CSC 322.01, Class 34: Project Reports

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Questions
• Time to prep
• Presentations (a bit more time)

News / Etc.

Upcoming work

Good things to do

• CS table tomorrow.
• CS extras Thursday

Questions

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]
  • Broken. No.
• Tests for events [2 points]
  • Yes.
• Tests for organizations [2 points]
  • No.
• Exploring user views [1 point]
  • Done.
• Get calendar working [2 points]
  • Yes.
• Search bar [2 points]
  • No.
• Profile page [2 points]
  • Yes.
• Getting admins to work [2 points]
  • No

Velocity: 13

Demo

• There’s a non-working, non-explained “Private” box.
• Users can currently create events, but they shouldn’t.
• How do you tell if someone can update the event?
• Multiple ways to view events.

Plans for final sprint

• Fix tests for users [2 points]
• Write tests for organizations [1 point]
• Link events to users and organizations [2 points]
• Add private flag [1 points]
• Fix bug in admin login [2 points]
• Admin approval of orgs [3 points]
• Write documentation [3 point]

Questions

• Can we change private flag? Yes.
• Will you be at MVP? No. Minimally working, but will still need things to make it nicer.
• Will anyone be back? No.

Job board

Goals

• Saved postings [3 points]
  • Done
• Make an account page which lets you see saved postings and edit account settings [5 points]
  • Done
• Finished filtering [5 points]
  • Multi-sprint endeavor
• Added Captchas to the new post. [1 point]
  • Done
• Talked to PM about modifications [1 point]
  • Done
• Markdown interpreter to posts [1 point]
  • Done
• Expire and archive posts [5 points]
  • Done
• Think about UI for searching archived posts [1 point]
  • No
• Timeouts - automatic logout [1 point]
  • Yes
• Talk to ITS about getting a VM [1 point]
  • No
• Choose a name [1 point]
  • No

Velocity: 22 points

Demo

• Anyone can create a posting. But it has to be approved by an admin.
• You can save any job to your account.
• Mulitple search criteria possible. Yay Ransack!
• How does it work without Javascript? Probably not so well.
• Anyone with a grinnell.edu account can make an account.

Final sprint

• Check Javascript and fix if necessary [3 points]
• ITS [1 point]
• Name [1 point]
• Make archives searchable in a useful way [2 points]
• Drop-down menu [2 points]
• Document [4 points]
• Preview posts [3 points]
• HTML Injections [2 points]
• UI hook for unsaving [1 point]
• Add location field [1 point]
• Add contact field [1 point]

Questions

• How do we limit the user to grinnell.edu? Devise plus regular expressions.
• csc for computer science careers.
• Will you support for free? Yes. Nick will.
• MVP by the end of the semester? Yes, provided we can host.

Long-term goals

• Parsing.

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]

Demo

• Seems to be mostly working.
• Improve UI for for tagging.

Goals

• Write tests and documentation [3 points]
• Dry out code [2 points]
• Show messages from a certain time period [2 point]
• Differentiate user and admin [3 points]
• Heroku compatible [2 points]
• Talk to ITS about server? [1 point]
• Explore attachments [2 points]

Questions

• MVP? Yes.
• Continue? Maybe.
• How are you getting your email from gmail? pop3!

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] NO
  • 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]

Velocity: 16

Demo

• It looks like most parts are working.
• The faculty member cannot look at who is planning to take each course (except through database access)

Final sprint

• Fix tests [2 points]
• Student interest POST reuests [2 points]
• Course description popover [2 points]
• Root route / landing page [3 points]
• Section numbers [1 point]
• Make it pretty [3 points]
• Verify email [2 points]
• Editing courses [2 points]
• Editing offerings [2 points]
• Archive semesters [1 point]
• Correct ordering of semesters [1 point]
• Correct ordering of courses within semesters [1 point]

Long-term

• Allow admin to view data without resorting to SQL>

Questions

• Past semesters? Archiving. Manually.

• Edit pages
  • Next sprint
  • Next sprint
• Get organized
  • Soon!

Mayflower

Goals for this sprint

• Create mockup of 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]

Final sprint

• Make about/contact pages using specs [2 points]
• Talk to clients [1 points]
• Search features tests [3 points]
• Revise tests for admin/login and document [3 points]
• Admin create and edit new users [5 points]
• Something else [3 points]
• Add photos [3 points]
• Styling [3 points]
• Documentation [3 points]

Demo

• It works!
• Users and Residents are different

Questions

• MVP? Yes.