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#050 on Rails 4

Features and demonstration of Rails 4.

Notes

Key Features of Rails 4

  • Ruby 2.0 preferred; 1.9.3+ required
  • Strong Parameters
  • Turbolinks
  • Russian Doll Caching

Checking Pre-requisites and Installation

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.4.3p205 (2017-12-14 revision 61247) [x86_64-darwin17]
$ sqlite3 --version
3.19.3 2017-06-27 16:48:08 2b0954060fe10d6de6d479287dd88890f1bef6cc1beca11bc6cdb79f72e2377b
$ gem install rails -v 4.2.11
...
$ rails --version
Rails 4.2.11

Note

Creating a Simple App

$ rails new minime4
...
$ cd minime4
$ rake db:migrate
$ rails server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 4.2.11 application starting in development on http://localhost:3000
=> Run `rails server -h` for more startup options
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
[2019-02-26 11:35:32] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2019-02-26 11:35:32] INFO  ruby 2.4.3 (2017-12-14) [x86_64-darwin17]
[2019-02-26 11:35:32] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=65375 port=3000

Gem::LoadError: can’t activate sqlite3 (~> 1.3.6), already activated sqlite3-1.4.0. Make sure all dependencies are added to Gemfile.

Update Gemfile to pin gem 'sqlite3', '~> 1.3.6' and re-run bundle

Hit http://localhost:3000..

rails4-hello

Adding a Welcome Page

Using controller generator:

rails generate controller Welcome index

Adjust routes to use this as the main page.

rails4-welcome

Testing

$ rake test
Running via Spring preloader in process 65406
Run options: --seed 60891

# Running:

.

Finished in 0.340621s, 2.9358 runs/s, 2.9358 assertions/s.

1 runs, 1 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

Adding The Blog App

The getting started guide has always outlined a simple blog application. Adding the basic features to minime5:

rails generate controller Articles
rails generate model Article title:string text:text
rake db:migrate

Credits and References

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