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Purpose

This is a really simple app for the purpose of demonstarting various rails related topics. The team will have regular Webex meetings to cover the topics listed so that we can grow together.

Feel free to add topics. If you do, just submit a merge request.

Topics to be covered:

Testing with RSpec -- 02/25/2015
- RSpec Basics
- Integration Testing with Request specs
- Testing for nested attributes
- Basics of FactoryGirl
Versioning
Security
Grape API
"Universal" Helpers and other rails class/module types
- Helpers
- Presenters
- Consernse
- etc.
js/json Views
params - auto generating/extracting to FactoryGirl
- how to
- pros and cons
FactoryGirl Best Practices and Advanced Concepts

Points of Interest

Some interesting things about what is being done in this project:

In the App model spec we are testing for to see it uses allows_nested_attributes_for to allow the saving of category information automatically. This is made possible by a custom matcher provided by the file in ./spec/support/accept_nested_attributes_for.rb
The "shoulda" gem is used to test for associations and validations

Excersises

Post Demo 1

In the apps_controller_spec.rb we have a pending spec to check that the app returns a 400 response the api fails to add the new app. How would we write that test, and make it work.
In the last demo we talked about wanting to make an integration test to allow us to check that the categories were added. The test is there (spec/request/app_spec.rb), what is one way we could alter the AppsController#index method to make it pass?
Right now Our categories are a little contrived. Really we should have a many to many relationship between categories and apps. See if you can make it happen

naryga / api-demo