Chucks

USA Today project 2 - Build something that enables people to tell a story

Description

Create an application that tracks how users feel about current political issues and topics.

Basic home page with brief deccription of the application and a single menu button taking the user to the next page, where they will be given a prompt
Give the user a random prompt (quote) and 6 bottons, each representing one of the four major emotions.
Once the user picks an option, they are taken to a page displaying how everyone else felt about the prompt

Quote - has_many responses
- has an id
- has a category
- has a topic
- has content
- has an author
- has a location
- has a date
Response - belong_to a quote, has_one emoji
- has a response id
- has a quote id - relative key
- has an emotion id - 1-6
- has user input from home page (zipcode, gender, political orientation)
Emotions - belongs_to a response
- has an id (1-6)
- has a url
- has a title/name (happy, sad, glad, angry)

Quotes have many responses, Response has an emotions

Layout
- header: title partial to display user selection with conditional
- body with <%= yeild %>
- footer linking to github repo

.Response

Index view to use as home page and display about/title, takes basic user input
- postcard partial: show postcard
- conditional true to render intro/welcome text and user input
New view to show post card with quote and take in user emotion
- postcard partial
  - conditional, shows text of a random quote pulled from DB
- emojis partial
  - pull each emoji icon from DB
  - display inline with padding between each
  - each as link_to /show, post emoji_id
Show view to display data viz and graphics, as third page
- each frame as a partial?
  - frame 1: quote, total number of similar responses, etc.
  - frame 1: render pie chart of responses and table of response break down
- next card partial

Quotes
- show quote (to_s method?)
- get quote, return as hash?
  - { :author => "Hillary Clinton", :content => "Cool with the gays", :date => "April 19, 2014"}
Response
- calculate total responses
- calculate break down of responses, return as hash?
  - { emoji_id = number_of_responses }
  - { 1 => 37, 2 => 50, 3 => "10}
- Wikipedia API - get abstract of article on category > topic
Emoji model