Homework: H3 Rendering Data from a Controller in a View

For this homework, you will continue working on the homework-project Rails web app that you started last time. In particular, this homework will emphasize passing data from a controller to a view. It will also provide you with additional practice adding pages to your Rails web app and using Git for version control.

The tasks you will perform draw heavily from this demonstration:

• Demo 5: Adding (Mostly Static) View Pages in Rails

Part 1. Add a New Page That Displays a Question

In this part, you will add a new page that displays a question. This part should be similar to the tasks you performed in the previous homework. When you add the page, do the following:

• Add a route to the page such that the URL http://localhost:3000/question will map to the page.
• Add a controller action called question to your existing controller PagesController.
• Add a question.html.erb view and render explicitly it in a respond_to statement in the controller action.
• Make the view look like the screenshot below. The hyperlink at the bottom of the page must be implemented with the link_to helper and must link to the path of the personal profile page you created during the previous homework.

Once you have completed this part, commit the current version of the code to your local repo, and push the changes to the remote GitHub repo.

Part 2. Pass the Question Data from the Controller to the View

In this step, you must move the question data into the controller as follows:

• Add a local variable q to the existing controller action question, and assign it the string with the question text (no HTML).
• Add a local array answers to the existing controller action question, and assign a list of strings, each containing one of the possible answers to the question.
• In the controller action question, pass the above local variables to view using a local argument in the respond_to statement.
• In the view, replace the question text with embedded ruby that prints the question passed from the controller.
• In the view, replace the list items (lis) with embedded Ruby that iterates through each item in the array that was passed in and prints a list item with the contents of each array item.

When you have completed these steps, the page should appear in your browser exactly as it did before, with only the implementation having changed.

Once you have completed this part, commit the current version of the code to your local repo, and push the changes to the remote GitHub repo.