Processing data

Up until this point, we’ve manually modified data within the database. By manually, I mean all inside the Rails console. However, as our project requirement is to let the users handle the friends entries, we will do so by integrating our model with our controller and our view so that a user can see the friends entries in a friendly interface. We will be creating a CRUD interface. Yes, it sounds ugly, but it’s the acronym software engineers came up with. It stands for CReate Update Delete, which is exactly what we are going to build – an interface to create, update, and delete records.

Setting up the CRUD interface

The first step is to confirm that the data is, in fact, in our database. From our previous chapter, we know that we can call the Rails console for this, so let’s do that by running the following command:

bundle exec rails console

This should change our shell to look like this:

Loading development environment (Rails...