Ask It

Ask It is a Rails Engine that brings multi types of quizzes, surveys and contests into your Rails application. Ask It models were designed to be flexible enough in order to be extended and integrated with your own models. Ask It was initially extracted from a real application that handles contests and quizzes.

Table of Contents

• Documentation
• Main Features
• Installation
• Getting Started
• Adding Survey Participants
• Survey Associations
• Survey in Views
• Scaffolds and CRUD Frameworks
• How to Use It
• Compatibility
• License

Documentation

You can view the Ask It documentation in RDoc format here:

http://rubydoc.info/github/dr-click/questionnaire/master/frames

Main Features:

• Ask It can limit the number of attempts for each participant, can have multiple sections
• Sections can have multiple questions
• Questions can have multiple answers
• Answers can have different weights and types (multi choices, single choice, number, text)
• Can use 2 languages (Main language field, Localized field) for Surveys, Sections, Questions and Answers attributes
• Base Scaffold Support for Active Admin, Rails Admin and default Rails Controllers
• Base calculation for scores
• Easy integration with your project

Installation

Add Ask It to your Gemfile for Rails 6 and 7:

gem 'ask_it'

or

gem 'ask_it'

Now generate and run migrations:

rails generate ask_it:install

bundle exec rake db:migrate

Getting started with Ask It

Survey inside your models

To make a model aware of you just need to add has_surveys on it:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_surveys

  #... (your code) ...
end

There is the concept of participant, in our example we choose the User Model. Every participant can respond to surveys and every response is registered as a attempt. By default, survey logic assumes an infinite number of attempts per participant but if your surveys need to have a maximum number of attempts you can pass the attribute attempts_number when creating them.

# Each Participant can respond 4 times this survey
AskIt::Survey.new(:name => "Star Wars Quiz", :attempts_number => 4)

Ask It used in your controllers

In this example we are using the current_user helper but you can do it in the way you want.

class ContestsController < ApplicationController

  helper_method :survey, :participant

  # create a new attempt to this survey
  def new
    @survey =  AskIt::Survey.active.last
    @attempt = @survey.attempts.new
    @attempt.answers.build
    @participant = current_user # you have to decide what to do here
  end

  # create a new attempt in this survey
  # an attempt needs to have a participant assigned
  def create
    @survey = AskIt::Survey.active.last
    @attempt = @survey.attempts.new(attempt_params)
    @attempt.participant = current_user
    if @attempt.valid? and @attempt.save
      redirect_to view_context.new_attempt_path, alert: I18n.t("attempts_controller.#{action_name}")
    else
      flash.now[:error] = @attempt.errors.full_messages.join(', ')
      render :action => :new
    end
  end
  
  #######
  private
  #######

  # Rails 4 Strong Params
  def attempt_params
    if Rails::VERSION::MAJOR < 4
      params[:survey_attempt]
    else
      params.require(:survey_attempt).permit(answers_attributes: [:id, :question_id, :option_id, :option_text, :option_number, :predefined_value_id, :_destroy, :finished])
    end
  end
  
end

Survey Associations

To add a survey to a particular model (model has_many :surveys), use the has_many_surveys helper

class Lesson < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many_surveys

  #... (your code) ...
end

Then, create a module mixin that adds belongs_to to the survey model based on your class name

# app/models/survey/belongs_to_lesson.rb
module Survey
  module BelongsToLesson
    extend ActiveSupport::Concern
    included do
      belongs_to :lesson
    end
  end
end

This will dynamically add the association to the survey model. However, you will need to generate a migration in order to add the foreign key to the survey_surveys table like so:

class AddLessonIdToSurveySurveys < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :survey_surveys, :lesson_id, :integer
  end
end

Survey inside your Views

Controlling Survey avaliability per participant

To control which page participants see you can use method avaliable_for_participant? that checks if the participant already spent his attempts.

<h3><%= flash[:alert]%></h3>
<h3><%= flash[:error]%></h3>

<% if @survey.avaliable_for_participant?(@participant) %>
  <%= render 'form' %>
<% else %>
  <p>
    <%= @participant.name %> spent all the possible attempts to answer this Survey
  </p>
<% end -%>

<% # in _form.html.erb %>
<h1><%= @survey.name %></h1>
<p><%= @survey.description %></p>
<%= form_for(@attempt, :url => attempt_scope(@attempt)) do |f| %>
  <%= f.fields_for :answers do |builder| %>
    <ul>
      <% seq = 0 %>
      <% @survey.sections.each do |section| %>
        <p><span><%= "#{section.head_number} : " if section.head_number %></span><%= section.name%></p>
        <p><%= section.description if section.description %></p>
        <% section.questions.each do |question| %>
          <% seq += 1 %>
          <li>
            <p><span><%= "#{question.head_number} : " if question.head_number %></span><%= question.text %></p>
            <p><%= question.description if question.description %></p>
            <% question.options.each do |option| %>
              
              
              <% if option.options_type_id == AskIt::OptionsType.multi_choices %>
                <%= hidden_field_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][question_id]", question.id %>
                <%= check_box_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][option_id]", option.id %>
                <% seq += 1 %>
              <% elsif option.options_type_id == AskIt::OptionsType.single_choice %>
                <%= hidden_field_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][question_id]", question.id %>
                <%= radio_button_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][option_id]", option.id %>
              <% elsif option.options_type_id == AskIt::OptionsType.number %>
                <%= hidden_field_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][question_id]", question.id %>
                <%= hidden_field_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][option_id]", option.id %>
                <%= number_field_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][option_number]", "", :style => "width: 40px;" %>
                <% seq += 1 %>
              <% elsif option.options_type_id == AskIt::OptionsType.text %>
                <%= hidden_field_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][question_id]", question.id %>
                <%= hidden_field_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][option_id]", option.id %>
                <%= text_field_tag "survey_attempt[answers_attributes][#{seq}][option_text]", "" %>
                <% seq += 1 %>
              <% end %>
              
              <%= option.text %> <br/>
            <% end -%>
          </li>
        <% end -%>
      <% end -%>
    </ul>
  <% end -%>
  <%= f.submit "Submit" %>
<% end -%>

Scaffolds and CRUD frameworks

If you are using Rails Admin or Active Admin, you can generate base CRUD screens for Survey with:

rails generate survey active_admin

rails generate survey rails_admin

If you want a simple way to get started you can use the plain option which is a simple Rails scaffold to generate the controller and views related with survey logic. By default when you type rails g survey plain it generates a controller in the admin namespace but you can choose your own namespace as well:

rails generate survey plain namespace:contests

By default when you generates your controllers using the plain command the task generates the associated routes as well. Afterwards if you want to generate more routes, you can using the command:

rails generate survey routes namespace:admin

How to use it

Every user has a collection of attempts for each survey that he respond to. Is up to you to make averages and collect reports based on that information. What makes Survey useful is that all the logic behind surveys is now abstracted and well integrated, making your job easier.

Hacking with Survey through your Models:

# select the first active Survey
survey = AskIt::Survey.active.first

# select all the attempts from this survey
survey_answers = survey.attempts

# check the highest score for current user
user_highest_score  = survey_answers.for_participant(@user).high_score

#check the highest score made for this survey
global_highest_score = survey_answers.high_score

Compability

Rails

Survey supports Rails 3 and 4. For use in Rails 4 without using protected_attributes gem. Rails 4 support is recent, so some minor issues may still be present, please report them.

Active Admin

Only support versions of Active Admin higher than 0.3.1.

License

• Modified by Dr-Click
• Copyright © 2013 Runtime Revolution, released under the MIT license.
• This repository was forked from the original one : https://github.com/clearfunction/questionnaire

Thanks to Gems

• Appraisal
• Code Climate
• Simplecov
• Rspec
• Rails