Skills Test S5 RESTful Resources

Learning Goals

Main Goals

• Use a web development platform (Rails) to create front-end UI features for CRUDing model objects stored in a back-end database.

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.
• Use a web development platform (Rails) to create and use a back-end model class for storing data in a database.

Preparing for the Test

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

The following demo is not the focus of this test; however, you should run through it first, because it is a prerequisite to the demos that are the focus.

• Displaying Notification Messages Using the Flash

This test emphasizes the material covered in the following demos, so you should go through them in detail, practicing the steps for creating new/create form pages, edit/update form pages, and destroy controller actions.

• Forms for Creating New Model Records
• Forms and Actions for Updating Model Records
• Actions for Deleting Model Records

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/s07a
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s07b
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s08a
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s08b

Additionally(!), practice making edit/update form pages and destroy links/actions as well.