Skills Test S3 Model Basics

Learning Goals

Main Goals

• Use a web development platform (Rails) to create and use a back-end model class for storing data in a database.
• Use a web development platform (Rails) to insert seed data in a database.
• Use a web development platform (Rails) to render backend data on a page by passing data from a controller to a view.

Ancillary Goals

• Setup and maintain a functioning platform-based (Rails web) development environment.
• Use development tools to initialize and run an existing platform-based (Rails web) application.

Preparing for the Test

As always, make sure that you have gone through the General Skills Test Instructions

This test emphasizes the material covered in the following demos, so you should go through them in detail, practicing the steps for creating models, seeding the database, and making index and show pages.

• Creating Model Classes
• Automatically Annotating Model Code
• Seeding the Database
• Displaying All Model Records
• Displaying a Single Model Record

Practice Problems

Practice solving these old skills tests. To make the test apps run in these, you must edit config/database.yml and comment out the username and password lines. You must also make sure that Ruby version 2.6.3 is installed by running the command rvm install 2.6.3.

• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s05a
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s05b
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s0502a
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s0502b

Additionally(!), practice making show pages as well.