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Project: My Favorite Beer (Tentative title)

An app that allows users to choose their favorite breweries in America! You can sort brewery's by their state (or maybe city) and add them to your personal list! Users can see all their favorited breweries, see an individual breweries information, remove a brewery from their personal list. They cannot add, edit or delete a brewery. Admins can add, edit or delete breweries along with creating categories for the breweries.

Categories (brewery specialty)

• breweries belong to a category
• categories can be created and destroyed by a logged-in admin user

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Setting Group Expectations

Group Member Names: Julian, Alexis, Scott & Admir

1. 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?

• Scott: Weekends (Not too early on weekends)
• Julian: Pretty much open at all times
• Alex: M,W,F 4-6pm (Workout). Stay till 9-10pm normally. Saturday (Early morning chores) Sunday (past Mid-afternoon)
• Admir: W (2:30 - 3:00 pm)

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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?

  • To concatenate files is to add files together.
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  • You would conecatenate files to limit the amount of times we make a trip to the server.

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

  • Before we send a file to the browser, we have to precompile it to a language that the browser can handle (HTML, CSS & JS).
  • If we are using a language that makes it easier to program in a certain language like Coffeescript, Sass or ERB, we have to first precompile it before serving it up to the browser.

• 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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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. Run RAILS_ENV=production rake db:create db:migrate db:seed
4. Run rake secret and copy the output
5. From the command line: export SECRET_KEY_BASE=output-of-rake-secret
6. To precompile your assets, run rake assets:precompile. This will create a folder public/assets that contains all of your assets.
7. 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. Add public/assets to your .gitignore

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The Pivot

Julian, Heidi, July & Jerrod

• What does each group member hope to get out of the project? What are your goals and expectations for the project?
• Julian - Some awesome JS functionality and jumping into browfield project
• Jerrod - JavaScript stuff. Working on soft skills.
• Heidi - Push myself with JavaScript. Solid 4's with good work habits. Stay organized.
• July - Brownfield codebase. Having good workflow. Make something FUN!!! FUN FUN FUN!
• 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?
• Julian - Tonight & part of tomrrow I have do get some things done. Besides that open.

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What is an INNER JOIN?

An INNER JOIN combines two tables with matches. Any values that do not have a match are not returned.

What is a LEFT OUTER JOIN?

A LEFT OUTER JOIN will return all rows from the left table, regardless if there is a matching row in the right table. For the values that do not have a matching row on the right table, null is returned. Any rows in the right table that do not have a match are not returned.

What is a RIGHT OUTER JOIN?

A RIGHT OUTER JOIN will return all rows from the right table, regardless if there is a matching row in the left table.

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Testing external services with VCR

Why would you want to test an external service (API)?

• Talk about how API's can change suddenly
• How VCR can help catch regressions
• Peace of mind that you are hiting the correct endpoints

Setting up VCR in your Rails project

• Cloning down the repo
• Seupt (Gemfile, rails_helper, etc...)

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Nodeschool.io JavaScripting

Introduction

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Variables

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Lololodash

Lo-Dash is a JavaScript library that gives us helpers for working with array, objects and JSON.

Personal question: When should we use Lo-Dash as opposed to ES5 / ES6 methods?

Getting Started

• To use Lo-Dash, we need to require it into our file: var _ = require('lodash');
• _.filter takes a collection as its first argument and properties as is second. The properties is what we use to filter through the collection

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Leap

My code: here

• Responder #1 here - Does not make use of the ES6 features like the class keyword. I do like how he broke up into readable variables. Overall a pretty clean solution.
• Responder #2 here - As the above responder, does not make use of ES6 features. The logic is kind of confusing due to the many nested if / else if / else statements. Could use a refactor for better clarity.
• Responder #3 here - No use of ES6, but this is the cleanest solution I have run across yet! A very simple inline statement that is not hard to read. Good use of a "guard" condition.
• Responder #4 here - Slight variation from respnonder #4. Insetad of having a guard statement all of