Cara/Brandy/Jamila Octos C9 #15
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| def show | ||
| @customer = Customer.find_by(id: cust_params[:id]) | ||
| if @customer.nil? | ||
| render json: { |
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While this works, you don't typically use strong params for URL parameters.
| def create | ||
| @movie = Movie.new(movie_params) | ||
| @movie.save! | ||
| render :create, status: :ok |
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Using bang (!) methods works great for the console or scripts like the seed file, but in your actual controller actions you should be calling the non-bang version and checking the result. As-is, this will produce an exception rather than a helpful error message, which is not a good user experience.
Something like this would be more appropriate:
@movie = Movie.new(movie_params)
if @movie.save
render :create, status: :ok
else
render json: { errors: @movie.errors.messages }, status: :bad_request
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| render json: { | ||
| errors: { | ||
| id: ["No movie with ID #{movie_params[:id]}"] |
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This is a good example of well-done error handling.
| customer_id = check_params[:customer_id] | ||
| movie_id = check_params[:movie_id] | ||
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| find_customer_and_movie(customer_id, movie_id) |
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I like the idea of moving the shared logic to find the customer and the movie into a helper method. Why not take it a step further and make it a controller filter?
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| if @rental.save | ||
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| Rental.process_checkout(@customer, @movie) |
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This dance of checking the dependencies, creating the rentals, and then updating the dependent models is pretty complicated - it might make sense to encapsulate the whole thing in a model method. One thing that might help is using a transaction - go look this up!
| def self.check_dependencies(customer, movie) | ||
| if customer.nil? | ||
| return { | ||
| customer_id: ["No such customer"] |
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Since the customer and movie are about to be associated with an instance of Rental, it might make sense to make this an instance method.
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| it "Creates a new movie" do | ||
| # this is taking the count before and after | ||
| before_count = Movie.count |
| describe Rental do | ||
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| describe "relations" do | ||
| it "must respond to customer" do |
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You've done such a good job of encapsulating your logic in the model! One of the big advantages of that is that you can test the logic in isolation here, but you're not doing that.
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