Adopt Don't Shop

BE Mod 2 Week 1 Solo Project Live app

Rails Application

Adopt Don't Shop is an app that has pet shelters and their associated pets for adoption.

Learning Goals

Rails

• Implement CRUD functionality for a resource using forms (form_tag), buttons, and links
• Use MVC to organize code effectively, limiting the amount of logic included in views and controllers
• Create routes for
  • standalone resources
  • nested resources
• Template a view in Rails using a templating language (eg, erb)
• Implement CRUD functionality for nested resources

ActiveRecord

• Create instance methods on a Rails model that use ActiveRecord associations
• Use built-in ActiveRecord methods to: create, read, update, and destroy records in a database
• create records with relationships to other records in a database

Databases

• Describe Database Relationships, including the following terms:
  • Primary Key
  • Foreign Key
  • One to Many
• Write migrations to create tables and relationships between tables Describe ORMs and their advantages and use cases

Testing and Debugging

• Write feature tests utilizing:
  • RSpec and Capybara
• CSS selectors to target specific areas of a page
• Use Pry or Byebug in Rails files to get more information about an error
• Use save_and_open_page to view the HTML generated when visiting a path in a feature test
• Utilize the Rails console as a tool to get more information about the current state of a development database
• Use rails routes to get additional information about the routes that exist in a Rails application

Styling

Web Applications

• Describe the HTTP request/response cycle
• Describe the different parts of HTTP requests and responses