Hardware Checkout
For hardware checkout, we have a bunch of hardware items in our system that we want to checkout to our users. In order to do this, we created a new model called hardware checkout which basically creates an object that ties a user to a specific hardware item. See relational database below
There are two models in the hardware registration system. One is the hardware item and the other one is the hardware_checkout.
Represents a basic hardware item that has a category, count, and many other attributes (see image above).
A checkout represents when an attendee checks out an item. A checkout is tied to a user and a hardware item. Every time a checkout is made, the count of the hardware item decreases by one. Only available hardware items can be checked out. When an item is returned the hardware_checkout object on our database is simply deleted.