Rails backend for GivingWeb_api setup

Requirments

Ruby on Rails

gem install rails

updates

bundler

gem install bundler

Basics setup part 1 Rails

to setup Rails install do

rails new rails_auth --api -d postgresql

which will setup everything and remove the extras required to have rails as a frontend(i.e. removed assets)

Once your app has been created go into the [Gemfile](rails_auth/Gemfile) and check out line 12, if line 12 looks like > " gem 'sqlite3' " change it to: ```ruby # Use postgresql as the database for Active Record gem 'pg', '~> 0.18' ``` otherwise move onto adding devise for auth and hash out ```ruby gem 'rack-cors', :require => 'rack/cors' ``` and add: ```ruby # devise for auth in rails backend gem 'devise' # Request responders for rails to dry up code gem 'responders' # JSON Web Tokens to provide Auth between front and back end gem 'jwt'

under "gem 'puma', '~> 3.7'"

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finally run bundle in the [rails directory](rails_auth) on terminal
```sh
rails_auth git:(master) bundle

Ok if you have had no errors at this spot then we can move onto the part 2

Basics setup part 2 Devise table creation

Start with running the devise installer

rails g devise:install

then run

rails g devise user

and create a db

createdb rails_auth_development

which will create out user table ready for db:migrate and a db ready for input
BUT! before we do that open up the new migrate file in migrate folder and add on line 4:

t.string :first_name
t.string :last_name

and we're ready to db:migrate files

rails db:migrate

this will setup our table Users inside the db with the added setup of first and last name.

ok next our controller! make a new file in rails_auth/app/controllers called sessions_controller.rd and add this code:

class SessionsController < ApplicationController
  def create
    user = User.where(email: params[:email]).first

    if user&.valid_password?(params[:password])
      render json: user.as_json(only: [:id, :email, :authentication_token]), status: :created
    else###TODO: remove [:id] from 6 when api to react works.
      head(:unauthorized)
    end
  end

  def destroy

  end
end

and secondly we need to setup our routes file, so open [routes](rails_auth/config/routes.rb) and update the code to look like this: ```ruby Rails.application.routes.draw do # devise_for :users resources :sessions, only: [:create, :destroy] # For details on the DSL available within this file, see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html end ```

now open seed.rb and add:

@user = User.new(:email => 'test@example.com', :password => 'password', :password_confirmation => 'password')
@user.save

to the top of the file, and do the following step:

rails db:seed

this will allow us to have a user already already in the db to work with.

Now we have the basics up!

lets test this out!

Start up your rails server with:

rails s

inside your rails app folder

Open up insomnia and put in a 'POST' request to 'http://localhost:3000/sessions', and add the json body of:

{
	"email": "test@example.com", "password": "password"
}

If you get a status of 201(created) then everything is working great! now for the next part!

Setting up User CRUD part 1

current under construction :( have used Notflix example to play with controllers but to no avail