Presentation Notes

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The Perfect Excuse
Screwed up? Need an excuse? We've got you covered. Search through a list of excuses for several occasions and vote for the most popular ones to the top. You can also sign up for an account to add your own personal excuse.

Technologies Used

- Rails 5, Ruby
- PostgresQL DB, JSON API
- Many to Many Through Relationship : Occasions, Excuses
- One to Many Relationship: Users
- Javascript Web Token
- Express, AngularJS, Node
- HTML, Javascript
- CSS Responsive Design
- RESTful Routes (Full: Excuses, Users - Partial: Occasions)

Shows off all features of the app

• Once you’ve signed up and logged in, you’ll be able to create, update, and delete your personal excuses.
• A user will also have access to their profile in which you’ll be able to update username and password or delete the whole account.
• We also added a sort/filter feature that when you click on a occasion, you get a list of all the excuses associated with that occasion.
• We also added a counter feature (don’t have to be a user to use it) which works like a like button.
• Using that counter feature we also added a section that shows that top three excuses.

Explains the technical details

• The Perfect Excuse is a single page application that uses Rails, Ruby, Express and Angular.
• For our authentication we used Javascript Web Tokens instead of sessions.
• We have Full CRUD on Excuses, Users and Partial CRUD on Occasions.
• CSS responsive design (mobile friendly)

Explains the technical challenges

• Encountered a bug when creating a new account, only accepter numeric values greater than 6
• Update/Delete buttons appear for created excuses only upon click of 'show your excuses' from profile. Do not disappear with click of 'show all'.

Explains which improvements you might make

• Checkboxes for creation of excuse (many to many)
• User can see a list of their own top 10 excuses
• Additional data visualization for top excuses.

What went well for your group?

• Everyone was really flexible with their times (Especially with time zone differences)
• All willing to jump in to help and take on whatever was needed.
• Really liked how for this project everyone just wanted to learn and have fun rather than being serious and stressed about it.
• We definitely had an environment that fostered learning and giving opportunities.

What was your groups biggest struggle?

What was the most useful tool that your group relied on the most

• Slack and Zoom.
• Zenhub worked as checklist

What was the most surprising aspect of working in a group/a thing (or things) you didn’t anticipate