spfohman/phase-4-rails-practice-challenge-students

Rails Practice Challenge - Students

Setup

To download the dependencies for backend, run:

$ bundle install

There is some starter code in the db/seeds.rb file so that once you've generated the models, you'll be able to create data to test your application.

You can run your Rails API on localhost:3000 by running:

$ rails s

There are no tests for this application, so you'll need to check your progress by running the server and using Postman make requests.

Introduction

We're going to build an API for an instructor to manage their students. Create the following database structure. You will have two models (and their corresponding tables), Student and Instructor, with the following relationships:

• An instructor has many students
• A student belongs to an instructor

The models should have the following attributes (along with any attributes needed to create the relationships defined above):

• Instructor
  • name (must be present)
• Student
  • name (must be present)
  • major
  • age (must be >= 18)

Make sure to define validations for your models so that no bad data can be saved to the database.

Deliverables

As a user, I can:

• Create, read, update and delete Instructors
• Create, read, update and delete Students
  • When creating or updating a student, they must be associated with an instructor

Follow good API design practices and use RESTful routing conventions. Make sure to handle errors and invalid data by returning the appropriate status code along with a message.

Instructions

• Time yourself while working on the deliverables
• Commit when you hit 75 minutes
• When you have finished all deliverables, commit again.