Everyone needs a text editor!
Adding Bootstrap To Rails app via instructions at http://www.erikminkel.com/2013/09/01/twitter-bootstrap-3-in-a-rails-4-application/. See Notes Below for hints.
*Copy the stylesheet files (anything ending in .css) out of the bootsrap dist/css folder and into vendor/assets/stylesheets
*Copy the scripts (anything ending in .js) out of the bootsrap dist/js into vendor/assets/javascripts
*Copy the entire fonts folder directly into vendor/assets.
Using Bootswatch Journal Theme for Bootstrap: http://bootswatch.com/journal/ 
*Replace bootstrap.css and bootstrap.min.css with the files from the theme.
Ignoring DS_Store files on Mac (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/107701/how-can-i-remove-ds-store-files-from-a-git-repository)
Setup Font Awesome for cool icons
Adding a main navbar and resources for the course
Tweaking setup instructions
Add Contact Info to Navbar
Add Users to project to allow user signups.  Using bcrypt-ruby and has_secure_password for auth
Adding Sessions to app to enable users to log in, log out, and be remembered while using the website.
Notes on migrations
Display flash errors, too
Adding Admin required to app controller
Add surveys, survey questions, and survey responses to the database.  Surveys can have many questions, and questions can have many responses.  Responses belong to users.
Scaffold surveys
I like Flatly better (http://bootswatch.com/flatly/)
Moar Icons
Adding name and description to surveys
It's important to define the parameters that the controller should accept when creating a new object.  Otherwise it presents a potential security threat of extra parameters coming in with the form