CSC 322.01, Class 19: Project check-ins

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Questions
• Mayflower
• Volunteer board
• Job board
• Curricular planning
• SpamR

News / Etc.

• Sam unavailable Wednesday and Friday.

Upcoming work

• Normal progress.
• Get ready for Monday’s presentations

Good things to do

• Technology and Human Rights
• CS Table
• CS Extras

Questions

Mayflower

Plans

• Meet with IT guy from Mayflower [2 points]
  • Set up meeting for Wednesday.
• Finalize consent form and distribute to residents [2 points]
  • Done. Added nicknames.
• user pages: Search results [5 points]
  • Found some gems
• user pages: Profile [5 points]
• user pages: ??? [5 points]
  • Oh, oonly two.
• Decide on testing framework [2 points]
  • Looking at other tests for other Devise projects.
  • But having trouble adapting them.
• Tests for login page [3 points]
• Tests for search [4 points]
• Tests for admin login [3 points]
• Login page [5 points]
  • Sam helped them stabilize using the legendary reset the database.
• Admin user model [3 points]
  • Looking at combining ActiveAdmin, Devise, cancancan. We hope that they are meant to work together.
• Demo to clients [3 points]
  • Nothing to demo yet, but meeting with clients on Wednesday, too.
• Added: Conversation with ITS
  • Not that productive

Notes

• Turns out it was really too much

Needs help with

• Thinking about testing.
• Thinking about database model. Can’t find anything.
• Assign us an alumni mentor, please!

Volunteer board

Task status

• Create models for everything
  • Note that they wanted to have models and entry pages
  • Organization: [2 points]
    • Good progress
  • User: [2 points]
    • Was getting errors from files generated by Rails
    • Giving up and starting again
  • Admin: [2 points]
    • Using ActiveAdmin; figuring out how to get default user
    • Have .rb files customize.
  • Event: [2 points]
    • How do we do start and end time. Decision DataTime
• Design event calendar / find gem / integrate [5 points]
  • Has done some research.
  • Fairly confident that it’s understood.
  • Thinking about various issues

Help

• Can I have objects automatically create other objects?

Job board

Plans

• Make a job form [4 points]
  • Mostly done, but not the right route.
• Some skinning of the app so that it doesn’t look the same as SpamR [3 points]
  • Working on that right now.
• Look into admin gems [2 points]
  • Not yet.
• Look into auxiliary email thing [2 points]
  • Works on one person’s machine, not elsewhere.

Help

• Nothing right now.

Curricular planning

Plans

• Create login page [2 points]
  • They have a landing page, which is in progress.
• Decide on test suite [2 points]
  • Minitest
• Design student view [2 points]
  • Student and professor view are similar.
  • As they split things up they will partially solve
• Verification of course models [2 points]
  • Only saves the data when it’s complete.
  • Done, except for testing.
• Landing root route [3 points]
  • In progress.
• Devise: User editing passwords [1 point]
  • Works
• Devise: Sign out [1 point]
  • Works.
• Set up testing frameworkwork [2 points]
  • Done.

Help

• Unify environments

SpamR

Goals

• Recieve emails. 3 points.
  • Found an approach
  • It works!
• Parse emails so that they can be on the Web site. 2 points.
  • Working on that
  • There’s a Gem, but it doesn’t work very well.
• Write steps for Cucumber. 5 points.
  • Test succeed for login page
  • Still trying to figure out how to check if an email confirmation is successfully sent. (Use dummies)
• Set up cancancan or other admin gem. 3 points.
  • Scrapped.
  • Using ActiveAdmin and cancancan. But getting BackTrace error.

Help

• Should we use a tagging gem?