Take 30 minutes with your table choose a resource that your server contains data about. A resource will be something like 'books', 'users', 'episodes', or 'characters', something that your users will be performing CRUD actions on.
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Write out the 7 RESTful routes that correspond to the 4 CRUD actions. Be sure to include the HTTP verb, the name of the route and the corresponding CRUD action.
- What SQL (if applicable) would be fired in the controller actions for each of the routes?
- Why might it be important that routes and resources have a conventional structure?
- Which routes would you
rendera view and for which would youredirect toanother route? Why?
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Let's say you have built a Sinatra app that is a blogging platform. You have a Post and an Author model and you have controllers and routes for the CRUD actions of each model. You sit down at your computer and visit www.youramazingsinatrablog.com/posts:
- What kind of web request is this making? (i.e. is it a
GET,POST, etc request?) - What controller action (i.e. which route in which controller) will recieve that web request?
- What is the response that your Sinatra app will send back to the client, i.e. the browser?
- What kind of web request is this making? (i.e. is it a
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Spend a few minutes mapping out a domain model for a parking lot. How would you model the relationship between cars and spaces? How would you keep track of how long a car had been parked in a space? How would you keep track of how much money someone would need to pay for having parked a certain amount of time?