CSCI 446 Unit #9

Specific Requirements

This lab is worth 50 points:

• (5) Add db.js to the models folder. Be sure to include the code for monitoring connections and graceful shutdown, as well as the test to determine which environment to use.
• (5) Create courses.js to define the schema for the app (similar to the text example, this will be based on the controller and views created in Unit 8).
• (10) For the course collection, the course ID and name should be required. For each assignment, the assignment name and due date are required. Points should have a default of 0 and should be between 0 and 100.
• (10) Create a json file to load the collections. You should have at least two courses, and one course should have at least two assignments (you will likely use the same data as in Unit 8, although that's not required).
• (5) Test this first on your local host
• (5) Then load onto mongoLab
• (5) Push to heroku

Ease of grading

(5) To show that you have followed all the steps, you will create a set of scripts. Commands should be done from the root directory of your application.

Development mode. Show that development mode attaches to your local database, and that the disconnect commands are working properly.

• nodemon > devEnv.txt. Stop the process (e.g., with Ctrl-C, I had to do this twice). This saves the console output to the file devEnv.txt.
• The file (devEnv.txt) should include a message such as: Mongoose connected to mongodb://localhost/[YOUR_DB_NAME]
• It should also include a message such as: Mongoose disconnected

Production mode. Show that production mode attaches to your a remote database, and that the disconnect commands are working properly.

• Set NODE_ENV to production. See Hints if you're on Windows, text has commands that I believe should work with *nix.
• nodemon > prodEnv.txt. Stop the process.
• File should include a message such as: Mongoose connected to mongodb://[YOUR_MONGOLAB_URI]
• Again there should be a message that mongoose has disconnected.

Heroku. Show that your app has been pushed to Heroku.

• Remember that you can open the app from the command line: heroku open
• To show that it's connecting to MongoLab, use heroku logs > HerokuLogs.txt
• Somewhere in the log there should be a message such as: 2017-12-08T00:35:18.552476+00:00 app[web.1]: Mongoose connected to mongodb://[YOUR_MONGOLAB_URI]
• Edit for privacy! The mongoLab URI has the user and password embedded, and we don't want to share those with anyone. So edit the file to change that to [MY_MONGOLAB_URI].
  • NOTE: since you're editing the scripts, you might be tempted to just create files from scratch. That would constitute cheating! And remember that these files include much more than just the uri, so it would likely be very obvious to the grader. Also, you'll need to complete this work to be successful in the next unit.

Zip all three .txt files, along with db.js and courses.js - the model, not the controller! - and submit for grading.