CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2019 - Project E1916. Fix Code Climate issues in controllers with names beginning with A through N: Difference between revisions

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===Description of the project===
===Description of the project===
The questionnaires controller had several issues; this project aimed to address some of them, including:
There are some code smells detected by the code climate. These violate many of the ruby/rails best practices and needs to be rectified.


* Remove or move logic that should reside elsewhere, e.g. in a model class.
all files in app/controllers/ with names beginning with A through N, except assignment_controller.rb
* Remove logic and references to logic that is no longer being used.
 
===Files modified in the project===
# app/controllers/questionnaires_controller.rb
# app/views/questionnaires/_questionnaire.html.erb
# app/views/questionnaires/edit_questionnaire.html.erb (deleted)
# spec/controllers/questionnaires_controller_spec.rb
 
===Issues and Improvements===
 
====The ''assign_instructor_id'' method====
 
=====Problems=====
This method had two issues:
# Its name was misleading because it did not actually assign a value; it simply obtained a value from the user in the session.
# It was delving into implementation details of the ''User'' class.
 
=====Solution=====
The equivalent logic was already implemented in the ''User'' class's ''instructor_id'' method, so calls to the ''assign_instructor_id'' method were simply replaced with:
<pre>
session[:user].instructor_id
</pre>
 
A description in ''spec/controllers/questionnaires_controller_spec.rb'' was updated to reflect that ''assign_instructor_id'' was no longer in scope.
 
====The ''export'' and ''import'' methods====
 
=====Problems=====
These methods were actually no longer being used, because the functionality they provided was moved to the ''export_file'' and ''import_file'' routes.
 
=====Solution=====
* The logic was triggered by the presence of the parameters ''import'' or ''export'' in the ''save_all_questions'' action.  Code that caused these parameters to be present had been commented out of ''_questionnaire.html.erb'' and ''edit_questionnaire.html.erb'' in the questionnaire views.  The latter file was no longer reachable, as there was no reference to an ''edit_questionnaire'' action in ''config/routes.rb'' or any direct references to it in the questionnaires controller itself.  Thus the commented-out code was removed from ''_questionnaire.html.erb'' and the ''edit_questionnaire.html.erb'' file was deleted.
* The logic referencing the parameters and methods was removed from the ''save_all_questions'' method.

Revision as of 03:13, 25 March 2019

Description of the project

There are some code smells detected by the code climate. These violate many of the ruby/rails best practices and needs to be rectified.

all files in app/controllers/ with names beginning with A through N, except assignment_controller.rb