Rails Update and Destroy Lab

Learning Goals

• Generate update and destroy routes for one resource

Introduction

In this lab, we'll continue building an API for the plant store! The code for the frontend React application is done; you can find it in the client directory. Your job is to create the Rails API so that the fetch requests on the frontend work successfully.

Instructions

To set up the frontend and backend dependencies, from the root directory, run:

$ npm install --prefix client
$ bundle install
$ rails db:migrate db:seed

To see how the React application and Rails API are interacting, you can run the Rails application in one terminal by running:

$ rails s

Then, open another terminal and run React:

$ npm start --prefix client

Each application will run on its own port on localhost:

• React: http://localhost:4000
• Rails: http://localhost:3000

Deliverables

Routes

Your API should have the following routes as well as the associated controller actions that return the appropriate JSON data:

Update Route

Making a PATCH request to this route with an object in the body should update one plant, and return the updated plant in the response. You should use strong params to handle the update.

PATCH /plants/:id


Headers
-------
Content-Type: application/json


Request Body
------
{
  "is_in_stock": false
}


Response Body
-------
{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Aloe",
  "image": "./images/aloe.jpg",
  "price": 11.50,
  "is_in_stock": false
}

Destroy Route

Making a DELETE request to this route should delete one plant from the database. You should return a response of head :no_content to indicate a successful deletion.

DELETE /plants/:id


Response Body
------
no content