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[AlisonZ]

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Describe in your own words what the Model is doing in Rails	Handling the data and coordinating between the database and the application
Describe in your own words what the Controller is doing in Rails	Handling the methods that send information from the router to the model and view
Describe in your own words what the View is doing in Rails	Presenting the information in the browser
What is the purpose of using strong params? (i.e. the params method in the controller)	To restrict users from altering too much information
How are Rails migrations related to Rails models?	migrations update the schema structure of the model
Describe one area of Rails that are still unclear on	uuhhhh. i think i'm at a point where I don't even know how to ask the questions that i have. for some reason i am having trouble with the concept of helpers. maybe i'm focusing on the big picture of MVC and what rails is, so the smaller aspects of rails helpers (methods?) are confusing and not clicking for me rn

[kariabancroft]

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What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Baseline
Appropriate Git Usage with no extraneous files checked in	Yes
Answered comprehension questions	Yes. When you refer to the "helpers" are you talking about in the views like link_to or the routes like _path? Rails is doing these things to help us DRY up our code, but it is important to examine exactly what these things are doing for us. Hopefully with some additional practice and deep-diving into each piece it will become more clear.
Successfully handles: Index, Show	Yes. Note that when we use IDs and classes in our HTML we want to separate these words with the - rather than the _. When we use conditionals in the views, we want to indent the contents inside to make it easier to read.
Successfully handles: New, Create	Yes. Watch your indentation in the controller - seems to go off a bit.
Successfully handles: Edit, Update	Yes. Nice job using the form partial for both forms.
Successfully handles: Destroy, Task Complete	Yes. Nice job using a local variable in the completion action.
Routes follow RESTful conventions	Yes
Uses named routes (like _path)	Yes
Overall	Nice job overall. You explored each piece of the Rails request cycle & you'll get more practice in the next assignment.