Rails 3 – Building a Blog – Part 2: CRUD Show and Create

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Really Cool!
I really like to develop using cucumber, it shows what I need to do on the next step based on my pre-defined user story.

I just think that if you are you using a resource route the develop should be easy.

Congrats! I really like this series of screencasts! Keep going!

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PotHix

I waiting patiently for part 3, do you know when it will be available?

I’m also eagerly waiting for part 3. It would bee nice to see how you change the look and feel, I’m quite new to rails so it would be bee nice to see how you approach it.

Great cast!

Here are my show notes:

# 7/27/2010
# Notes for TMTC: Rails3-Building a Blog-Part2
# The following contains some modifications from the screencast
# Haml is used in these notes instead of Erb
# Underscored at the beginning of a line represent indentation

# start episode

#posts.feature
Feature: Post Management & Display
In order to provide quality content
As an author
I need to be able to manage posts

Scenario: 1 post in blog
Given I have a post
And my post has title “My Post”
And my post has body “This is my post. Back off!!!”
And my post has author with name “Charles Max Wood”
And my post was published on “May 22, 2010″
When I display the post
Then I should see “My Post”
And I should see “This is my post. Back off!!!”
And I should see “Charles Max Wood”
And I should see “May 22, 2010″

# posts_steps.rb
When /^I display the post$/ do
visit “/post/#{@post.id}”
end

# routes.rb
get “post/:id” => “posts#show”

# posts/show.html.haml
%h2= @post.title

# posts_controller.rb
def show
@post = Post.find(params[:id]) # Post.find_by_id(params[:id]) used in screencast
end

# posts/show.html.haml
.post_meta
__%span.post_author
____written by
____= @post.author.name
__%span.post_date
____on
____= @post.published_on.strftime(“%b %d, %Y”)
.post_body
__= @post.body

# posts.feature
Scenario: Create Post
Given I have a user named “Charles Max Wood”
When I go to the posts creation page
And I fill in “post[title]” with “My Post Title”
And I fill in “post[body]” with “This is my post. Back off!!! Something here”
And I select “Charles Max Wood” from “post[author_id]”
And I fill in “post[published_on]” with “May 23, 2010″
And I press “Save Post”
Then I should see “My Post Title”
And I should see “This is my post. Back off!!! Something here”
And I should see “Charles Max Wood”
And I should see “May 23, 2010″

# posts_steps.rb
Given /^I have a user named “([^"]*)”$/ do |name|
User.create(:name => name)
end

# features/support/paths.rb
def path_to(page_name)
case page_name

when /the homes?page/
‘/’

when /the post creation page/
‘/posts/create’

# routes.rb
get “posts/create” => “posts#create”

# posts_controller.rb
def create
@post = Post.new
end

# views/posts/create.html.haml
= form_for @post :url => “/posts/create” do |form|
__%div
____= form.label :title
____= form.text_field :title
__%div
____= form.label :body
____= form.text_area :body
__%div
____= form.label :author_id
____= form.select :author_id, User.all.map {|u| [u.name, u.id]}
__%div
____= form.label :published_on
____= form.text_field :published_on
__%div= submit_tag “Save Post”

# routes.rb
post “posts/create” => “posts#create”

# posts_controller.rb
def create
__if request.post?
____@post = Post.new(params[:post])
____if @post.save
______redirect_to “/post/#{@post.id}”
____end
__else
____@post = Post.new
__end
end

# All tests pass

# Terminal
git add -A . # -A modifier will also remove deleted files
git commit -m “…”
git push

# end episode