Carmer

Migration with ActiveRecord and Rails

Basic CLI commands

1.) Create a new table

• rails g migration CreateTask title:string description:text

class AddStartDateToTask < ActiveRecord::Migration

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1606-BE Resources

HTML & CSS

• W3 schools
• Bootstrap Components

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1. rails new <project_name> -d postgresql --skip-turbolinks --skip-spring -T

• -d postgresql sets up the project to use PostgreSQL
• --skip-turbolinks & --skip-spring creates a project that does not use turbolinks or spring
• -T skips the creation of the test directory and use of Test::Unit

2. In the Gemfile:

• Available to all environments:
  • gem 'figaro' - store environment variables securely across your app (docs)
  • Uncomment gem 'bcrypt', '~> 3.1.7' if you will be hosting your own user accounts with passwords (docs)
• Inside of group :test:
  • gem 'rspec-rails' - user rspec in place of minitest (docs)

Carmer

Things For Review / Exploration

This is a guide to keep you busy over intermission. What you choose to do here will be highly dependant on what you need to review, ramp up on, or learn.

What should I do??

You don't HAVE to do any of this. You will not be graded, but most likely there are some things here you SHOULD do. I would suggest you do something over break to keep the rust off. At this point you are almost finished with Turing, and you should be a self-sustainable learner. That means you should be able to judge what you need to do. Here is what I would suggest:

1. Redoing, or doing something much like the mid-mod is good practice for everyone.