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We continued our thread of persisting data by looking at databases and SQL.  Starting off with SQlite3, the SQL Docs and this SQLite Tutorial was really helpful, especially for going through CRUD actions and joins.  

We later looked at models, migrations and associations in Active Records…and how Active Records generates SQL queries for us – Active Records Magic

This past week we’ve been looking at TDD with Minitest & Rspec.  

We were working on a flight calculator, that takes coordinates and flight details and works out the distance between two airports and the estimated time of arrival.  We used Minitest to drive the development and were looking to refactor the calculator with SRP, extensibility and re-usability of code in mind.  

A separation of concerns lead us to create two classes – flight, that contained knowledge of its own airline, flight number, destination etc, and Coordinates –  which was responsible for calculating the distance between two point using longitudes, latitudes and radians.

We’re now working on persisting the data, and producing reports of incoming flight information in html, csv and text formats.  We’ve created extra Reports classes and sub classes to handle the report generation.

Here’s some of our tests for the Coordinate class:

describe "Coordinates" do  before do    @lhr = Coordinates.new(lat: 51.4700223, lng: -0.4542955)    @jfk = Coordinates.new(lat: 40.6413111, lng: -73.77813909999999)  end

 it "has objects which know their own latitude and longitude" do    @lhr.lat.must_equal 51.4700223    @lhr.lng.must_equal -0.4542955    @jfk.lat.must_equal 40.6413111    @jfk.lng.must_equal -73.77813909999999  end

 it "converts lat and lng into radians" do    @lhr.to_radians(51.4700223).must_equal 0.8983213552099045    @lhr.to_radians(-0.4542955).must_equal -0.0079289522519939    @jfk.to_radians(40.6413111).must_equal 0.7093246910223184    @jfk.to_radians(-73.77813909999999).must_equal -1.287671443289366  end

This week we’ve been focussing on object-oriented programming, and refactoring previous assignments with multiple classes to model real-world scenarios more closely, and encapsulate our code in methods.

We’ve also been working on modules, and implementing our own each and spaceship operator methods, giving us access to the Enumerable and Comparable modules within our own classes.