- Create a table using ActiveRecord.
- Use Active Record's querying methods.
In this lab, we'll be working in a TV show domain. We have a TV show model, the Show
class, and a shows
table that you'll create in your database.
You'll be required not only to write a migration that creates a shows
table and gives the Show
class certain attributes, but also to use Active Record's querying methods.
Active Record makes it easy to ask our database for certain information and datasets by providing a bunch of built-in methods for us. For example, we can request the sum of all of the values of a particular column with the #sum
method:
<class name>.sum(:<column_name>)
We can query our database based on certain conditions using the #where
method.
Let's say we have a Song
class and table and each song has a number_of_stars
rating attribute. We could query for songs with more than 3 stars like this:
Song.where("number_of_stars > ?", 3)
Let's look at one more example: Let's say we want to query our database for the lowest value in the number_of_stars
column, i.e., the lowest rating that any song has:
Song.minimum(:number_of_stars)
You'll be writing methods that rely on Active Record methods like #minimum
, #sum
, and #where
to get these tests passing.
Use the following resources to help you find the Active Record query methods that will help you pass these tests:
- Run
mkdir db
and thenmkdir db/migrate
to create themigrate
folder withindb
. Then create a file in thedb/migrate
folder called001_create_shows.rb
. In this file, write the migration code to create ashows
table. The table should havename
,network
,day
, andrating
columns.name
,network
, andday
have a datatype of string, andrating
has a datatype of integer. - Create an
app
folder with amodels
folder within it, and then create a file,show.rb
, inapp/models
. In this file, you will define aShow
class that inherits fromActiveRecord::Base
. - Now we need to create a second migration to add another column to our
shows
table. In thedb/migrate
folder, create another file,002_add_season_to_shows.rb
, and write a migration to add a column,season
, to theshows
table. The datatype of this column is string.
You'll be defining the following methods:
#highest_rating
: this method should return the highest value in the ratings column. hint: if there is a#minimum
Active Record method, might there be a#maximum
method?#most_popular_show
: this method should return the show with the highest rating. hint: use the#highest_rating
method as a helper method.#lowest_rating
: returns the lowest value in the ratings column.#least_popular_show
: returns the show with the lowest rating.#ratings_sum
: returns the sum of all of the ratings.#popular_shows
: returns an array of all of the shows that have a rating greater than5
. hint: use the#where
Active Record method.#shows_by_alphabetical_order
: returns an array of all of the shows sorted by alphabetical order according to their names. hint: use the#order
Active Record method.
PHRG Objectives