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[ssamant]

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Describe in your own words what the Model is doing in Rails	the model is talking between the controller and the db
Describe in your own words what the Controller is doing in Rails	the controller is sending out messages to the model and the views
Describe in your own words what the View is doing in Rails	the view is setting up the html to be sent back to the user
What is the purpose of using strong params? (i.e. the params method in the controller)	to make sure bad data can't get into your db; you can specify which columns in the db can be updated
How are Rails migrations related to Rails models?	migrations change the structure of the database (which is accessed through a model)
Describe one area of Rails that are still unclear on	hmmm many things, but maybe how the view gets back to the users; also what is singular/plural, what needs to be a symbol vs variable, etc.

[CheezItMan]

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What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Baseline
Appropriate Git Usage with no extraneous files checked in	Check
Answered comprehension questions	Check, it's fairly normal to be confused on the plural vs singular terms. Just remember, Model: Singular, Controller & Database Table: Plural. Otherwise, if you can focus on how what you do affects the site, and learn the internals later.
Successfully handles: Index, Show	Check, nice check on the date to print the overdue mesage!
Successfully handles: New, Create	Check
Successfully handles: Edit, Update	Check, nice use of the partial view!
Successfully handles: Destroy, Task Complete	Check
Routes follow RESTful conventions	Check
Uses named routes (like _path)	Check
Overall	Note, it's convention in your HTML class attributes to name them with hyphens (-) instead of underscores (_) when using a class name with multiple words. A, "most magnificent task list." The styling looks pretty good and I like how you assigned priorities to tasks and separated their display. In the future I might use the model's where method to get 2 instance variables, one for high-priority tasks and one for low priority tasks and thus reduce the amount of logic code mixed in with the HTML in the view. I like the use of emojis for checkmarks. In the future you could also dispose of the done field in the model and just use the complete_date field to track if the task is done. Overall this was very well done, a good start for Rails!