Rails Code Challenge

It's time to put our Rails know-how to the test. HQ has been looking a little drab recently, and our execs have made an important decision to liven it up. We are tasked with distributing house plants to HQ!

Objectives

• MVC
• REST
• Request/Response Cycle
• Form/Form Helpers
• ActiveRecord
• Validations

Setup

Before you begin, fork and clone this repo, run bundle install and rake db:migrate to get started.

The Domain

Everyone is so busy in BT! But the new house plant initiative at Power is a BIG DEAL. Marketing Communications is preparing a Power house plant logo, and there has been talks of an upcoming house plant block party amongst the Special Events Coordinators.

We need a way to keep track of which plants go into each office space. It looks like another Nitro Developer has already started building our application. We have models for HousePlant and Room. But we need a way to association plants with rooms.

We have several plants and each room could potentially house many plants. Plants only live in one room.

Instructions / Deliverables

Read through the instructions to get a sense of the scope of this code challenge, and then tackle them one by one.

1. Create the associations between models. You will have to alter the current schema to get your code working. Once you've set up your relationships properly, you will be able to run rake db:seed without errors, and confirm in a rails console that the house plants and rooms have been created with the proper relations.

2. On the plants index page, a plant's plant_type should link to its show page.

3. The plant show page should include the plant's type, its height in inches (ex: '21 inches'), and its room. The room should link to the room's show page.

4. On the room index page, a room's name should link to its show page.

5. The room show page should have its name, occupancy, and display all of the plant_types in it.

6. One needs to be able to create a new house plant in the app. A new plant requires a plant_type, a height, and the room it is to be placed inside.

7. A plant must have a height and that height must be greater_than_or_equal_to 1 inch tall.

Submission

Do not push your changes up to Github. When you finish:

1. If you haven't already, create a custom branch with git checkout -b custom_branch.
2. git add and git commit your changes.
3. From you custom branch, run git format-patch master --stdout > your_name.patch, replacing your_name with your first and last name.
4. Send the patch file to your instructor on Connect before the specified time. Remember, you can use open . to launch a Finder window from your current directory, and then drag your file into Connect.