Todo Rails

[jamesdabbs]

Due on Mar 04 @ 09:00am Build a robust Todo list manager using Rails

Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should:

• Be familiar with several of the core Rails conventions
• Be more comfortable with the routing-to-controller flow
• Understand using Devise to manage a secure user system

  Performance Objectives

• Use get and post to define routes
• Use as: ... to define path helpers; use those - don't hardcode paths
• Lean on Devise to implement a user system, but integrate it with your site navigation
• Where possible, port over your previous model logic; where impossible, reflect on why

  Details

  Deliverables

A repo containing a Rails app with the following:

Requirements

Normal Mode

• Users can register accounts, and must be logged in to do much of anything
• Users can perform all the standard CRUD actions on Lists and Items that they own; users can't see other users' lists (logged in or not)
• Make sure that Lists and Items validate apporpriately, and display good error messages when applicable

  Hard Mode

• TDD it!
• Deploy the app to Heroku
• Add filtering options to only show complete / incomplete / all Items in a List

[rob-hutchinson]

https://github.com/rob-hutchinson/todo-rails

My interface doesn't look very good but I was more concerned with practicing using rails than making the html and css look pretty. I couldn't get the delete function to work.

[rob-hutchinson]

Wait! I got deletes to work after today's lecture. Forgot about / didn't know about button_to or form_tag.

[kdmcclin]

One thing I noticed is that if I try to go somewhere that I don't have permission to, say '/lists/2' or something, then sign in, it redirects me to that '/lists/2' page whether it exists or not. Not a huge problem, but definitely something that you'd want to think about on a larger project.

Also, I can see lists belonging to other users.

[kdmcclin]

Double checking today, but I can see the list belonging to the other use and the page where you add items to that list, but then it errors out (as it should) because "Couldn't find List with 'id'=1 [WHERE "lists"."user_id" = ?]".