Rails URL Helpers Lab

Objectives

1. Generate URLs using route helpers

2. Draw routes with implicit and explicit names using :as

3. Draw routes with variables

4. Generate URLs using route helpers that require variables

Instructions

In this lab you will be building out the Student management dashboard for the Flatiron School by starting to integrate the ability to link between pages. Two tests are currently passing, and the rest need implementation code to start passing. In order to complete this lab, you will need to complete the following tasks:

• A user should be able to navigate to /students to view all of the students.

• A user should be able to click the student's name on the index page and be taken to that specific student's show page.

• Create a new boolean attribute called active in the students table. (HINT: You might have to search around for the best way to set a (ahem) default value (should default to false).)

• A user should be able to go to /students/:id/activate to toggle their active attribute between true and false. (This is just the activate route, and not a actual view.)

• Read the failing tests and modify the code until they pass.

Keep in mind

• Make sure the show path is /students/:id, where :id is a route variable.

• Call the Student class instance method to_s on each of the students on the index page so that each student element contains their first and last name.

• On the student index page, test out all three different link_to argument options, e.g.: link_to "post", "/post/#{post.id}", link_to("post", post_path(post.id)), link_to("post", post_path(post)).

Resources

• Reading

• URL Helper Documentation