Ruby: Scaffold Generator, AREL, Validation, One-to-many, Many-to-many

Scaffold Generator

It generates:

• Model/migration
• contoller file and implementation
• the entire view folder
• all restful routes

rails new blogDemonstration

cd blogDemonstration/

rails g scaffold Post title:string content:text

rails d scaffold Post

# in routes.rb add the root route

root "posts#index"

Arel

# show query result using gem
rails c

Hirb.enable

Post.all

Post.all.where(title: "test").where(content: "ruby")

Post.all.where("id > 2")				# where returns all, return [] when not found

Post.all.find_by(title: "test")	# find_by returns the first, return nil when not found

Post.all.find(1)								# throw ERROR if not found

Post.all.limit(3)								# give the first 3 existing

Post.all.where(title: "test").order(:created_at)

Validation

1. define a method in the model file
   1. check if your desire validation passes
   2. if not, add the column name as a symbol and the error message to the errors object
2. pass the method as a symbol to validate

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validate :penn_email
  
  def penn_email
    unless email.include? 'upenn.edu'
      errors.add(:email, 'is not a penn email')
    end
  end
end

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_validations.html#custom-validators

One-to-many

rails g scaffold User name:string

rails g scaffold Post title:string content:text user:references

rails db:migrate

# Post.rb model file
belongs_to :user

# User.rb model file
has_many :posts, dependent: :destroy

Many-to-many

Create a third table to seperate a many-to-many to two one-to-many

rails g scaffold Course name:string
rails g scaffold Student name:string

rails g Model Registration Course:references Student:references

# in Registration.rb model file
belongs_to :student
belongs_to :course