Queues - Cynthia Cobb - Media Ranker

[cynthiacd]

Media Ranker

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Describe a custom model method you wrote.	wrote custom methods for the Work model to find top 10 books, movies, and albums
Describe how you approached testing that model method. What edge cases did you come up with?	I had three tests and tested that it returned a collection of items, returned between 0 and 10 and returned nil when there were no works. My edge case was testing when there are no works
Describe an edge case test you wrote for a controller	Made sure to test that the routes and page were still successful when there were no works for each category
What are session and flash? What is the difference between them?	flash allows you to flash messages to the user - session allows you to track a user and determine if they are logged in
Describe a controller filter you wrote.	I did not use a filter method
What was one thing that you gained more clarity on through this assignment?	helper methods and how to test
What is the Heroku URL of your deployed application	https://immense-everglades-99115.herokuapp.com/books?
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	Include a list of topics you can research, on your own, that could help with design. For example routing constraints, filters, and helper-methods

[PilgrimMemoirs]

Media Ranker

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Well Done
Comprehension questions	Well Done - be more specific w/ flash and hash, like what data structure are they and why would you use one over the other?
General
Rails fundamentals (RESTful routing, use of named paths)	Well done
Semantic HTML	Well Done
Errors are reported to the user	Well Done
Business logic lives in the models	Well Done - work model could utilize a single method to handle the top ten methods.
Model testing	Well done - I see you made fixtures but did not use them in the tests - which :let methods could you remove and use your fixture instead?
Controller testing	Well Done
Wave 1 - Media
Splash page shows the three media categories	Well Done
Basic CRUD operations on media are present and functional	Well Done
Wave 2 - Users and Votes
Users can log in and log out	Well Done
The ID of the current user is stored in the session	Well Done
Individual user pages and the user list are present	Well Done
A user cannot vote for the same media more than once	Well Done
All media lists are ordered by vote count	Well Done
Splash page contains a media spotlight	Well Done
Media pages contain lists of voting users	Well Done
Wave 3 - Styling
Foundation is used appropriately	Well Done
Look and feel is similar to the original	Well Done
Overall