Taisir Hassan - Shopify Technical Backend Challenge

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Pull Request: Implementing CRUD Functionality and Search Functionality for an Encyclopedia

Demo

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Description

Major Changes:

• Implemented the Article model with title and content attributes.
• Created a controller for articles with index, show, new, edit, create, update, and destroy actions.
• Created views for each of the controller actions.
• Styled all views with Bootstrap for a better user interface.
• Added error handling for form submissions.
• Documented all the code.

Elaboration on Changes Made:

Models

• Added a create method in the Article model to allow article creation.
• Added validations to ensure data integrity.

Controllers

• Created new routes and actions (index, show, new, create, edit, update, destroy) for articles.
• Implemented CRUD actions for articles.
• Added a search action and implemented search functionality to find articles by title or content.
• Implemented error handling and flash messages for a better user experience.

Views

• Created new views (index, show, new, edit) for articles.
• Updated existing views for consistency and user experience, including listing articles and displaying single articles.
• Implemented forms and templates for creating, editing, and viewing articles.

Tests

• Verified that all tests pass successfully.
• Added comments and explanatory notes in the code where necessary to improve code readability.

Documentation

• Added comments and explanatory notes in the code where necessary.