adding waiter controller, should help down the road?
missed a typo
deciding to use raphael and svg.  Need to get that working QUICKLY
minor improvements
Moving forward ever so slowly with arriving a party
Figured out how to use action param in button_to.  so there's that
Additionally, craedPry oe fr cratingwhen the showup.
Removing parties controller (superfluous) and partway to getting button_to to return JSON
Finally got AJAX working.  Now need to add steps to put partial on screen, then let the user click on a button there to assign party to a table
Got button to return HTML partial.  Still need to bring that HTML onto page.  Separately, should probably refactor the arrival logic into party entirely (bring partial view over to party directories) for clarity and ease.
style applied to the partial.  Unfortunately, it's currently two buttons.  Would like to change that, but haven't figured out label styling yet.
major overhaul.  Fixed CSS height for waiter-list, got arrival-partial displaying as desired (minus the JS onclick).  Need to get tables drawn correctly now so parties can be assigned.The remainder of changes are purely cosmetic.
Figured out DB architecture for tables.  There is something wrong with the actual subclassing, as round tables don't have a radius and rectables don't have a width/height.  Next step needs to be figure that out.  However, from there, should be easy to just pull them all up and draw them onload from raphael (pass back some type of JSON indicating each table?).  From there, move on to other models (party and waiter)
Mostly correct implementation of tables. Need to figure out how to create the subclass such that it automatically has the right association (currently, I've had to add :type to attr_accessible, which is VERY BAD.  Next step is to JSONize the Ruby objects.  Whether to do this in the controller and pass back to view (seems to break the contracts) or to pass back raw Ruby objects to JS/Coffeescript and JSONify client-side (not sure if I even can handle Ruby in my javascripts...asset pipeline and whatnot), is not yet clear.
Cleanup of various migration files that ended up being superfluous
Okay, for real this time...
JSON passing back to the client onload.  Raphael can't render it yet, for some reason.  That's the next step.  Meanwhile, restaurants have been added as a resource.  Could easily do a full feature branch on getting the app architected to handle tables and parties through restaurants (worthwhile), while allowing waiters to exist across restaurants?
Completed table functionality.  They print properly.  Still need to apply formatting and clean up seeds.rb