Social Media Integration

Person

• Create a person using the scaffold generator
• Show rake:db:migrate
• Set the root URL to people#index
• Show the resources routes
• Show the person_params method
• Show validation

Profile

• Create a profile object using the scaffold generator with name and description fields
• Talk about bloated user models
• Create a belongs_to relationship by adding the foreign key
• Show rake db:migrate:reset
• Show an after hook to create and destroy the profile
• Talk about REST
• Create profile controller with edit (GET) and update (POST) methods

Update Person Show

• Add the profile to the person show
• Talk about partials - extract into a partial
• Talk about layouts - demonstrate a layout
• Talk about assets - demonstrate an SCSS asset

Exercise

• Adjust your person/show.html.erb to show all the fields of the profile.
• Improve the output of the person/show.html.erb page a little.
• Improve the output of the person/index.html.erb page. Remove the html table.
• Create a header for your site in application.html.erb.
• Extract your header into a partial.
• Extend your profile with a field of your choice. Display it on the person/show.html.erb page. Modify the profile migration and use rake db:migrate:redo to load it in.

Login

• Create a session controller with new, create and destroy methods
• Add the user id to the session on create
• Get the current_user in a before_filter on application_controller
• Create a helper to check login and redraw the top bar and admin links
• Create a not_authorised method in application_controller to redirect to login if the user clicks person#show
• Create a filter on the Person method

Exercise

• Attempt to implement the session#destroy method (it should remove the user ID from the session)
• Add a top nav bar to your site. It should have a link to your profile, and a link to the index of people.
• Add a link to edit your profile to the header.
• Why do you think storing the User ID in the session might be problematic? Can you think of a better approach?

Further Exercise

• Have a look at the Rails Authentication Guide: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html
• Implement login properly using has_secure_password

Further Further Exercise

• Create a Status object, so the user can set their current status.
• The person has_many :statuses
• The status belongs_to :person
• Show a has_many method