Rails Routing Basics Lab

Learning Goals

Create a route
Map a route to a controller/action
Send JSON data as a response

Introduction

We'll continue building our API for viewing student data. In this lesson, we'll add some routes and controller logic for displaying data about our students.

To get set up, run:

$ bundle install
$ rails db:migrate db:seed

This will download all the dependencies for our app and set up the database.

Instructions

Index Route

Create a route for making a GET request to /students
Generate a StudentsController with an index action for handling the route; don't forget to pass the --no test framework argument!
In the index action, return JSON data representing a list of all students

Grades Route

Create a route for making a GET request to /students/grades
Add a grades action in the StudentsController for handling that route
In the grades action, return JSON data representing a list of all students, ordered by grade from highest to lowest

Bonus: Highest Grade Route

Un-comment out the last test in /spec/requests/students_spec.rb to complete the bonus.

Create a route for making a GET request to /students/highest-grade
Add a highest_grade action in the StudentsController for handling that route
In the highest_grade action, return JSON data representing the one student with the highest grade
Note: while the other two routes should return an array of data, this route should return just one student object!

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