Learning Ruby On Rails: Day 11

“Black and Blue: The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness” Artist: Zak Ové

Today I created a store application called depot:

What happens in the depot?

• Buyer can browse items, select items to purchase, supply info to make an order.
• Seller can keep inventory of items to sell, determine orders that are ready to ship and those which have already been shipped.

What do I do to prepare (after writing out user stories)?

• Draw out user flows.
• Draw out data diagram.
• Create the Rails project using the command, rails new depot.
• Create the database migration, model, controller, views, and helper for products using the command, rails generate scaffold Product title:string description:text image_url:string price:decimal.

Other stuff I learned:

• A migration represents a change we want to make to the database as a whole, or a change we want to make to the data. These updates can change both the schema and the actual data in the database.
• A magic command that will undo and redo our last migration is: rails db:migrate:redo.
• If we change the schema in the code, we run rails db:migrate and rails looks for all the migrations not yet applied and applies them.
• We want to be able to seed the data so that each programmer doesn’t have to manually enter their own data. Add data to file and then run rails db:seed.

Today I created a Rails project, set up a development database and configured the application to be able to connect to it. I created a products controller and model and set up migrations to create the corresponding products table. Many views have been created as well.

Next step, get product listings tidied up.