spec.md

Specifications for the Sinatra Assessment

Specs:

• Use Sinatra to build the app

  • ➡️ This app is built with Sinatra framework.

• Use ActiveRecord for storing information in a database

  • ➡️ This app uses ActiveRecord to map classes to relational database tables, class associations are defined in app/models.

• Include more than one model class (list of model class names e.g. User, Post, Category)

  • ➡️ This app contains three classes: User, Course, UserCourse.

• Include at least one has_many relationship

  • ➡️ User has_many courses and userCourses.

• Include user accounts

  • ➡️ A user can create her account, either as a student or as an instructor.

• Ensure that users can't modify content created by other users

  • ➡️ A user who is an instructor can edit the courses she is teaching and student enrollment status.

  A user who is a student can edit the courses she is registered for.

  All users can edit their personal account information!

• Include user input validations

  • ➡️ User input validates are both defined in their model definitions, and validated in forms where certain inputs are required.

  For example, the Course model validates :instructor_id, :name, :description, :level. These attributes also validated in the courses/new form, where course name, description, level are required inputs.

• Display validation failures to user with error message

  • ➡️ Validation messages are displayed using rack-flash3 Ruby Gem.

  For example, when a new user sign-up for an account, an error message will be displayed if they do not complete all required fields accurately: Please ensure you have filled in all required fields correctly!

• Your README.md includes a short description, install instructions, a contributors guide and a link to the license for your code

  • ➡️ This app's README file includes all required descriptions.

Confirm:

• You have a large number of small Git commits

  • ➡️ This repo currently has 75 commits

• Your commit messages are meaningful

  • ➡️ All commit messages are descriptive of the changes made, and the corresponding files changes are made in./

• You made the changes in a commit that relate to the commit message

  • ➡️ Changes made in each commit correspomds to the commit message

• You don't include changes in a commit that aren't related to the commit message

  • ➡️ Yes

Stuff To Add:

• [] Navigation system
  • Navbar -> If ! logged_in show signup and login -> I logged in show links to /courses and /courses/new and logout
  • Notifications -> Make sure the notification states the right thing.