Skills Test S6 One-to-Many Associations

Learning Goals

Main Goals

• Use a web development platform (Rails) to create and use a one-to-many association between back-end model classes for storing data in a database.
• Use a web development platform (Rails) to create automated tests of the model (including associations).
• Use a web development platform (Rails) to create front-end UI features for CRUDing model objects stored in a back-end database (including association links between objects).

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.

• Creating a New Model Class to Associate With

This test emphasizes the material covered in the following demos, so you should go through them in detail, practicing the steps for creating one-to-many model class associations and for integrating such associations into RESTful resource actions and pages.

• One-to-Many Model Associations
• Forms That Handle One-to-Many Associations

Past Versions of the Test

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/s09a
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/s09b
• https://github.com/memphis-cs/skills-test-2019-fall/tree/special-test