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Pea Patch Planner

You and your pair were recently contacted by a lawyer. Their client, a rich recluse, recently passed away, but apparently was so impressed with the Ada Developer Academy program that they wrote us into the will! We have received a $15,000,000 gift, with only one string attached - we have to help turn a large empty lot in the neighborhood into a community garden!

Goals

  • Successful pair programming experience
  • Develop personal project management skills
  • APIs
    • Calendering
    • Weather
    • Twitter?
  • Resque
  • ActionMailer
  • Scheduler
  • Time-based events

Guidelines

  • Students will work in pairs, working in branches and submitting all code to Github via pull requests for code review
  • Practice TDD (rspec) to lead the development process of Models and Controllers
  • Create a new PivotalTracker project and keep the stories up-to-date
  • Create an attractive visual presentation
  • Can send email notifications via ActionMailer and Resque

Expectations

Your task is to create a web application that will help organize the garden, by keeping a central calendar for events, classes, and different planting seasons, keep track of shared resources (hand tools and compost, mostly!), send reminders of recurring events, and act as a community portal for the latest gardening news and information. You will have access to a representative of the law firm (Hudson and Worthy(s)) who will accept or reject each portion of the project.

Technical Requirements

These are the minimum requirements for us to get the $15,000,000

  • Allows Users to sign-up and login securely with username/password OR Twitter (pick one)
  • Allows Users who are admins of the system to create blog posts for a "News" section
  • Sends Users email updates when new News articles are posted
  • Allows Users to add comments to a News post (Disqus?)
  • On the home page, displays the latest weather conditions and forecast (if available)
  • A "Calendar" section that community members can submit new events to
  • A "Tool Library" for Users to "checking out" and "check in" shared tools - rakes, shovels, wheelbarrows, etc
  • Aesthetically pleasing look and feel that displays properly on an iPhone and iPad

Extra Credit

Each of these will increase the size of the endowment by $2,000,000 when completed.. but only if the technical requirements are complete!

  • Allow Users to reserve a Tool, and receive an SMS when it becomes available
  • Allow Users to RSVP for calendar events
  • Uses AJAX in two places to improve the User Experience (UX)

Evaluation

  • Learning Goals

    • Demonstrate comprehension of Rails
    • Comfort with Pivotal Tracker (and/or any other project tools used)
    • Working as a pair
    • Accepting challenges by working on parts of the project outside your individual comfort zone

  • Client Satisfaction

    • Visually appealing and polished
    • No major bugs
      • Minor bugs noted in Pivotal Tracker or as a Github issue