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[janicewilson]

My apologies, Kari and Chris! I made the (optimistic?) assumption that all was due by Monday! I'm currently in Houston en route to the Seattle. I scrambled on the flight from Memphis to put something together for the task list. It ain't pretty. But I think I hit all the requisites. I'll be certain to add sparkle to my Zoo/RSVP effort tomorrow!

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Describe in your own words what the Model is doing in Rails	The Model is the liaison between the Controller and the Database. In this case, the Model creates and/or mutates Task objects, which in turn represent the data in a corresponding row, according to the whims (e.g. update or new) of the Controller.
Describe in your own words what the Controller is doing in Rails	The Controller is the ultimate point person, receiving the baton from the Routes, then deciding, according to which Controller Actions are triggered, whether Views or Controller gets the baton next. The baton is always returned to the Controller at which point, the Controller pass the baton to the View or the Model for a few more rounds before doing a final pass back to the Routes.
Describe in your own words what the View is doing in Rails	The View passes to the Controller the framework that will ultimately serve as indication for the user that her request has been sent, sometimes received and sometimes acted upon by said Controller.
What is the purpose of using strong params? (i.e. the params method in the controller)	Preventing a sneak attack by someone stuffing something distasteful into the hash that should be gainfully employed as the values of that Object's attributes.
How are Rails migrations related to Rails models?	Migrations are the conduits by which Models, and the tables said Models represent, are created and changed.
Describe one area of Rails that are still unclear on	Not certain whether my use of MATCH was apropos. I (think I) understood that my routing was sending mix signals when I attempted to use the same HTTP verb and URL for more than one action. (#update and #complete). I'd like to understand how to accomplish the same without using MATCH.

[CheezItMan]

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What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Baseline
Appropriate Git Usage with no extraneous files checked in	Only one commit, I realize you had to do it quickly on the fly, so to speak.
Answered comprehension questions	Check, the View presents the user interface which
Successfully handles: Index, Show	Check
Successfully handles: New, Create	Check
Successfully handles: Edit, Update	Check
Successfully handles: Destroy, Task Complete	Check
Routes follow RESTful conventions	Check
Uses named routes (like _path)	Check
Overall	You satisfied all the basic requirements, no CSS or styling, but it all works! Nice work, and quickly!

[janicewilson]

Thanks, Chris, for the quick turnaround. And again, apologies for the delinquency. Any chance you've time to give feedback on how I implemented the "task completed"? Is use of match appropriate and/or good/best practice?

[CheezItMan]

Apologies, I should have commented on this. The status field for the Task model you could probably drop because if the completed_at field is set then the task is completed.

For the routes.rb file, we generally use match for routes that work for more than one http verb. So in this case since you're only doing a PUT request it should probably be:

put '/tasks/complete/:id', to: 'tasks#complete', as: 'complete_task'

match is also something we generally don't use often.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#http-verb-constraints

[janicewilson]

Ah! That’s helpful! I was glued to the “naming convention” task/:id/action. Didn’t realize it was fake glue. Thanks for taking the time to respond!!