niccokunzmann / rails-books-library

Small book management tool written to get familiar with rails and data migration #BP2012H1

rails-books-library

Small book management tool written to get familiar with rails #BP2012H1

Useful links:

• Rails Getting Started: I am following this guide so far.
• Rails Migrations

I think we should use this readme or the wiki to gather our insights.

Steps so far

Note 1: These steps have already been done in the repository.

Note 2: If you are surprised by the amount of code: I haven't written a single line of code so far, everything was created by rails and its generators.

1. rails new rails-books-library generated the skeleton of the rails app with all necessary folders
2. Do this locally: create your own SQLite database with rake db:create (see Getting Started above)
3. rails generate controller home index to generate the first controller
4. rails generate scaffold Book title:string author:string to generate a model Book with a title and an author
5. rails generate model Comment commenter:string body:text post:references and then followed the steps in step 7
6. Do this locally: run rake db:migrate to migrate the database

What to do

###Summary of the tasks the app is supposed to support:

• enter books
• lend them to students

###Requirements

• using a relation database for persistence
• run on heroku.com

###Questions

• How is persistence achieved in rails?
• Migrations-DSL von Rails?
• Which assumptions does the framework make?
• Which assumptions does heroku make?