Your local pet adoption store has asked you to build their new website. First and foremost, the store needs a form for their staff to add puppies that are available for adoption. Good thing you love puppies and coding!
- Implement a POST request to the controller to display data from a user in the view
- Implement both POST and GET requests
- Connect a controller action with both a view and a model
The focus of this lab is to build a way for a user to go to a homepage, follow a link to a form where they can enter a puppy's information, and, upon submission, view the puppy's information.
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Build out a puppy class in
models/puppy.rb. Puppies should havename,breed, andmonths_oldattributes. You will need to be able to pass these three attributes to initialization, as well as readers or accessors for the attributes. -
In
app.rbbuild out a GET request to load a homepage. The homepage should go to the main route/. -
The home page will also need a new view
index.erb. This page should welcome you to the Puppy Adoption Site. Add this view to the controller action. -
Now, we need to create a form for a user to list a new puppy that is available for adoption. You can create this form in
views/create_puppy.erb. Remember, you'll need to set up another controller action for a user to be able to view this form in the browser. The "submit" button of a form can be an<input>element with atypeof"submit"(or a<button>element with atypeof"submit) — a plain old<button>won't do it. If you want to change the text in the button, check out these docs:
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Now we need to make sure the form is being submitted properly. You'll need to have a third controller action that takes the input from the user and renders a third view (
views/display_puppy.erb) which displays the info for the puppy that was just created. Create an instance of a puppy to hold the data about the puppy you just created. -
Add a link on the homepage to the new puppy form.
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