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[#]: collector: (lujun9972)
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[#]: subject: (Day 2: Rails associations & dragging divs around)
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[#]: via: (https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/11/10/day-2--rails-associations---dragging-divs-around/)
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[#]: author: (Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/)
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Day 2: Rails associations & dragging divs around
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Hello! Today was day 2 of building my toy project. Here are a few more notes on things that have been fun about Rails!
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### the goal: make a refrigerator poetry forum
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I wanted to make kind of a boring standard website to learn Rails, and that other people could interact with. Like a forum! But of course if people can actually type on a website that creates all kinds of problems (what if they’re spammers? or just mean?).
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The first idea I came up with that would let people interact with the website but not actually be able to type things into it was a refrigerator poetry forum where you can write poems given only a fixed set of words.
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So, that’s the plan!
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My goal with this project is to find out if I want to use Rails for other small web projects (instead of what I usually do, which is use something more basic like Flask, or give up on having a backend at all and write everything in Javascript).
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### how do you drag the words around? jQuery UI draggable!
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I wanted people to be able to drag the words around, but I didn’t feel like writing a lot of Javascript. It turns out that this is SUPER easy – there’s a jQuery library to do it called “draggable”!
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At first the dragging didn’t work on mobile, but there’s a hack to make jQuery UI work on mobile called [jQuery UI touch punch][1]. Here’s what it looks like (you can view source if you’re interested in seeing how it works, there’s very little code).
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banana forest cake is
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### a fun Rails feature: “associations”
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I’ve never used a relational ORM before, and one thing I was excited about with Rails was to see what using Active Record is like! Today I learned about one of Rails’ ORM features: [associations][2]. Here’s what that’s about if you know absolutely nothing about ORMs like me.
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In my forum, I have:
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* users
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* topics (I was going to call this “threads” but apparently that’s a reserved word in Rails so they’re called “topics” for now)
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* posts
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When displaying a post, I need to show the username of the user who created the post. So I thought I might need to write some code to load the posts and load the user for each post like this: (in Rails, `Post.where` and `User.find` will run SQL statements and turn the results into Ruby objects)
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```
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@posts = Post.where(topic_id: id)
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@posts.each do |post|
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user = User.find(post.user_id)
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post.user = user
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end
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```
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This is no good though – it’s doing a separate SQL query for every post! I knew there was a better way, and I found out that it’s called [Associations][2]. That link is to the guide from <https://guides.rubyonrails.org>, which has treated me well so far.
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Basically all I needed to do was:
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1. Add a `has_many :posts` line to the User model
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2. Add a `belongs_to :user` line to the Post model
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3. Rails now knows how to join these two tables even though I didn’t tell it what columns to join on! I think this is because I named the `user_id` column in the `posts` table according to the convention it expects.
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4. Do the exact same thing for `User` and `Topic` (a topic also `has_many :posts`)
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And then my code to load every post along with its associated user becomes just one line! Here’s the line:
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```
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@posts = @topic.posts.order(created_at: :asc).preload(:user)
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```
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More importantly than it being just one line, instead of doing a separate query to get the user for each post, it gets all the users in 1 query. Apparently there are a bunch of [different ways][3] to do similar things in Rails (preload, eager load, joins, and includes?). I don’t know what all those are yet but maybe I’ll learn that later.
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### a fun Rails feature: scaffolding!
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Rails has this command line tool called `rails` and it does a lot of code generation. For example, I wanted to add a Topic model / controller. Instead of having to go figure out where to add all the code, I could just run:
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```
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rails generate scaffold Topic title:text
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```
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and it generated a bunch of code, so that I already had basic endpoints to create / edit / delete Topics. For example, here’s my [topic controller right now][4], most of which I did not write (I only wrote the highlighted 3 lines). I’ll probably delete a lot of it, but it feels kinda nice to have a starting point where I can expand on the parts I want and delete the parts I don’t want.
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### database migrations!
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The `rails` tool can also generate database migrations! For example, I decided I wanted to remove the `title` field from posts.
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Here’s what I had to do:
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rails generate migration RemoveTitleFromPosts title:string
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rails db:migrate
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```
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That’s it – just run a couple of command line incantations! I ran a few of these migrations as I changed my mind about what I wanted my database schema to be and it’s been pretty straightforward so far – it feels pretty magical.
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It got a tiny bit more interesting when I tried to add a `not null` constraint to a column where some of the fields in that column were null – the migration failed. But I could just fix the offending records and easily rerun the migration.
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### that’s all for today!
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tomorrow maybe I’ll put it on the internet if I make more progress.
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via: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/11/10/day-2--rails-associations---dragging-divs-around/
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作者：[Julia Evans][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://jvns.ca/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://github.com/furf/jquery-ui-touch-punch
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[2]: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html
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[3]: https://blog.bigbinary.com/2013/07/01/preload-vs-eager-load-vs-joins-vs-includes.html
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[4]: https://github.com/jvns/refrigerator-forum/blob/776b3227cfd7004cb1efb00ec7e3f82a511cbdc4/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb#L13-L15
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