactivate it later, simply execute deactivate.

How to run script:

Pull the thrive_challenge from the github and run open terminal in the thrive_challenge folder and run:

python challenge.py

In few seconds you should see output.txt file in the folder

How to run tests

To run the unit tests just place this command in terminal:

python -m unittest tests.TestChallenge

Questions:

1. How should we handle cases where a user references two different companies? Should we add tokens from both companies?
2. Just to confirm, does the company's top-up remain consistent over time? Is it always spendable?
3. What's the protocol if a user or company is missing certain fields? Currently, if essential fields like id, name, or email are absent, I skip them. If tokens or status fields are missing, they default to 0 or false. Should we implement error handling in such cases?
4. How should we handle a user with a non-existent company ID? Currently, I skip such users, but is this the desired behavior?
5. What's the procedure for handling two identical users? Should the last one overwrite the others?
6. I assumed that emails and names were already validated when entered in the challenge. Is this assumption correct?
7. Can tokens ever be negative, both for companies and users? If so, what's the significance of negative token values?