Week 4 Lab - Rails Dynamic Pages

Goals:

• Able to create a rails app
• Style the rails app using the asset pipeline
• Use the Router (config/routes) to have a dynamic set of pages
• Pass data from the controller to the views to render

Requirements:

1. Craft a Rails app that shows your Surf and Paddle (can expand from day 18)
2. Make the pages dynamic, where:
   • The root page shows the latest post
   • The images at the bottom of the page link link to that post
   • When viewing that post (URL will be /posts/:name) it shows that post

posts should be something like this:

@posts = []
@posts << Post.new("waffles", "waffles.jpg", "waffles are the best...")
@posts << Post.new("pancakes", "pancakes.jpg", "pancakes are the best...")
@posts << Post.new("bacons", "bacon.jpg", "bacon is the best...")

Notes:

• To find an element in your @posts array, use @posts.find {|p| p.permalink == params[:permalink]} or similar
• There is no database in this lab, but we will have databases next week.

Nightmare Mode

1. Add a list of the top 20 most populated cities in the world.
2. When you click on the each city, it should go to /houston/weather
3. On the weather page, you should connect to a weather service API (in ruby) and display the most current weather information for that city. (humidity, rain probability, and temperature)
4. On the weather page, display a high res photo of that city over the entirety of the screen (cover).