added a defualt route that leads to the home page
changed the file extention of bootstrap classes to just say .map rather than .map.css
precompiled assests for heroku
added unicorn web server to the project
changed the logout so that it used reset_session rather than setting only certain variable to nil
in view/states/_table.html.erb I fixed a potential bug 'if state.region.name != nil' to 'if state.region != nil'