Request / Response MVC!

• Fork this repo

• Clone this repo

• Create your controllers in app/controllers

  • Make sure they all inherit from ApplicationController

• Create your routes in config/router.rb

• Test out all the routes from the assignment using Postman

• All responses should be in JSON format.

• Run the server with ruby bin/server.rb

  • Please note: The server will need to be restarted every time you change your code.

• The server file should be loading all your files in app/controllers and app/models. It has also loaded pry and json for you.

• You will be using the Postman app for any requests that are not GET requests.

• All GET requests can be displayed directly in the browser by navigating to the URL requested.

• In the assignment instructions, if the type of the request is not specified, it can be assumed to be GET.

Defining Routes

• In config/router.rb you will write your routes using the private methods that are provided.
• If a route takes an id, you can't create a route for every possible number, so you will use a 'dynamic route'.
• A 'dynamic route' looks like this :id and the router will look for anything that fits inside of that.
• If you had a route defined like this get('/tweets/:id, TweetsController, :show) then it would match these urls:
  • /tweets/1
  • /tweets/99999
  • /tweets/foobar
  • /tweets/2/edit <- You probably dont want your show route to match your edit route and thats why..
• Orders matters with routes in the route file. They are searched from top to bottom and the search stops the first time the router finds a valid route.
• So your most specific routes need to go first.

Creating a controller

• All controllers should exist inside of app/controllers/ and their name should follow a pattern. tweets_controller.rb
• Notice that 'tweets' is plural.
• The class must also inherit from ApplicationController to work properly with the router.
• An empty tweets_controller.rb would look something like this:

class TweetsController < ApplicationController
  # your actions go here...
end