== Welcome to The Odin Project v0.1.1
It's game on.
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************************** Major Roadmap **************************
(current dev version) 0.1.2: ???
- As a site owner, I want to send a flash message to site users so I can notify them of important events like office hours. (with selectivity and click to close)
- As a user, I want to know if other users are working on the same material as I am now so I can reach out to work with them
- As a user, I want to be able to reach out to other users so we can work together on the material
- As a user, I want to track my progress through the curriculum so I can see how far I've come and how far I still need to go.
- As a user who might collaborate with another user, I want to know if that user is good to work with so I can decide whether to collaborate with him/her.
- Allow users to see when other users have scheduled availability for a project ahead of time (e.g. I'm on Ruby Project 1 and get a notification that User 2 will be available to work on it together on Thursday)
- Signup current/next design
- Change the top navbar from being fixed to collapsing into a sleek progress bar (right now it takes up too much real estate when the user is scrolling through a lesson)
********************** Current Dev Version TODOs *******************
v0.1.2: Bug Fixes
- Unfix the navbar and/or collapse it into a slim and awesome fixed nav that follows you down the screen. DONE Add sitemap
Bugs and Miscellanea
- Set up cookie and link to send user back to last viewed curriculum spot... note that there will be annoying redirect loop issues if not careful.
- KILL BOOTSTRAP!?! Only needed for: Navbar dropdown, button styles...
- Figure out why the logo image can't be found for attachment to the welcome email
- Someday finish the controller testing for LessonsController and CoursesController with the non-restful routes.
- Bug: when getting referred directly to /scheduler?cb=12345 (e.g. http://www.theodinproject.com/scheduler?cb=3), then immediately clicking into Preferences and removing that project, the redirect from Preferences takes you back to the same referral URL so the project is immediately added back on ... an infinite process. Need to clear the query string or something to prevent this.
********************** General Sandbox ****************************
WRITE JAVASCRIPT TESTS
calendar basic display, calendar population, event creation
USERS
Make a dynamic route matcher to show the user profiles so you can just go to the /users/foobar link instead of /users/1 (hide the IDs)
---- Issues and Gotchas ----
handle all-day events (midnight to midnight-1)? But what about min-time constraints? erb... sensing bug that will come up if someone wants to book 1 hour from an all dayer @ 11pm... Currently allows you to write overlapping calendar events
---- Future stuff ----
http://everydayrails.com/2012/04/07/testing-series-rspec-controllers.html https://gist.github.com/zhengjia/428105
*********************** Version Archive **************************
v0.1.1: Home Page Redesign 3.0, bug fixes
DONE Make more obvious the loading icon when waiting for scheduler data DONE Make more obvious that you can select multiple projects on prefs DONE Make the site better on small screens DONE Darken navbar and footer and resize bars appropriately DONE Paginate students DECLINED Build "next"-style buttons next to the headers on the courses page DONE space out buttons a bit better on main topbox DONE Add some real specs for basic display stuff DONE Write basic tests for curriculum section SOMEHOW WENT AWAY Why do some tests only fail intermittantly??? SORTA DONE Refactor to Remove all legacy splash stuff (mailers, views, controller actions, routes...) DONE Fix basic specs to run (need to create courses/sections etc or remove welcome email somehow from them) DONE Clean up old homepage so it's out of the way and not a redirect to homepage2 or whatever DONE Fix navbar on home page for already-logged-in-users to show logout link DONE Set up redirect for students post-signup for GA to hook onto. DONE Fix devise forms to deal with footer sizing DONE Add content_for titles to the lesson pages DONE Fine tune spacings DONE Add headline images DONE Add in graphics DONE Fix body top padding issue DONE Create nice looking signup confirmation email w/ bcc DONE Review mockups DONE Build out structure DONE Fill in spacings and copy DENIED Add Alpha signup code field to signup form DONE Add static pages like About and Why Odin and FAQ DONE Change links as necessary on blog DONE Create footer with Blog and About and Why Odin links DONE Move scheduler and community and students links under dropdown DONE Review intended user flows and objectives DONE Fix "How do we Pair" link on Scheduler Page
v0.1.0: Bug fixes, Curriculum UI / Navigation improvements,
Curriculum Redesign:
DONE Add this rake-to-update-curriculum feature to the docs
DONE Add the new seed-to-populate curriculum workflow to docs as well
DONE Set up the controller to run from the db instead of hitting github (note: just removed the Lesson.rb method, else it wasn't any change because the method was called content!)
DONE populate using a rake task that runs through all lessons and grabs their content if anything is returned
DONE Add :content text column to lessons to store the md files
DONE Initial deploy
IGNORED deploy backwards compatible with old structure
DONE Set up routing for /curriculum to redirect to /courses
DONE Make sure all external links open in a new tab
DONE Apply styling to project pages based on a project class.
DONE Put quotes around next button text and links
DONE Fix formatting of p's inside li's (less margin)
DONE Code inside pre tags shouldn't have borders
DONE Fix bug with next / prev courses
SORTA Revisit and tighten up copy and message (a journey!)
SORTA Revisit the UX flows and overall design consistency -- Fonts!
DONE Rebuild and remap the curriculum directory and lesson structure
DONE setup seeds to populate real data
DONE Write copy for curriculum pieces
DONE Fix bug with display order of sections
DONE Fix breakpoints for nav to not get in the way of the main navbar
DONE Serve the fonts myself... waiting for google fonts sucks. NO: just reduced the total download payload. Serving myself may not be a better solution here. Each font weight/style is like 200kb!
DONE Link the main courses page better!
DONE Set up divs to link to for sections
DONE Create some sort of nav / header in lesson show
DONE basicc Courses index view
DONE Basic Lessons Index view
DONE Basic Lesson view
DONE Set up linkages between lessons
DONE Set up actual data heirarchy!
DONE Rewrite controller method for github api calls into model method
DONE Routing: /courses/:course_name/lessons/:lesson_name
DONE Populate sample data
DONE Set up new curriculum data models
DONE Set up associations
DONE Add Alpha tag to front page
DONE Remove "private" from alpha release warning
v0.0.7: Curriculum inclusion, Bug fixes, tweaks, and Open Source contribution tools
DONE Fix gravatar bug with changing profile photo DONE docs: how to set it up locally (pg) DONE Clean up README to allow easier OSS contributions DONE Load social buttons last so they don't trainwreck the page! DONE Set up warning to gh-pages about obsolete-ness (use header) DONE Set up github authentication to avoid early rate limiting issues DONE Set up same-as-before view templates DONE Import images (like odin logo, octocat) DONE Set up new tree heirarchy (on master branch of curriculum!) DONE Clean up templating leftovers... or handle them?? Done Use Github API to pull in curriculum dynamically DONE set up simple API call DONE Set up dynamic api call to handle directory structure DONE Set up error handling for calls (see docs) DONE Set up smart handling to look for index.html/.md if not specified Done Set up markdown rendering DONE Fix suggestions form to include current URL DONE change shading of navbar to flatten it out (remove shadow) DONE Build mailer button in the event profiles DONE remove email addresses from profiles DONE add notification for users to login to post to the forum
v0.0.6: Forums and Bug Fixes
DONE Add Moot.it DONE Add moot single signin feature
DONE Fix linkages to profiles to actually how the correct URL links to that program and their account on it. DONE Fix language for editing contact info -- not always a URL! DONE Remove the "github account unavailable" thing from index DONE Make gravatar containers fixed size on index page DONE Fix display of students index page to not collapse so quickly on resize DONE Fix navbar upon narrow window to not get pushed lower due to body top padding (media query) DONE Set up default Gravatar DONE Put logo image into logo text DONE Put logo image into favicon DONE Display timezone that calendar is currently in! DONE Check timezone compatability DONE AJAX Loading icon
v0.0.5: Profile Links from Scheduler DONE set calendar display to start on today's weekday and to not show the allday option. AVOIDED BUG: Creating multiple all-day events then deleting one will result in the others being turned into 12-1am events. Very odd. DONE Set up the event modal dialogs to show which project(s) that person wants to pair on when clicked. DONE Create Login link on splash page but hide signup DONE Hide login from navbar if on login pages... so just hide it always! DONE Change event title returned to be creator's username DONE Fix link to user root after account update DONE Set up user profile page that includes github and best ways to contact DONE Set up user profile page editing functions DONE Add link to profile page on navbar DONE Add cancel link to edit page DONE Add edit picture on Gravatar link DONE Add links to G+ and Skype and Screenhero DONE Link from modal to user profile page (and pull info from it for quick reference) DONE Set up users index page to list all users and their projects, last login DONE Set up students link on navbar DONE Redo hiding signup stuff so option is required to show it DONE Bundle update gems
BUG LIST:
TESTS: DONE Fix tests for cal_events and login links DONE User unit tests DONE Events also have an event creator project list sent DONE signup is hidden from splash page DONE That profile page actually shows up DONE profile page displays at least one link, an about, and a project DONE profile page edit button only for logged in user DONE only logged in user can get to edit link DONE Only logged in user can access profile or edit pages DONE only current user can access edit page DONE edit page shows editable options DONE Update method works for user profile page DONE navbar has profile link DONE navbar has students (index) link DONE users index shows users DONE each indexed user has a username
DEPLOYMENT NOTES: *** MIGRATION! Added columns to User for profile. *** BUNDLE UPDATE AGAIN! Fail! missing "fontawesome.less" Attempts to fix:
- run $ bundle exec rake assets:precompile
- Fail! same error. hmm.
- Removed the public/assets folder that created.
- Downgrading the bootstrap gem to v 2.2.6 from 2.2.7
- bundle install, try again
- It worked! ...why...? How can I use this correctly in the future.
- Ran the migration, success.
v0.0.4: Mobile Friendly Splash DONE Reduce image size DONE hard size background DENIED Media query stylesheet PARTIAL ems not px for splash fonts DONE kill the signed-in-successfully flash message
v0.0.3: Referral Links DONE * Create a URL catcher that plants a cookie in the browser for ?cb= anything (and can be expanded into others) 1 day cookie DONE * Check the cookie when the Scheduler page is reached, then do whatever comes next DONE If no prev events, park on scheduler page with that content bucket already set, kill cookie DONE If prev events, go to preferences page and add a new-but-unsaved event (just a select?), kill cookie either way, put message saying what's up DONE Have "Update" button go back to scheduler page. Need to set up a referrer query string for this... can we autopopulate it or do we manually need to figure it out? DONE Improve spacing of the box to handle bigger project names DONE Alpha privacy disclaimer (your info will be public for a while) DONE Link the pairing instructions to the github curriculum DONE signed in user goes to scheduler by default not splash
- test: FAIL cookie setting >> testing cookies is murderously painful. FAIL cookie expiration >> IBID FAIL cookie clearing after operations >> IBID FAIL cookie can only be valid content bucket >> IBID DONE will add new content bucket if alone PENDING/FAIL will add new content bucket with message only if it doesn't already exist >> since signin redirects to scheduler prematurely currently DONE won't accept an invalid content bucket DONE signed in user goes to sched by default DONE session will return user after form submit if referred