Karmen Blake - Courses

Final Assignment Specifications

2008-06-02T06:34:00Z

CIS 284
Final
Due June 10th by midnight

To turn in:

create new rails app called lastname_final
zip up assignment
email to kblake.scc@gmail.com

Objectives:

Reiterate material covered so far this quarter
- RESTful Routes
- ActiveRecord and Validations
- Forms
- Sorting
- Layouts
- Flash messages
- Partials
- Helpers (custom and built-in (cycle, h))
- Meaningful Titles
- Before filters
- “Fat Models, Skinny Controllers”
- Pagination
New material
- Authentication
- belongs_to/has_many associations
- Nested routes

To do:

Create a website that allows a user to manage a collection of drinks (user has many drinks.
Give the drink model at least 4 attributes.
Create another model called profile and associate a user to it so that a “user has one profile”.
The profile model must have at least 4 attributes.
A user should be able to perform CRUD operations on their login, profile, and drinks.
Fulfill the objectives listed above

Extra Credit: Implement one or more of these in your final

I usually don’t give help with EC. If you do it, cool, otherwise don’t worry about it.
Use of one or more Ajax helpers described in Chapter 12, pages 445-467.
Use of one or more widgets from: http://www.slideshare.net/paolo.dona/rails-widgets-by-paolo-dona-at-railstoitaly
http://dummied.org/archives/2007/4/11/endless_pageless_an_unobstrusive_pageless_pagination_in/
http://jimneath.org/2008/05/15/swfupload-paperclip-and-ruby-on-rails/
Something else? Go ahead and ask me. :)

Nested Routes Lecture

2008-06-01T13:11:00Z

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Final Assignment coming soon

2008-05-29T22:24:00Z

I’ll be creating another screencast showing how to do nested resources. This will be accompanied by an assignment. It should be coming out in a few days.

Model Associations Lecture

2008-05-28T15:24:00Z

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Ok, remind me not to create screencasts after 10:00 p.m. I have another 5 minute spot towards the end where I’m off in lala land. You can fast forward through it or use it as ammunition for our next conversation. :)

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RESTFul Authentication Lecture

2008-05-22T15:29:00Z

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I apologize for some delayed times in the screencast (plugin download starting at 1:48 to 2:50) and my space-out, air-head moment (starting at 18:30 to 22:10) on the login and logout routes. Feel free to fast forward through those sections.

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Outline for next set of lectures

2008-05-20T04:41:00Z

RESTful Authentication

http://railscasts.com/episodes/67
Chapter 14 of The Rails Way (NOTE: use as a reference for use not for setup because the plugin setup is different. Some code is the same and the explanations are pretty good.)

ActiveRecord Associations

The Rails Way, Chapter 7
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails/ActiveRecord/Associations
http://www.patchedsoftware.com/RailsEnvy-ActiveRecord.mov (good section right on the middle of the talk)
http://www.slash7.com/cheats/activerecord_cheatsheet.pdf
http://biodegradablegeek.com/2007/12/26/understanding-basic-database-relationships-in-rails/ (the migration syntax is outdated, but the concepts are the same)

Nested Routes

The Rails Way – Chapter 4
http://www.akitaonrails.com/2007/12/12/rolling-with-rails-2-0-the-first-full-tutorial

Sorting a collection and will_paginate

2008-05-12T23:13:00Z

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Assignment 2

2008-05-12T16:45:00Z

CIS 284
Assignment 2
Due by Sunday, May 18th by midnight

To turn in:

zip up rails app named lastname_app, thus, lastname_app.zip
email and attach zipped file (do not rename zip, send as is) to kblake.scc@gmail.com
subject line: full name, cis 284, assignment name

Sharpen your skills and helpful techniques:

To do:

You’ll be updating your KraigsList application
- Update your website to have meaningful titles
- use the h helper where appropriate
- use the cycle helper to prettify your listing
- clean up controllers and views using techniques shown in lectures: before_filters, helpers, and partials, skinny-contoller/fat model
- paginate your listing
- Add Web 2.0 graphic(s) to your site (Have fun but don’t go overboard (remember blink and marquee))
  - http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/06/20/30-resources-to-create-your-own-web-20-site/
  - Create your own: http://creatr.cc/creatr/
Extra Credit:
- Add a select list with these options title, price, email. The select list will be used to allow a user to sort by a given field. The default will be ascending. Add a checkbox where a user can select to have the list sorted in descending order.
- Add a submit, so that when clicked does a form submission and returns a collection sorted in the user selected order.
- Use Rails helpers to generate the form elements.

will_paginate plugin

2008-05-11T10:30:00Z

For those who could not install the will_paginate plugin as shown in my lecture and book, I’ve provided a downloadable zip you can use. Download the file and unzip into your RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins directory. I’ve never done it this way but theoretically should work. Let me know.

Download zipped will_paginate

Assignment...

2008-05-09T16:18:00Z

coming soon…

Lecture: cycle, h, refactored partials, before_filter

2008-05-05T15:32:00Z

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Outline for next set of lectures

2008-05-01T04:28:00Z

dynamic titles (http://railscasts.com/episodes/30)
helper methods:
- cycle (pg. 394 – The Rails Way)
- h (pgs. 319-320 – The Rails Way)
- custom helpers (chapter 11 pgs. 407+ (The Rails Way) controller-specific, application-level)
filters (Chapter 2 – The Rails Way)
- before_filter to find a record
Fat models, skinny controller (jamis buck, http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/18/skinny-controller-fat-model)
partials of collections instead of iteration (Chapter 10 – The Rails Way, http://railscasts.com/episodes/80)
will_paginate (Chapter 11 – The Rails Way, http://errtheblog.com/posts/56-im-paginating-again, http://railscasts.com/episodes/51)

Rails: Layout and Flash notices

2008-04-23T16:06:00Z

Concepts:

Layouts (Chapter 10)
Flash notices

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Introduction to Rails articles

2008-04-22T15:25:00Z

Nice introductory articles about Rails:

DHH talk

2008-04-21T20:02:00Z

DHH talking about making money; more business oriented. He does talk a little about software development in his question/answer session. Overall very interesting.

http://christophemaximin.com/articles/2008/04/21/the-secret-to-making-money-online-by-my-hero-dhh