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Persisting In an Organised Manner Using Database

Database help us store our data in

• sqlite3

• dm-sqlite-adapter

-datamapper

Setting up Gemfile

Our dependencies are becoming more and sometime conflict may arise if using our application require dependencies whose version conflict with what is in our computer to be on the safe side, we create a Gemfile which contains all our project depedencies.Create a Gemfile on the root of our project and update its content like so:

Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'sinatra',            '1.4.8'
gem 'data_mapper',        '1.2.0'
gem 'dm-sqlite-adapter',  '1.2.0'

Update content of config.ru include bundler like so:

config.ru

require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'

Bundler.require
require "./myapp"
run Sinatra::Application

bundler is an application use to install ruby dependecies.For more on bundler

Run bundle install at the root of your application. likes

bundle install

Incase you run into bundler not available issue kindle install it using above from instruction on the above.

setting up the db and our model

Let us our db like so:

myapp.rb

## after requiring modules
configure :development do
    DataMapper.setup(:default, "sqlite3://#{Dir.pwd}/myapp_development.db")
end
class Calculation
  include DataMapper::Resource  
  property :id,     Serial
  property :first_number,      Integer
  property :second_number,      Integer
  property :sum,      Integer  
  property :created_at,   DateTime
  property :update_at, DateTime
end 
DataMapper.finalize
DataMapper.auto_migrate!

##routes
..

let's modify our route /sum to create our calculation results

get '/sum/new' do
    erb:sum // replace this with new i.e erb:new
  end

  post '/sum/create' do # replace post 
    first_number =params[:first_number].strip
    second_number =params[:second_number].strip 
    sum = first_number.to_f + second_number.to_f    
    result = Calculation.create(:first_number => first_number, :second_number => second_number, :sum => sum) 
    id = result.id
    redirect "/sum/show?id=#{id}"
end  

Note the modification of /sum to /sum/new this common convention when render form to create a resource.On replace sum with new also rename sum tempalte to new template. The show(show is use to render only single content in this case only one result that which we have created) /sum/show do not exists yet so let us create it. Redirect is used to mean you requesting for something I don't have it so here in this case /sum/show:id that is the content we will render.The reason for using id it uniquely identifies a record.Modidify content of /calculation_result with like so:

myapp.rb

get '/sum/show:id' do
    @sum = Calculation.find(id)
    erb:show
end

We find our record for the database the display it. Create show.erb template and add content of calculation_results.erb eto it. Now delete calculation_results.erb we do not need it.

Try visiting localhost:9292/sum/new the create a new calculation

Now let us create ability to display all record from the database

Our route for displaying all results was all_results in keeeping with convention let us rename it /sum/index

myapp.rb

##other codes
get `sum/index` do # "/all_results" renamed
    @results = Calculation.all
    erb:index
end
# other codes

We get all existing results from our database and display them.Create and index.erb whose content is like so:

<h1> All Results</h1>
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>First Number</th>
      <th>Second Number</th>
      <th>Sum</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>

  <tbody>
    <% @results.each do |result| %>
      <tr>
        <td><%= result.first_number%></td>
        <td><%= result.second_number %></td>
        <td><%= result.sum %></td>        
      </tr>
    <% end %>
  </tbody>
</table>

Note the modification of get and post /sum to /sum/new and /sum/create this common convention when render form to create a resource.On replace sum with new also rename sum tempalte to new template. The show(show is use to render only single content in this case only one result that which we have created) /sum/show do not exists yet so let us create it. Redirect is used to mean you requesting for something I don't have it so here in this case sum/show with params, that is the content we will render.The reason for using id it uniquely identifies a record.Modidify content of /calculation_result with like so:

myapp.rb

get '/sum/show' do
     id = params[:id]
    @result= Calculation.get(id)
    erb:show
end

We find our record for the database the display it. Rename calculation_results.erb to show.erb . Now delete calculation_results.erb we do not need it.Content of show.erb should be like so.

show.erb

<p>First Number: <%[email protected]_number%></p>
<p>Second Number: <%[email protected]_number%></p>
<p>Sum: <%[email protected]%></p>

Try visiting localhost:9292/sum/new the create a new calculation

Now let us create ability to display all record from the database

Our route for displaying all results was all_results in keeeping with convention let us rename it /sum/index

myapp.rb

##other codes
get `sum/index` do # "/all_results" renamed
    @results = Calculation.all
    erb:index
end
# other codes

We get all existing results from our database and display them.Create and index.erb whose content is like so:

<h1> All Results</h1>
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>First Number</th>
      <th>Second Number</th>
      <th>Sum</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>

  <tbody>
    <% @results.each do |result| %>
      <tr>
        <td><%= result.first_number%></td>
        <td><%= result.second_number %></td>
        <td><%= result.sum %></td>        
      </tr>
    <% end %>
  </tbody>
</table>

It is tiring to display our content via url in show.erb create a link(labelled "back") that if clicked will list display index page(index.erb) and index.rb create a link(labelled "show") which if clicked shows a single result

Now visit localhost:9292/sum/index

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