mtam2 / simple_rails_data

Rails app to import CSV files and display data

This Ruby on Rails app imports data from CSV files and displays them into tables and JSON format.

Model

There exists 3 tables Events with Columns: id, name, location, price, date People with Columns: id, first_name, last_name, email, gender, city, street, state, country, language, birthdate Attendance with Columns: person_id, event_id

Controllers

Event controller was the only one used due to the simplicity of this model.

Views

Only two views exist, the main '/' and '/event/#'. Anything else redirects to '/'.

API

You can submit a GET request to '/event/#.json' to get a JSON Response of attendees of a specific event.

Creation

To create an app similar to this, follow these steps:

1. Gem install rails

2. Rails new Event --database=postgresql

3. Rails g controller event

   a. Create a home.html.erb file in /Events/app/views/event/

   b. Edit /Events/config/routes.rb with root 'event#home'

4. rails g model Event name:string location:string price:string date:date

5. rails g model Person first_name:string last_name:string email:string gender:string city:string city:string street:string state:string country:string language:string birthdate:string

6. rails g model Attendance event:references person:references

7. Edit database.yml a. Added template: template0 to the default setup

8. Rake db:create

9. Rake db:migrate

10. Create your views, controllers, and routes. Add any migrations if you need to edit the model.

11. rails s -p $PORT -b $IP