Day 93 : #100DaysofCode - Learning About Rails Backend

Today was a hard day, I found out some heartbreaking stuff and I am really saddened by it, but they say he gives his toughest tasks to his strongest soldiers. I have to keep going.

I struggled with coding and felt overwhelmed by Javascript today, but luckily I have amazing friends who reminded me that I can do anything. So, I still attempted to create an app with a ruby on rails backend while watching a code along.

Below is the repo, I wrote the steps I took in the README.md.

SincerelyBrittany / notes-ruby-js-backend

README

#Step By Step Build

#Setting Up The Rails API

1. Create a folder mkdir todo-js-ruby
2. cd into mkdir todo-js-ruby
3. Create a new rails app -- ``rails new -api --database-postgresql
4. cd into the new-app-name

#Gemfile

1. Uncomment out gem 'rack-cors'
2. Run bundle
3. Go to your config/initializers/cors.rb file.

Uncomment/add the following code:

Rails.application.config.middleware.insert_before 0, Rack::Cors do
  allow do
    origins '*'

    resource '*',
      headers: :any,
      methods: [:get, :post, :put, :patch, :delete, :options, :head]
  end
end

#Create a controller:

1. rails g controller notes
2. Create a version folder. app/controllers/api/v1
3. Add controller into version folder --> app/controllers/api/v1/notes_controller.rb
4. Namespace the controller:

class Api::V1::NotesController < ApplicationController
end

5. Add data into your controller -- rememeber to render json

class Api::V1::NotesController < ApplicationController
    def index
        @notes = Note.all
        render json: @notes, status: 200
    end
    def show 
        @note = Note.find(params[:id])
        render json: @note, status: 200
    end 

    def create
        @note = Note.create(note_params)
        render json: @note, status: 200
    end 

    def update
        @note = Note.find(params[:id])

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View on GitHub

I did not get to finish the code along but I did learn a lot. Feel free to use the step by step guide I provided in the readme.

Thanks for reading!

Sincerely,
Brittany