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Code and Homework for Week 2

Week 2 Homework

This week, you'll create a Rails app that can generate web pages on a local server.

• In order for the homework tests to pass, be sure to have your app running on port 3000 in a separate Terminal tab while you run the tests. *

Requirements

Create a Rails application that:

• Uses a controller to display a few of your favorite things in an HTML unordered list.
• You can choose any url path you want for the page, like "/my_favorites".
• You must name the route "favorites".
• Your app must also respond to the greet url and salutation querystring parameter:

http://localhost:3000/greet?salutation=Hello

• Your app should show the saluation value (Hello in this example) on the resulting web page. For example, if saluation=howdy is passed in, then howdy must be displayed on the web page.

Remember these key ideas:

• "Routes" map an incoming url path to a specific controller instance method.
• Routes can be "named". Named routes provide view helper methods you can use instead of hardcoding URL strings into your view templates.
• Controller instance methods must render a response.
• They can render a response explicitly or implicitly (using a view template).