craftninja / rails-helpers

an app showing how to work with Rails sans-helpers and with helpers

Demo Rails App

Overview

This apps shows how to CRUD different domain objects.

• People - super simple - no validations, few Rails helpers, ERB
• Trees - similar to People, but uses resources in routes, and has validations
• Gadgets - Uses named routes helpers, link_to, and form_for throughout
• Divas - Uses implicit route helpers, content_tag, partials

Generating this app

Generate the app:

rails new rails-helpers -d postgresql -T

Delete lots of comments and unnecessary directories.

Get spec up and running by adding the following to the Gemfile

group :test do
  gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 2.14.2'
  gem 'capybara', '~> 2.2.1'
end

then run:

bundle
RAILS_ENV=test rails g rspec:install

To run migrations

bin/rake db:migrate

Getting Setup Locally

bundle
bin/rake db:create
bin/rake db:migrate
bin/rake spec