added home controller, added some documentation about API and stuff

app/assets/javascripts/home.js.coffee

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+# Place all the behaviors and hooks related to the matching controller here.
+# All this logic will automatically be available in application.js.
+# You can use CoffeeScript in this file: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

app/assets/stylesheets/home.css.scss

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+// Place all the styles related to the Home controller here.
+// They will automatically be included in application.css.
+// You can use Sass (SCSS) here: http://sass-lang.com/

app/controllers/home_controller.rb

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+class HomeController < ApplicationController
+  def index
+
+  end
+end

app/helpers/home_helper.rb

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+module HomeHelper
+end

app/views/home/index.html.erb

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+<h1>Welcome to Online NITH Information Portal</h1>
+<p>The portal is planned to support various facilities online like online time
+  table, campus maps, online notices and stuff.</p>
+
+<p>The html version of this portal is not well designed and this portal is
+  basically made for providing an API platform to mobile applications for
+  android, iOS and Windows Phone. The developers who are interested in using
+  this API for creating mobile applications that enhance user experience of
+  people with coressponding smart phones are most welcome to ask any queries
+  about the API and are allowed to use this API without any limits.</p>
+
+<p>Your feedback regarding the API is also very much appreciated. We will take
+  full care of your feedback in enhancing the performance and qualify of our
+  JSON/XML objects passed to you via the API. Suggestions regarding the
+  improvements are also welcome.</p>
+
+<p>Code will soon be available on github so that you can view openly, edit and
+  commit changes freely.</p>
+
+<h2>Getting Started</h2>
+<p><a href="/cseteachers">CSE Teachers</a></p>
+<p><a href="/csesubjects">CSE Subjects</a></p>
+<p><a href="/bcse6s">B.Tech CSE 6th semester Time table</a></p>
+
+<h2>Usage</h2>
+<p>The usage of this portal is from two perspectives, one from the point of
+  administrator, who can add information about various teachers and subjects of
+  his department and can edit the time table for his department for all
+  semesters. The teachers information and subject information need to be
+  entered by the representative of various departments in the college. So if
+  you are from Computer Science department and representing your department,
+  then you have to add information about teachers and subjects of your
+  department at once. Teachers and subjects which are compulsory but are not
+  from your department are also needed to be entered in this list. The
+  information about these two things you just entered will be available when
+  you will be creating the time table for students of your department for
+  various semester (thats why teachers and subjects of other departments are
+  also needed which are compulsory for students of your department to study, eg:
+  Princples of Management in 6th semester)</p>
+
+<p>The other perspective of using this portal is from the your desktop/laptop
+  PC, you can view the time table in HTML format and other stuff.</p>
+
+<p>Last but most important perspective is using the API to provide good
+  frontend to users of smartphones. Just append json to any end point and you
+  will get a JSON object instead of HTML. Fetch this object, parse and display
+  on your mobile phone application.</p>
+
+<h2>TODO</h2>
+<p>A mapping facility will also be added with API</p>
+<p>A online notice facility is also desired with API</p>

config/routes.rb

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 Nith::Application.routes.draw do
 
+  get "home/index"
+
   match 'bcse6s/reset' => "bcse6s#reset"
   match 'bcse6s/recreate' => "bcse6s#recreate"
   match 'bcse6s/right' => "bcse6s#shiftright"
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   # You can have the root of your site routed with "root"
   # just remember to delete public/index.html.
-  # root :to => 'welcome#index'
+   root :to => 'home#index'
 
   # See how all your routes lay out with "rake routes"
 

test/functional/home_controller_test.rb

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+require 'test_helper'
+
+class HomeControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
+  test "should get index" do
+    get :index
+    assert_response :success
+  end
+
+end

test/unit/helpers/home_helper_test.rb

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+require 'test_helper'
+
+class HomeHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
+end