Ruby学习笔记4: 动态web app的建立

Ruby学习笔记4： 动态web app的建立

We will first build the Categories page. This page contains topics like Art, Home & Living, and Kids, so our users can browse through categories and find what they like.

Each Category in our site will need to store information about itself, such as a name and an image. Our Category Model is what stores information about our Categories. Remember that our Model manages the data in our app.

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1. Build Model
2. Build Migration Table
3. Add Data to Tables
4. Generate Table Controller
5.
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1. Build our Model

开始之前，我们要先建立Model用来存储每个Category的数据模型。

We can generate a Model with the following rails command:

rails generate model Person

Here Person is an example name for our Model. Model names are always singular.

这里，我们建立一个叫做Category的Model：
In your terminal, generate a model named Category using the rails command. Press Enter.

rails generate model Category

In terminal:

$ rails generate model Category
invoke  active_record
create    db/migrate/20141013165110_create_categories.rb
create    app/models/category.rb
invoke    test_unit
create      test/models/category_test.rb
create      test/fixtures/categories.yml
$ 

2. Build our Migration table

Our Model is fine for now. Let's prepare our Migration table. We do this in two steps:

a. We add columns to our Category Migration table. These will define what information our database can accept.

b. We type bundle exec bundle exec rake db:migrate in our terminal to migrate our database, or update its state.

Let's look at an example. Say we had a Person Model, and we want it to have the columns name and age. In the Migration table, we add columns like this:

def change
  create_table :person do |t|
    t.string :name
    t.integer :age
    t.timestamps
  end
end

Above we add t.string :name andt.integer :age specifying the name of type string and the age of type integer. We run db:migrate to add a name and age column to our actual database.

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