11 September meeting modification (assignments defaults not sticking, seeds_helper)

I didn't use the virtual machine, it introduced new errors to me. But I was able to fix my local environment, and get everything running locally. Only the morning_glory thing is still not working but currently commented.

These are the results of the tests locally on my machine: 
884 examples, 41 failures, 47 pending 

- seeds_helper fixed
- cookie error fixed (this only happened locally for me, but i believe the fix should work globally) 
- assignment bug fixed (defaults not sticking)