nicklathe / bog_app_lab

A "Bog" Adventure App - Intro to Rails

background
A bog is a mire that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses.

Researchers at your local biology lab are exploring and documenting a series of bogs, and the creatures of interest. Our job is to encourage people in the community to explore the bogs and submit their findings using our web application.

We'll be creating a single model app to demonstrate editing resources. It's important to get comfortable with the process of starting a new Rails app since you'll be doing that for quite awhile

##Components

Bog Model

• A creature model that stores name and description

Bog Controller

• A controller for your home page
• A controller that manages bog creature

Bog Routes / Views

route	action / view	bonus?
GET /	Your home page	no.
GET /creature	list all creatures	no.
GET /creature/new	show add creature form	no.
POST /creature	create creature (no view)	no.
GET /creature/1	list creature (id=1)	no.
GET /creature/2/edit	show edit creature form (id=2)	bonus
PUT /creature/3	update an existing creature (id=3)	bonus

##Recommended Process

###Create basic app

• Fork / clone
• cd into directory
• Create app rails new ./ -T
• Test app
  • Run server rails s
  • Goto localhost:3000

###Build specific functionality

• Create model rails g model ... (you write the rest of this command)
• Migrate rake db:migrate
• Test models
  • run console rails c
  • Try some stuff...
    • Creature.all
    • Creature.create
    • Createre.new
    • Creature.find
    • ...etc ...etc
• Close console run rails s
• Create routes...
  • Add route to routes.rb
  • Add controller / action
  • Add view
  • Test (go to url in browser)
  • Repeat for each view
• Add HTML to each view
  • Use bootstrap
  • Make it pretty... oh so pretty!!!
• Add code to make the app functional

Bonus

• Make a navigation bar
• Make an edit form to edit an existing Creature
• Make a delete button for each Creature