RAILS TODOLIST TUTORIAL

rails realtodo
cd realtodo
rake db:create

ruby  script/plugin install http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts_as_authenticated
ruby script/generate authenticated user account

Add the AuthenticatedSystem to /app/controllers/application.rb

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
helper :all # include all helpers, all the time
include AuthenticatedSystem

And now our todo list. generated just like before.

script/generate scaffold Todo title:string body:text done:boolean due:datetime

We also need to add the user_id column to the Todo, we don’t do this in scaffolding so that we don’t have to removed user_id from all of the generated forms.

script/generate migration add_user_id_to_todo

edit the generated file /db/migrate/003_add_user_id_to_todo.rb

class AddUserIdToTodo < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
add_column :todos, :user_id, :integer
end

def self.down
remove_column :todos, :user_id
end
end

modify the todo.rb and user.rb files. We need to add the one to many relation

/app/models/todo.rb

class Todo < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
end

/app/models/user.rb (Lots of stuff in this generated class, just add has_many :todos

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# Virtual attribute for the unencrypted password
attr_accessor :pass
has_many :todos

Change the todo controller so that login is required by adding
near the top of the controller.

/app/controllers/todos_controller.rb

class TodosController < ApplicationController
before_filter :login_required

act_as_authenticated adds the curent_user object everywhere. This is great because we can just use it in our controller. We only want to show todo’s for each user, and other users should  not be able to see other users todos. To do this we need to change how todo are loaded and saved.

def index
#@todos = Todo.find(:all)
@todos = current_user.todos

def show
#@todo = Todo.find(params[:id])
@todo = current_user.todos.find(params[:id])

def new
#@todo = Todo.new
@todo = current_user.todos.create

def edit
#@todo = Todo.find(params[:id])
@todo = current_user.todos.find(params[:id])

def create
#@todo = Todo.new(params[:todo])
@todo = current_user.todos.create(params[:todo])

def update
#@todo = Todo.find(params[:id])
@todo = current_user.todos.find(params[:id])

def destroy
@todo = current_user.todos.find(params[:id])
@todo.destroy

With the controller created we now need an index page to link everything together.

delete the /public/index.html file

generate a new controller for the main page

script/generate controller Main

Define and index function on the main controller

  def index
end

and create a new view under views/main/index.rhtml

Todo lists

<% if current_user == :false %>
<%= link_to "Login",   {:controller => ‘account’, :action => ‘login’}%>

<%= link_to "Signup",  {:controller => ‘account’, :action => ’signup’}%>
<% else %>
You are logged in as <%= current_user.login %>

<%= link_to "Todos", {:controller => ‘todos’, :action => ‘index’}%>

<%= link_to "Logout", {:controller => ‘account’, :action => ‘logout’}%>
<% end%>

Edit the account controller to return to the main index page by default

change every redirect_back_or_default(:controller => ‘/account’, :action => ‘index’) to
redirect_back_or_default(:controller => ‘/main’, :action => ‘index’)

add the following line to /config/routes.rb

 map.root :controller => “main”

from the command line
rake db:migrate
script/server

open url :http://localhost:3000/