/rails-national-parks

Celebrate America's natural beauty in a Rails app [ruby, rails]

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National Parks

The National Park Service was created in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson in order to preserve America's natural and historic scenery. The NPS oversees over 400 units of preserves, monuments, battlefields, and parks. 59 of these units are officially designated as National Parks.

Let's create an app to showcase these wonderful parks.

##Getting Started

  • Fork and clone this repository
  • Follow the recommended process for creating your Rails app.

##Components

Models

  • A Park model that stores the following attributes. Choose the appropriate data types for each (string or text)
    • name
    • description
    • picture (for now, have this store a URL to a picture of a park)

Controllers

  • A controller for your home page
  • A controller for your Park model

Routes and Views

route description controller action/view
GET / Your home page home index
GET /parks list all parks parks index
GET /parks/new show add park form parks new
POST /parks create park parks create (no view)
GET /parks/1 list park (id=1) parks show
GET /parks/2/edit show edit park form (id=2) parks edit
PUT /parks/3 update an existing park (id=3) parks update (no view)
DELETE /parks/3 delete an existing park (id=3) parks destroy (no view)

Remember: you can list all routes by running rake routes at the command line.

##Recommended Process

###Create basic app

  • Fork and clone this repo
  • cd into the directory
  • Create app rails new ./ -T -d postgresql
  • Create database rake db:create
  • Test app
    • Run server rails s

###Build specific functionality

  • Create model rails g model ... (you write the rest of this command)
  • Migrate rake db:migrate
  • Test models
    • run console rails c
    • Try some stuff...
      • Park.all
      • Park.create
      • Park.new
      • Park.find
  • Create functionality
    • Add routes to routes.rb. Use resources to create a set of RESTful CRUD routes
    • Add controllers, actions, and views where appropriate
    • Add functionality for each controller action
    • Test as needed

Styling

  • Style the pages. Play around with adding a navigation bar or carousels.
  • If using Bootstrap, use the Bootstrap form helper. Makes Bootstrap forms easily.

Bonuses

Licensing

  1. All content is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
  2. All software code is licensed under GNU GPLv3. For commercial use or alternative licensing, please contact legal@ga.co.