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Length	Points	Week
20 minutes	10	Week 2

The Concept of Require - Research

When you start working with WebPack for GameTime, you'll notice that you can't just define a variable in one file and find it in another as easily as you can in Rails.

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Length	Points	Week
15 minutes	5	Week 1

ES6 Research

Throughout the module (and your journey to Google enlightenment while working on IdeaBox2.0) you may notice a few different ways that JavaScript code is being written.

That might have something to do with something called ES6 and ES5

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##Word Count My code: here

• Responder #1 (here) - This approach was pretty similar to mine. They used the same exact technique to initially reformat the string as an array. Instead of a using a for loop with if/else conditionals to create the word list object, they used reduce and a ternary statement to condense the code into just a few lines.

• Responder #2 (here) - This response used the match method with whitespace as an argument to get an array of all words. They changed each word to lower case inside of a for loop. Their conditions in the loop were basically the same as mine, except they were each condition was put on only one line. They explicitly checked in a condition was undefined, which could be implied and is not neccesary to write.

• Responder #3 ([here](http://exercism.io/submissions/d99b45a0

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1. rails new <project_name> -d postgresql --skip-turbolinks --skip-spring -T

• -d postgresql sets up the project to use PostgreSQL
• --skip-turbolinks & --skip-spring creates a project that does not use turbolinks or spring
• -T skips the creation of the test directory and use of Test::Unit

2. In the Gemfile:

• Available to all environments:
  • gem 'figaro' - store environment variables securely across your app (docs)
  • Uncomment gem 'bcrypt', '~> 3.1.7' if you will be hosting your own user accounts with passwords (docs)
• Inside of group :test:
  • gem 'rspec-rails' - user rspec in place of minitest (docs)

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1. Add gem 'rails_12factor' to your Gemfile. This will add error logging and the ability for your app to serve static assets.
2. bundle
3. Go to into database.yml and change username to the name of your computer (type whoami into command line)
4. Run RAILS_ENV=production rake db:create db:migrate db:seed
5. Run rake secret and copy the output
6. From the command line: export SECRET_KEY_BASE=output-of-rake-secret
7. To precompile your assets, run rake assets:precompile. This will create a folder public/assets that contains all of your assets.
8. Run RAILS_ENV=production rails s and you should see your app.

Remember to clobber your assets (rake assets:clobber) and re-precompile (rake assets:precompile) if you make changes.

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• What does it mean to concatenate files? Find an image of an example concatenated file. Why would we want to concatenate files?

Take contents from all files and puts them together in one file

• What does it mean to precompile files? What does this have to do with coffeescript and sass files?

Takes abstractions of languages (ie SASS and Coffeescript) and preprocess them down into native languages (CSS & Javascript)

• What does it mean to minify files? Find an image of an example minified file. Why would we want to minify files?

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Setting Group Expectations

Group Member Names:

When are group members available to work together? What hours can each group member work individually? Are there any personal time commitments that need to be discussed?

Pat - Doing meet and greet this weekend and moving to Denver next weekend. Good at remote work. Pat will be here from 9-4. Pending weekend hours. Will check in again on Friday re weekend. More inclined to work in the morning.

Yoseph - Wants to attend to meetups. Usually occur at 5-6. Will give us 24 hour notice. Arrives at 7, no time restriction to leave.

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#####What is a cookie?

• HTTP is a stateless protocol and does not pass information along, and a cookie is a way to track and store information

#####What's the difference between a cookie and a session?

• A session is an encrypted, serialized cookie, often used to store large amounts of info. Both are stored in the browser

#####What's serialization and how does it come into play with cookies?

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What is a primary key?

Totally unique identifier for a table A primary key automatically generates and increments from previous record (never reused)

What is a foreign key?

A primary key of a table that is used in another table to relate the two tables

Why would one row of data have both primary and foreign keys?

What is Rails' convention for the column name of the primary key?

id

What is Rails' convention for the column name of a foreign key?

foreign_table_id

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Project workflow:

0. Load/Reload waffle.

• Find all tasks

1. Choose a card from the backlog in waffle. If we're working separately, it's best to move that card that you've chosen into ready and perhaps assign it to yourself as well.

• Pick out a specific task to work on

2. git checkout master

• Make sure you are on the master branch

3. git pull origin master

• Retrieve the most up-to-date version of the project

4. run rspec