Jason Chodera jchod77

Unit testing == testing small things like methods/classes
Integration testing == drives you towards TDD
go to ruby-gems to find the latest version of a gem you are using
when calling '~>x.x.y on gem it accepts any version with x.x. y can be anything
expect ()- when you have an output your expecting from the obj being tested
expect {}- when you have a side effect of running your code
need selenium or phantom js to test ajax calls in your app

distance_of_time_in_words

Example:

<% start_time =  "2012-03-02 14:46:21 +0100" %>
<% end_time   =  "2012-04-02 14:46:21 +0200" %>
<%= distance_of_time_in_words(start_time, end_time)  %>

 "about 1 month"

Is creating a new resource :something in router best practice if you're only using 2 of the RESTful routes (ie: user authentication?
where should partials be saved if they're used across different view folders?
- A- where ever you want, though you have to specify the path (ie:'shared/form')

Day 1 Phase 3

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Understand what you're using. Including gems!
Standard Unix env has 2 outs
- standard out
- standard error
less .gitnore
outside libraries (ie: bootstrap, angular) go in vendor
database.yaml file holds db info

Create a new rails app in terminal by entering rails new APPNAME
rake db:setup runs the following commands:
- rake db:create
- rake db:schema load *rake db:seed
- good for getting a db env up and running quickly
Routes == main control center for your app
- place where specify what things your app resonds to and when to find the code to run
Instead of writing routes in your controller, write methods
All of your controllers should inherit from ApplicationController

Test-Driven Development

Write better code in less time by Evan Dorn Link to video

Caveat #1- Intelligence is a liability when trying to write good software.
- Smart people can make progress, without proper PROCESS
- Not a good thing when trying to deliver high quality software and working in large teams
  - Analogous to a builder saying "We know how skyscrapers work, just give us the bricks and we'll get started."
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More about configuring your Rails databases: --> http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-a-database

More info on rails forms: --> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_for

Rails partials/ rendering: --> http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html

Active Record assosciations:

	# Parse and Count problem
	require 'pathname'

	def scan(path)
	file = File.open(path).each_line do \|line\|
	line.split.each do \|word\|
	word = word.gsub(/[.,()?"]/, "")
	if @word_hash[word]
	@word_hash[word] += 1
	else

	<!-- Front END Problem -->
	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<body id='body'>
	<div class="newDiv"id="myDiv">Hello, World</div>
	</body>

	<style type="text/css">
	#myDiv {
	text-align: center;
	background: #33cc33

	class BoggleBoard

	def initialize(boggle_board)
	@boggle_board = boggle_board
	end

	def create_word(*coords)
	coords.map { \|coord\| @boggle_board[coord.first][coord.last]}.join("")
	end