abrahamhall84/weekend_blog_lab

Blog Lab

For this weekend, we'd like you to start building the foundation for a blog. Your blog will have full CRUD on two resources, authors and posts. The association you should keep in mind is that one author can write many posts.

Before you get started, read and review:

• Rails Routing from the Outside In
  • Read Nested Resources, especially 2.7.2 Shallow Nesting
• Active Record Associations
  • Read ActiveRecord::Associations::ClassMethods
  • Especially, focus on understanding "Deleting from associations"
  • Read Foreign Keys
• Active Record Validations

Getting started

1. Generate the rails application
2. Generate your models
   • authors should have a first_name, last_name and age
   • posts should have a title, body, category and author_id
   • one author has many posts, and when an author is deleted, the author's posts should be deleted as well.
3. Set up your associations and validations
   • all authors must have a first_name and last_name
   • first_name and last_name should be between 4 and 20 characters long
   • age must be a number
   • all posts must have a title, body and category
   • the title must be at least 3 characters long
4. Test everything in Rails Console

   • if you have set up your associations correctly, you should be able to type

      a = Author.create(first_name: "Elie", last_name: "Schoppik", age: 26)
      a.posts # this should not throw an error
      
      p = Post.create(title: "First post", body: "Awesome post", category: "none", author_id: 1)
      p.author # this should not throw an error either
     

5. Generate your controllers and views
   • make sure you give both of your resources full CRUD
6. Refactor your routes to use resources
   • since you have a model that belongs to another, you will be using nested resources.
7. Start working on the controllers
   • Make sure you are displaying any errors upon creation/updating as well as flash messages when data is added/changed
8. All of your views should use Rails form and link helpers. You should not be writing <form> or <a> tags at all!

Bonus

1. Once your application is working, add bootswatch and style the app!
2. Add some interactivity to your page!