Skills Test S2 Creating Simple Web Pages and Forms

Learning Goals

Main emphasis:

• Use development tools to add web pages to a platform-based (Rails) web application.
• Use development tools to add web forms to a platform-based (Rails) web application.

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

The following demos will not be the focus of this test; however, you should probably go through them first, because later demos depend on them:.

• Setting Up a New Rails Project
• Setting Up a New Github Project Repository

This test emphasizes the material covered in the following demos, so you should go through them in detail, practicing the steps for creating pages and forms.

• Adding (Mostly Static) View Pages in Rails
• Adding Images to Pages
• Adding Hyperlinks between Pages
• Rendering Data from Controllers
• Passing Data from View to Controller with Simple Forms

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/s02b
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s03a
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s03b
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s04a
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s04b