Misk Rails API

Details

Heroku Link

• This is an API only practice app for an Axios lesson.
• This has an Event model with name:string and description:string fields.
• This app allows full CRUD on the Event resource.
• This app also includes the Faker gem to seed the database.

To run locally

1. git clone https://github.com/sei-eternity/rails-api-app-for-axios-practice
2. cd
3. bundle
4. rails db:create db:migrate db:seed
5. rails s

Instructions to build from scratch

1. rails new api-only --api -d postgresql --skip-test

2. Gemfile

   gem 'faker'
   gem 'rack-cors'

3. bundle

4. rails g scaffold events name description

5. rails db:create db:migrate db:seed

6. db/seeds.rb

   10.times do
     newEvent = {
       name: Faker::Coffee.unique.blend_name,
       description: Faker::Hipster.sentence(5)
     }
   
     Event.create(newEvent)
   end

7. rails s

   

8. In config/database.yml, remove username and password from production

9. git add -A

10. git commit -m 'first commit'

11. heroku login

12. heroku create <NAME-OF-APP>

13. git push heroku master

14. heroku run rake db:migrate

15. heroku run rake db:seed

Additional Resources

• Faker Gem
• Rails API
• Heroku Deploy
• CORS: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
• rack-cors gem