What is SQL?

SQL is a programming language used for relational databases. To menage them and perform various operations on the data, such as adding, updating and deleting rows of data in the database or retrieving information. Commonly used SQL statements are: select, add, insert, update, delete, alter and truncate.   A relational database   is a set …

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Building my first little Ruby gem

Strategies when creating a new gem: add a module to application_controller.rb think about from where the gem should be called from     with the code above I'm going to implement a copyright that shows on all of my pages, I just have to call it with   and voila I got what I wanted: …

Deep Dive ActionView

  What is Action View?   "In Rails, web requests are handled by Action Controller and Action View. Typically, Action Controller is concerned with communicating with the database and performing CRUD actions where necessary. Action View is then responsible for compiling the response."   "To avoid cluttering the templates with boilerplate code, a number of helper classes …

Introduction to Markdown

I've recently watched a short video about github and the use of Markdown. Since WordPress supports the use of markdown i decided to get used to it for this blog but also for GitHub, example: ReadMe.md, where md stands for markdown. Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using …

Build a TDD RESTful JSON TODO-List API (pt.3)

Next on our list: controller. class TodosController < ApplicationController before_action :set_todo, only: [:show, :update, :destroy] # GET /todos def index @todos = Todo.all json_response(@todos) end # POST /todos def create @todo = Todo.create!(todo_params) json_response(@todo, :created) end # GET /todos/:id def show json_response(@todo) end # PUT /todos/:id def update @todo.update(todo_params) head :no_content end # DELETE /todos/:id …

Build a TDD RESTful JSON TODO-List API (pt.2)

Fixing the failures   ...by editing our two models: /app/models/todo.rb # app/models/todo.rb class Todo < ApplicationRecord # model association has_many :items, dependent: :destroy # validations validates_presence_of :title, :created_by end app/models/item.rb class Item < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :todo # validation validates_presence_of :name end running bundle exec rspec again will result in 0 errors as expected: Finished in …

Build a TDD RESTful JSON TODO-List API (pt.1)

I've found this awesome Tutorial on how to create a API, that is also test driven. It's going to be a easy ToDo-List where users can menage their ToDo-Lists and ToDo-Items. Let's start:   With Rails version 5, it's possible to do a API only application, which means: slim set of middlewear ApplicationController > Application::API …