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| Now we are sitting in our nice new Rails project's root directory, we can start building our application. The most important thing in any database driven application like this one, is the data model. It specifies what data our application interacts with, and //how// we interact with it. | Now we are sitting in our nice new Rails project's root directory, we can start building our application. The most important thing in any database driven application like this one, is the data model. It specifies what data our application interacts with, and //how// we interact with it. |
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| In this application, we only have one data type, that is a 'Link', this link must have a name, some descriptive information and the target URI. Normally at this stage you'd have to roll-up your sleaves and write one of those fugly SQL statements to create your table. Not us, Rails has cunningly abstracted database interaction for us, so no more SQL! In order to create our mode we must run this command: | In this application, we only have one data type, that is a 'Link', this link must have a name, some descriptive information and the target URI. Normally at this stage you'd have to roll-up your sleeves and write one of those fugly SQL statements to create your table. Not us, Rails has cunningly abstracted database interaction for us, so no more SQL! In order to create our mode we must run this command: |
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