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This Wiki catalogues our experience working from Thursday, 7/17/2014 to Monday, 7/21/2014, on the gravitation force application. In an attempt to simulate software engineering best practices, we completed stand-ups and retros every several hours, which are in part recorded below.

**Thursday, 7/17/2014 **

• Met as a group and discussed project expectations and responsibilities
• Drew created a new Rails project with the necessary gems and configuration settings
• Drew completed schema and added to repo
• Katie and Drew worked on user attributes implementation and testing
• Ben and Greg worked on user log in and log out implementation and testing

**Friday, 7/18/2014 **

• Drew resolved issues with the test environment
• Katie completed a wireframe for the project
• Katie completed the style guide and base CSS stylesheet for the project
• Drew and Ben added the coverage folder to .gitignore - this folder included a number of auto-generated files that annoyingly showed up in the red/green GitHub summary of commits
• Ben and Greg added several new methods to the User model and the relevant tests to the spec
• Another group within DBC reviewed our code base and made several helpful refactors, including renaming the Attribute model to Trait (ActiveRecord raised issues with the naming convention)

**Saturday, 7/19/2014 **

• Drew made several refactors to the User model, which Ben implemented
• Drew and Katie wrote tests and implemented functionality for user trait setting
• Katie worked on cleaning up several different views
• Drew worked on resolving issues with the Ratings controller and the nesting of the traits routes within users
• Ben did some clean up documentation (Wiki and Readme)
• Ben and Drew worked on ratings controller (tests and implementation)
• Ben and Greg worked on JavaScript implementation of D3 library
• Ben and Greg wrote various filter functions to improve user data discovery
• Ben and Greg worked in event bubbling in AJAX requests for button filters
• We enter Sunday with two main to-dos: (i) Connecting gravitate-based code (data visualization) and trait-based code (users' ability to rather other users on traits) (ii) Front-end / styling work

Also of note:

• Data visualization and most up to date d3 code is on Ben's fork, data_visualization branch
• CSS and most up to date front end is on Master repo, styleguide branch
• Form and rating routes from Saturday are on Drew's repo, attribute branch
• We did not merge any of these as all are incomplete. All these branches need to be fleshed out and merged tomorrow into what is hopefully the mvp.

**Sunday, 7/19/2014 **

• Greg used metaprogramming to write AJAX requests for dynamically generated buttons
• Drew overhauled the schema - this was key to the creation of forms and the renamings (rater, ratee, etc.) were far more intuitive
• Ben and Katie rewrote a number of tests to factor in merges and schema changes
• Ben rewrote the User filter methods to incorporate a two dimensional grid (e.g. distance between two points)
• Greg added jQuery animations on hover to the individual points on the scatterplot and also generated a data summary upon hover
• Ben and Greg paired on drawing gridlines and dividing graph into quadrants
• Greg added two additional points on the scatterplot to represent what the user rated the other user and where the user rated him/herself
• Drew and Ben restyled the application and refactored code