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Ruby & Ruby on Rails Basics - Sprint Challenge - Awesome Blog Gem

Instructions

Read these instructions carefully. Understand exactly what is expected before starting this Sprint Challenge.

This is an individual assessment. All work must be your own. Your challenge score will be a measure of your ability to work independently using the material covered during this sprint. You need to demonstrate proficiency in the concepts and objectives introduced and practiced in the preceding days.

You are not allowed to collaborate during the Sprint Challenge. However, you are encouraged to follow the twenty-minute rule and seek support from your PM and Instructor in your cohort help channel on Slack. Your work reflects your proficiency in Ruby and Ruby on Rails Basics.

You have three hours to complete this challenge. Plan your time accordingly.

Commits

Commit your code regularly and meaningfully. This helps both you (in case you ever need to return to old code for any reason) and your project manager.

Description

You are going to make a gem that can be used across applications that have published_at fields in their models. You'll make a publishable gem that provides publish, unpublish and pubished? methods that can be mixed in to our awesome_blog application's models.

Git Set Up

  • Fork the project into your GitHub user account
  • Clone the forked project into a directory on your machine
  • Create a pull request before you start working on the project requirements. You will continuously push your updates throughout the project.
  • You are now ready to build this project with your preferred IDE

Minimum Viable Product

You are going to make a gem that can be used across applications that have published_at fields in their models. You'll make a publishable gem that provides publish, unpublish and pubished? methods that can be mixed in to our awesome_blog application's models.

These are the steps you should take in order to create your MVP:

  1. Use bundler to generate a gem named publishable in a directory adjacent to your awesome_blog application (not inside it).
  2. Fill out the TODO portions of the .gemspec files.
  3. Add a publish method to the publishable module (at lib/publishable.rb) that calls update with the published_at value set to Time.now.
  4. Add the unpublish method which will update the published_at value to nil.
  5. Add a published? method to check if the published_at field is 'not nil'.
  6. Add the publishable gem to awesome_blog as a local gem.
  7. Mixin publishable to the Quote and Post models.
  8. Use the rails console to test the new methods (from the publishable module) that should now be available.

Stretch Problems

  1. Update the index views to only show published? posts.