Rails Basics

These are just some notes on doing everything in rails by hand.

Controllers – name file plural_controller.rb

class PluralController < ApplicationController
end

Models - name file singular.rb

class Singular < ActiveRecord::Base
end

Migrations - name file date_create_plural.rb

class CreatePlural < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :plural do |t|
      t.string :name
      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

Mailers - name file app/mailers/singular_mailer.rb

class ApplicantMailer < ActionMailer::Base
end