How do I create an attendance form for student attendance?
I've been racking my brain and just need to ask for help on the creating this function in my app.
Scope: simple app for non-profit for tracking student attendance
What I've done:
- created the app
- shared the app with the end people
- received positive feedback
What's missing for them is the ability to record attenance for multiple students at once. Without this they can not see the benefit of using this and I'm stuck maitaining an google sheet spreadsheet for them.
This (from what I've read) should be done in two steps:
Step 1 - record the date/time of the attendance for multiple students
Step 2 - record the hours / record you want to track for those that are present
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30662221/rails-4-attendance-system
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11991892/rails-3-taking-attendance-form-how-to-create-multiple-records
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40485042/generate-attendance-view-form-in-rails-for-all-students
- a dozen more
Form 1 - mark students attendnace
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1sM-quaY87Xp86Utp1yQTIrqwTRjzn3k1Fqq92MadaG8/edit
for now I'm just sticking with checkboxes but i'm sure I'll move to something more dynamic with java script or something else but for now let's keep it simple.
From 2 - mark hours / record for present students
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/10zi_c7dxHMdGC3PpUhQh70N4rFN_0eYMi5wveGxy-gs/edit
I'm getting fancy I know but the idea would be select all / select one / select a few and record hours for each student.
Models
class Student <ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :attendances, dependent: :destroy
validates :first_name, :last_name, :school_grade, :team_name, :presence => true
end
class Attendance < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :student
has_many :attendance_records
end
class Records <ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :attendance
belongs_to :student through: :attendance
end
I work on this in the evenings after my kids go to sleep so any help will significantly help reduce my :coffee: intake to normal healthy levels.
Redirected this question to the Slack Group got this response:
class AttendancesController < ApplicationController
def mark
@students = Student.where(id: params[:student_ids])
ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do
@students.each do |student|
attendence = student.attendences.create(date: attendence_params[:date])
end
end
end
private
def attendence_params
params.require(:attendence).permit(:date)
end
end
class AttendancesController < ApplicationController
def mark
@attendance_day = AttendanceDay.find(params[:attendance_day_id])
@attendance_day.student_ids = params[:student_ids]
@attendance_day.save
end
end
I'm a visual learner so having this to refer back to actually helped me understand how I can take an array like student_ids collected from a form and have the controller irreate on them to create in my case an attendance record. Currently there's a has_many / belongs_to association between the students & attendances model.
Suggestions:
With the reponses I may end up uisng a joiner model to bridge Students & Attendnances with a has_many, through this way the end result would be:
class Student < ApplicationRecord
has_many :attendances
has_many :records, :through => :attendances
end
class Attendance < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :record
belongs_to :student
end
class Record < ApplicationRecord
has_many :attendances
has_many :students, :through => :attendances
end
Can you share the git repo of your app, I can have a look
Using** cocoon** gem and some styling, you can mass mark student attendance (statuses in my case).
schedulable gem - good for scheduling & persisting events in the database
Screenshof from my app:
https://ibb.co/nBAunG
Nested forms make sense to me in theory but in practice I can't seem to see the implementation of it in an attendance tracker.
Here's the repo:
https://github.com/ernestozgutierrez/squashup/tree/models
Here's a quick view of what I'm shooting for: https://goo.gl/V8Jbgy
What I'm trying to do is setup an attendance app similar to https://www.classdojo.com/
I'm not trying to clone it 1for1 but I'm trying to match the abilty to select multiple students from a list / table and mark them as [present, absent, excused, other]. Once they are marked with an attendance only those present are visible to take the next action mark hours of participation.
The part I've been stuck on is the select multiple and assign an attendance type. If you read from the top post I've been looking into this but can't seem to get it right.
The last 2 suggestions had me to the following to the AttendancesController
def mark_student #this is the most recnet attempt
@students = Array(params[:student_ids].split(",")
@students.each do |s|
student = Student.find(s)
student.attendances.build!
end
# @students = params[:student_ids].split(",") #this was the second suggestion
# @students.each do |s|
# student = Student.find(s)
# student.attendances.create
# end
redirect_to attendances_url
end
```
Hello,
I work in a private bilingual school - Spanish/Italian teacher (it's my first academic year as a teacher and I'm also pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Max Planck Institute) and I need to track my class attendance. How can I track class attendance with the possibility to create attendance for all users so that I could see all students' names and an attendance field for each student at once? I would like to see all users on the list view and all options of the attendance.
