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IT 231 -- FWSP

Final Website Project

• You may complete your Final Website Project in groups of one or two.
   
• Your website should have at least two models in a one-many relationship.
   
• You may create the models with scaffolds or create one or more models directly and implement the pages from scratch with a form_for form.
   
• Implement a login page if you wish.
   
• Here is the Final Website Project Rubric.

Checklist for Final Project

• If you are working in a group of two, both persons in the group should submit a copy of the project.
   
• Include your name or names in the Rails project folder name. You can rename the Rails folder without affecting the project.
   
• Include a cover document explaining any enhancements you made to your website, above and beyond what the the scaffold software creates.
   
• Customise the layout page and CSS files for the scaffold-generated views in your site. Add additional CSS files for views that are not scaffold-generated.
   
• The Times New Roman font is not recommended for websites. It makes it look like you were too lazy to choose a font and are just relying on the default font for the browser. If you put text in a table, you need to set the font for td in addition to body.
   
• Choosing the right font is a compromise between a size that is hard to read (too small) and a size that looks like it is designed for grade school kids (too large).
   
• Don't center entire paragraphs; this is a temptation for amateur web designers.

Suggested Enhancements for Your Final Project

• Text and images on views beyond what the scaffold software generates.
   
• Background images should usually be lightened so they do not distrace from the content of the page. If a light font is used, the image can be darkened.
   
• One-many relationships. See the One-to-many Relationships Tutorial.
   
• Add a login page to part or all of your website. See the tutorial Implementing a Login Page for a Website.
   
• Validation of form input.
   
• Custom modifications to scaffold views like those in the One-to-many Relationships Tutorial. You may also want to display images for individual items in your database.
   
• Add one or more additional controllers that contain extra information or display database information in a custom way (similar to Project 6).

Hints and Tips

• If you having trouble creating your scaffolds or models, put them in separate batch files (file extension .bat) and typing the file names to run them. Putting more than one scaffold or model in a single batch file seems to cause problems.
   
• Here is the code for obtaining a count of all the items meeting a condition, for example,
  

  Entry.count(:conditions => "d1 = 'Male'")
  

• Here is the code for displaying an image in the table on the image page. Modify the code in app/views/grades/_form.html.erb, where grades is the name of your scaffold:
  

  <td><%= image_tag r.image_name %></td>
  

r is the loop variable from |r| in your for or each statement.