Covenant College Course Scheduler¶ ↑

A Couse Scheduler web application I made for my college so that students can schedule their classes without their advisors. I made this using Ruby on Rails and experimented with Google’s new materialize design pattern, which I grow to love.

This project is hosted on heroku at covenantadvising.herokuapp.com

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For Developers¶ ↑

Email me for any errors: obed.tandadjaja@gmail.com or obed.tandadjaja@covenant.edu

Visit the Github wiki of this project for coding guidelines

How to get the application running:

• Ruby version - make sure you have the newest version of ruby

• Installed Rails - if you haven’t then go to this link railsapps.github.io/installing-rails.html and follow the instruction

• System dependencies - as long as you have a running laptop

• Configuration - none at this moment, the app is going to run under development state (ENV=develop)

• Database creation + initialization: type rake db:drop db:seed db:build

  - rake db:drop -- drops the current database if exists
  - rake db:seed -- seeds the tables; right now the only seed is the test user (email: test@test.com, password: testing). Later on we need to seed in the courses, majors, minors, distributions and their connection to each other.
  - rake db:build -- creates the database, migrates the tables, loads the courses, its prerequisites, majors and its courses, and minors and its courses.
  
  To access the database simply type "mysql -uroot" in the command line. However, make sure that mysql is installed on your computer to do this.
  -> once in mysql, type "use Advising_development;" to set a default database to be "operated" on
  -> type "exit" to exit mysql

• How to run the test suite

  To run the RoR application, do the following:
  - go to the directory of the project
  - run command "bundle install"
  - to start the RoR server, simply type: "rails server"
  - look at the port listed on your command line and go to your browser, type in: "http://localhost:_port_/" - replace _port_ with the port listed in your command line

• Other useful commands

  To know all the routes of the app
  - rake routes
  
  To generate a model
  - rails generate model model_name
  
  To generate a controller
  - rails generate controller controller_name
  
  Shortcut to running the many rake tasks we have
  - rake db:build
  - right now db:build encompasses the following rake tasks in this order:
      - db:create
      - db:migrate
      - db:load_courses
      - db:load_cos_concentrations
      - db:load_distributions
      - db:load_cos_major
      - db:load_cos_minor
      - db:load_cos_prerequisites
  
  To generate a report of a student's schedule organized by semester
  - rake db:report[student_email,desired_filename.txt]
  - e.g. rake db:report[linda@test.com,linda.txt]
  
  To generate a report of a student's schedule organized by major/minor/etc.
  - rake db:report_by_major[student_email,desired_filename.txt]
  - rake db:report_by_major[linda@test.com,linda.txt]

Please feel free to use a different markup language if you do not plan to run rake doc:app.