Generating models using Rails

Models are abstractions of objects we might find in everyday life. Whether they are people, books, or cars, a model serves as a representation of those objects on the database. And just like controllers, Rails comes with generators that help us create models in a very easy and intuitive way. But first, let’s set up our environment. You can either start where we left off in the previous chapter, or download the example code for this chapter. If you haven’t yet done so, open a terminal and type the following git command:

git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/From-PHP-to-Ruby-on-Rails.git

If you have already done so, then just navigate to the chapter08 folder within your project by running the following command:

cd From-PHP-to-Ruby-on-Rails/chapter08/rails5_models/

Again, let’s install our dependencies with the following command:

bundle install

And to confirm our setup was done correctly, let’s run the following...