TTY Prompt

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Goals

• Practice setting up TTY Prompt in an application

WATCH THIS FIRST

https://youtu.be/4OL-SLxa65U

ERD

Our ERD looks as following:

  Category
    |
    ^
  PlantCategory
    V
    |
  Plant ----< PlantParenthood >----   Person
    |                                   |
    |                                   |
    |                                   |
     --------< Watering >---------------

Description of the models:

• Category -- it is a category of the plant, for example: "leafy", "succulent", "indoor", "outdoor"
• Plant -- self-explanatory
• PlantCategory -- since now Plant can have many Categories and vice-versa, we have a many-to-many relationship and need a joiner;
• Person -- since not everyone interacting with the plant will be a plant_parent, let's change the name of this model to the Person -- THAT'S OUR USER!
• PlantParenthood -- describes a relationship of ownership between a person and a plant
• Watering -- describes every situation when a person waters the plant

Roadmap:

1. Set up the interface
   • video: https://youtu.be/FBzwXYfHPGI
   • add tty-prompt to the Gemfile, bundle install
   • add the Interface class that does not work with the database (i.e. does not need to inherit from ActiveRecord), add necessary macros
   • add a new rake task to start the app
2. Add Interfact#welcome method that will welcome the user and give them first options
   • video: https://youtu.be/6f3nfU7fl7o
   • use prompt.select method to display the following options: "See all plants", "Sign up", "Exit"
   • create scaffolding of corresponding methods
     • video: https://youtu.be/RPJ7ONtimbY
   • create a recursive loop for when the user takes already-taken name
     • video: https://youtu.be/687p081KfmY
   • direct the user to the main menu
3. Add User#adopt_a_plant method
   • video: https://youtu.be/nil4u1DjsGM
   • use a hash of species and ids of plants to make choosing easier
   • create an instance of a joiner (PlantParenthood) via TTY::Prompt

WATCH THIS AT THE END

https://youtu.be/Mlnx2GTXkgU