ActiveRecord Model Rails Lab

Objectives

1. Create a migration by hand
2. Create a model by hand
3. Build a model instance method

Building a Model

You can find the test suite for this application in the spec/models directory and run them with the command: bundle exec rspec. This lab tests to ensure that your app can create records and that it has an instance method that can be called on the model.

Instructions

• Create a table by hand named students that has the columns: first_name and last_name – this should be accomplished by creating a new database migration
• Create a model for the students' table that inherits from ActiveRecord::Base
• Implement a to_s instance method in the model that will return the concatenated first and last names for students. For example: first_name: "Daenerys", last_name: "Targaryen" => "Daenerys Targaryen"

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