Stacks - Jackie - Media Ranker

[jackiewatanabe]

Media Ranker

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Describe a custom model method you wrote.	I wrote custom models methods for the Work model to sort works by category/votes and to choose the top ten for each category as well as the number one work
Describe how you approached testing that model method. What edge cases did you come up with?	I didn't get around to testing the custom method :(
Describe an edge case test you wrote for a controller	in the movies controller, I tested to make sure no new objects were added to the database if invalid data was entered
What are session and flash? What is the difference between them?	session and flashes are special hashes. Flash stores one-time messages. Session stores information about the user and that information stays until the user closes their browser or the data is manually removed.
Describe a controller filter you wrote.	???
What was one thing that you gained more clarity on through this assignment?	That you can have more controllers than you have models in an application.
What is the Heroku URL of your deployed application	https://mysterious-beyond-38414.herokuapp.com/
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?

[kariabancroft]

Media Ranker

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Looks good
Comprehension questions	Yes
General
Rails fundamentals (RESTful routing, use of named paths)	Yes
Semantic HTML	Not too much - though you used it on the index and show pages
Errors are reported to the user	Yes - using flash. It would be good to practice using the status codes for other error scenarios.
Business logic lives in the models	Yes - some methods to retrieve specific items in the work model
Model testing	Yes - nice job checking validity and the errors
Controller testing	Yes - you got good practice with this syntax and trying out a variety of controller actions
Wave 1 - Media
Splash page shows the three media categories	Yes
Basic CRUD operations on media are present and functional	Yes
Wave 2 - Users and Votes
Users can log in and log out	Yes
The ID of the current user is stored in the session	Yes
Individual user pages and the user list are present	Yes - looks great!
A user cannot vote for the same media more than once	Yes - nice job implementing this feature
All media lists are ordered by vote count	Yes - great
Splash page contains a media spotlight	Yes
Media pages contain lists of voting users	Yes
Wave 3 - Styling
Foundation is used appropriately	Yes
Look and feel is similar to the original	Yes
Overall	You did a really nice job with the features of this application, hitting the testing learning goals and exploring foundation.