PSA Submissions

[pstoica]

UP FOR GRABS

Staff members should be able to submit PSAs for approval, since DJs are often part of other student orgs that would have good material.

• Create a "PSA Suggestions" page in the Staff section of the site.
• Staff should be able to add a title, body, and expiration date.

We often use a natural language parser called Chronic for dates, abstracted as a mixable concern). This module could use some documentation, but it's already implemented in the PSA model:

class Psa < ActiveRecord::Base
  include NaturalLanguageDate
  natural_language_date_attr :expiration_date

  validate :expiration_date_string_is_date
end

You use it by calling natural_language_date_attr on the field, and it will create a setter named :expiration_date_string which takes a string, parses it into a date, and passes it back to the :expiration_date field. The mixin also creates an _is_date validator, but you have to add the validation yourself.

The PSA admin form shows how to use all this in a form:

= f.input :expiration_date_string, input_html: { class: 'form-control' }, required: true

So, make a controller (app/controllers/staff/psas_controller.rb) with new and create actions (maybe index if you want to show pending PSAs?), the appropriate views in (app/views/staff/*.html.slim), and the routes in routes.rb.

[pstoica]

Note: PSA submissions should have the status 'new' which can only be changed on the admin side; so hide this for the end user.

[pstoica]

@nlts if you're looking for a starter/refresher issue, this one is pretty straightforward.