Continuing from last week’s blog, today we will go over view helper methods and how they can help to speed up our development process. Before we begin, you can download the code for today’s example at this GitHub link and follow along. I’ve made minor changes to the routes: Next…

In our last guide, we took a look at how to manually add a view file in our Rails application, how to modify the application layout, and implement basic CSS to it. This week we will discuss how to make our own layout file and incorporate partials. Starting up the…

In our last guide we finished our exploration on the Model component in a Rails application. We looked at all the ActiveRecord associations and their usage, we discussed data validation and custom scopes. …

Last week we looked at the has and belongs to many association in Rails and how it was different from the has many through/belongs to association. Today we will discuss the has one relationship, as well as data validation, custom scopes in the model component. As a reminder, our models…

In our previous blog, we took a look at the model component (The M in MVC) in a Rails application. We learned how to manually create a model and a table, add and remove columns to the table, as well as some commonly used associations between models: has many, belongs…

In our previous blog we talked about how a Rails controller acts similar to an intermediary between the routes, models, and views. Today we will look at the model component inside of a Rails application. In the simplest terms, a model is a table within our database. Such model can…

Continuing from last week’s blog on Rails controller, today we will take a look at what else we can accomplish inside of a controller, getting data from the routes via the params hash, the importance of the application controller, and what exactly is the concerns folder inside of the controllers…

In our last blog we talked about the routes in a Rails application. Today we will take a deeper look at a Rails Controller. As you might know, Rails follows the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern, when a user goes to a valid link on your site, it is…

In a previous blog, we explored about using Selenium with Ruby to automate tasks. We ran basic commands like navigating to a webpage, entering data into a search bar, clicking on a button. However we did not discuss the testing aspect of it. Today we will take a look at…