CSC 322.01, Class 31: Project Check-ins

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Extra credit
  • Questions

Mayflower

Goals for this spring

• Create non-working search page to show UI/structure [1 point]
• Create database for search page to use [previous sprint]
• Get the Ransack gem to work [3 points]
• Wrap up working search page [2 points]
• Click on name [3 points]
• Fix all the skipped steps in Cucumber in login tests [5 points]
• Discuss admin capabilities [3 points]
• Write tests for admin capabilities [5 points]
• Limit access to some pages so that only Admin can save them [1 point]
• Allow admin to edit users [5 points, this sprint]
• Allow admin to edit residents [5 points, next sprint]
• Demo app [1 point]
• Met with clients [2 points]

Notes

• Met with clients. Generally good.
• Could not present; Wireless issues.
• They will distribute passwords to users; we will distribute passwords to them.

Volunteer board

Goals

• Create user login [2 points]
• Get devise working with organizations [4 points]
  • Should be 2, but users were complicated
• Tests for users [2 points]
• Tests for events [2 points]
• Tests for organizations [2 points]
• Exploring user views [1 point]
• Get calendar working [2 points]
• Search bar [2 points]
• Profile page [2 points]
• Getting admins to work [2 points]

Notes

• Hitting large numbers of strange errors
  • When they added devise, they got a bunch of new views that they need to look at.
  • Solution to one odd problem: Redo.

SpamR

Goals

• Search bar [3 points]
  • Using Gem
• Tag buttons that automatically filter [3 points]
  • Home
  • Individual message pages
• Automatically fetching email [2 points]
• Limiting number of messages on a page [2 points]
• Styling messages on home page and individual message pages [2 points]

Issues

• Admin redirection.

Job board

Goals

• Saved postings [3 points]
  • Done
• Make an account page which lets you see saved postings and edit account settings [5 points]
• Finished filtering [5 points]
  • Multi-spring endeavor
• Added Captchas to the new post. [1 point]
• Talked to PM about modifications [1 point]
• Markdown interpreter to posts [1 point]
• Expire and archive posts [5 points]
• Think about UI for searching archived posts [1 point]
• Timeouts [1 point]
• Talk to ITS about getting a VM [1 point]
• Choose a name [1 point]

Questions

• How do we create admins? Seed file plus admins can create accounts.
• Do we need different levels of admin? No.
• Can we host it on ITS? They should be able to get a VM.
• Seed for demos.

Curricular planning

Goals

• Implement CanCan and Rolify [2 points]
• Revert to single user in devise [1 point]
• Finish separation of users (admin vs. faculty vs. students) [3 points]
  • Using CanCan and Rolify
  • Overriding create method to use Rolify
  • Moving from console
• Dashboard
  • Front end [3 points]
  • Controller [2 points]
  • HTML form [2 points]
  • Test [2 points]
  • Shows appropriate info (course, prof, enrollment)
  • Faculty/admin can add new semesters and offerings
  • Students can check “I plan to take this”
• Query for dashboard [2 points]
• Edit pages
  • Next sprint
• Archive semesters?
  • Next sprint
• Get organized
  • Soon!