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[jjousun]

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Describe in your own words what the Model is doing in Rails	The Rails Model manages the data and business logic for our web application. Because it manages the data it manages the state of the application.The Model is our standard Ruby class. Often linked to a database; helps persist our data.
Describe in your own words what the Controller is doing in Rails	The Controller coordinates between the Model & View. It receives a request, interacts with the Model to retrieve information, decides on next steps, informs the View of state changes.
Describe in your own words what the View is doing in Rails	The View generates the user interface. It does no processing unrelated to presenting information.
What is the purpose of using strong params? (i.e. the params method in the controller)	Strong params is a way to make sure that only the attributes you specify are allowed in mass updating/creation.
How are Rails migrations related to Rails models?	A migration is a change to the model. Rails gives us a structured approach to maintaining the database schema. Migrations provide documentation and instructions on how to store the data the model is describing.
Describe one area of Rails that are still unclear on	Routes still trip me up.

[CheezItMan]

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What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Baseline
Appropriate Git Usage with no extraneous files checked in	You do need to commit more in more atomic steps.
Answered comprehension questions	Check, the Rail model is however always linked to a database.
Successfully handles: Index, Show	Check
Successfully handles: New, Create	New Tasks are marked as complete! Otherwise well done.
Successfully handles: Edit, Update	Check
Successfully handles: Destroy, Task Complete	Check, although it might make sense to enable users to mark a task complete on the show page.
Routes follow RESTful conventions	Well done! Good use of root to:
Uses named routes (like _path)	Good use of named paths
Overall	Nicely done, you satisfied all the requirements and your styling on the show and index pages are nicely done.