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RESTful Index Action Lab

Objectives

1. Draw a get route
2. Map a route to a controller action
3. Define a controller action
4. Load instances from ActiveRecord into a controller instance variable
5. Render a template
6. Use an instance variable from a controller action in a template
7. Iterate over an ActiveRecord collection in ERB
8. Build a classical index action/view

RESTful Routes

In this lab you will walk through how to build each element required to render a list of students out in the browser. The RSpec/Capybara tests for this lab can be found in spec/features, both tests should be passing to complete the lab.

Instructions

• Run bundle install from your terminal

• Run:

  • rake db:create
  • rake db:migrate
  • rake db:seed

• Or one-line it if you feel fancy: rake db:create && rake db:migrate && rake db:seed

• Create a route that is mapped to a students' controller index action, the resulting route should be /students

• Create a controller for students and have it inherit from ApplicationController

• Integrate a controller action in the students' controller for handling the index action

• Have the new index action call the Student model and pull in a list of all of the students with Student.all and store it in an instance variable

• Map an index.html.erb view file to the student controller and iterate over the list of students returned from the index action in the controller

Resources

• If you run into an ActiveRecord::PendingMigration error when you run the tests, try rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test in the terminal then run the tests again

Rails Routing from the Outside In

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