Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"Do you mean to tell me that we could have done all the work from the previous ten videos in half an hour?!"
Yes. (But the purpose of the Getting Started with Rails guide is education, so it slowed things down, added them in incrementally, and explained them.)
This is the 11th video in the Getting Started with Rails 7 series. In this video Mike deviates from the guide temporarily to show an alternate way to quickly produce a Rails resource using the Rails scaffold generator. By using the command `rails g scaffold Post title:string body:text` we get a full equivalent resource with a route, model, controller, views, and generated tests. Once you gain familiarity with how Ruby on Rails works, this will likely be the most frequent way you create resources.
This video covers:
00:00:10 Introduction and review previous episodes
00:02:30 Use the scaffold generator to create the roughly equivalent Post resource inspect terminal output
00:03:59 Review and compare generated scaffold files to existing Article files
00:06:12 Incorporate before_action callback into the existing ArticlesController
00:08:12 Run tests to see current state and fix bad fixture names
00:10:25 Review posts resource in the application
00:11:16 Adapt model and system tests for validations and Turbo confirm
00:15:46 Get tests passing with Turbo and destroy confirmation
00:24:04 Experiment with ArticlesControllerTest and notice. Revert.
00:28:40 Review, commit, and push
This video is CC0 - No rights reserved. (YouTube doesn't allow this option when publishing.) All code is released under the UNLICENSE. Stateless Code denies the concept of "intellectual property". Copying is not stealing.
"Do you mean to tell me that we could have done all the work from the previous ten videos in half an hour?!"
Yes. (But the purpose of the Getting Started with Rails guide is education, so it slowed things down, added them in incrementally, and explained them.)
This is the 11th video in the Getting Started with Rails 7 series. In this video Mike deviates from the guide temporarily to show an alternate way to quickly produce a Rails resource using the Rails scaffold generator. By using the command `rails g scaffold Post title:string body:text` we get a full equivalent resource with a route, model, controller, views, and generated tests. Once you gain familiarity with how Ruby on Rails works, this will likely be the most frequent way you create resources.
This video covers:
00:00:10 Introduction and review previous episodes
00:02:30 Use the scaffold generator to create the roughly equivalent Post resource inspect terminal output
00:03:59 Review and compare generated scaffold files to existing Article files
00:06:12 Incorporate before_action callback into the existing ArticlesController
00:08:12 Run tests to see current state and fix bad fixture names
00:10:25 Review posts resource in the application
00:11:16 Adapt model and system tests for validations and Turbo confirm
00:15:46 Get tests passing with Turbo and destroy confirmation
00:24:04 Experiment with ArticlesControllerTest and notice. Revert.
00:28:40 Review, commit, and push
This video is CC0 - No rights reserved. (YouTube doesn't allow this option when publishing.) All code is released under the UNLICENSE. Stateless Code denies the concept of "intellectual property". Copying is not stealing.
