Pairmiscuous
Promiscuous Pair Programming web app @ Makers Academy Makermix
https://github.com/makersacademy/course/blob/master/makermix/intro_to_makermix.md
Kanban board: https://waffle.io/rodcul/pairmiscuous
Goals for app
- Reduce awkwardness around pairing
- Ensure everyone pairs with everyone (Promiscuo Pairing)
Sprint 24-26 June 2015
- Sign up using github and select cohort
- Log pair session
- Allow users to select another pair partner and log reason for that
- Show pairing matrix by cohort
Backlog
- What to do with odd number cohort?
- Responsive: mobile & tablet
- Email integration
- Delete previously logged pairing session
- Slack integration
- Allow for 3 way pairing
- Leaderboard of promiscuous pairer
- Allow pairing with users not in cohort (coaches/alumni helpers)
- Add a custom profile picture
- Sentiment monitoring
- Plan for bank holidays/known or planned absence
User personas
- Students
- Alumni helpers
- Coaches
What's going to give?
| LIKELY | MAYBE | DEFINITELY NOT | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCOPE | X | ||||
| HOURS | X | ||||
| TESTING/QUALITY | X | ||||
| TECH (MEAN.JS) | X | ||||
| TEAMWORK/PAIRING/COMMUNICATION | X | ||||
| UX/DESIGN | X |
Tech stack
- MEAN.JS (hopefully MongoDB, Express, Angular/Ember, Node)
- Testing: Unit & Feature (Karma + ?)
- Bootstrap
- Travis CI
- Coveralls
- Gitflow using feature branches!!
Prerequisites
You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.
- Git
- Ruby on Rails
- PSQL
Project setup on local environment
git clone https://github.com/rodcul/pairmiscuous.git
cd pairmiscuous
bundle
bin/rake db:create
rails s
Now visit http://localhost:3000/ in your browser!
Tests
bin/rake db:create RAILS_ENV=test
rspec
Seed database with 50 users
(an error will be thrown if the rails server is running)
bin/rake db:seed
Reset database:
bin/rake db:reset