My Sinatra Project

For my second project, I build a sinatra app called EduTasks, an app students can use to keep track of upcoming assignments, tasks, and reminders related to courses they are enrolled in. I chose this idea because I’m a student myself and with all classes being virtual at the moment, having a place to track all tasks, classes and due dates collectively would be beneficial to me and I assume to others as well.

The app is a CRUD, MVC app using Sinatra and a simple Content Management System (CMS) using the tools we have learned in Module 2. It uses four basic types of functionality: Create, Read, Update, and Delete. It also uses a Model-View-Controller design pattern that divides the logic of the program into 3 section and each section of the code has its own distinct purpose. So, I set up the following:

A user can create an account and can create courses
A user can view his/her account information and can view courses they are enrolled in
A user can edit his/her own account as well as courses they are enrolled in
A user can delete his/her account as well as delete any courses
To set this up, I set up the following association:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_secure_password
    has_many :courses
end

class Course < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
end

Some gems and resources I found to be useful are:

Corneal Gem - I used this gem to set up the scaffolding for the project.
Sintra-Flash: - I used this gem to set alerts and notices to the user. (eg. incorrect password, account doesn’t exist, password too short, etc)
Sass - I found this to be useful for styling css.
Boostrap - I actually ended up not using this since I watching this tutorial and ended up using sass instead, but it’s a great resource for styling.
bcrypt - this was useful for encrypting passwords
Overall, this was a fun project and one I hope to expand with additional features!

My walkthrough video of the current status of the project can be found here.