Generating the Product Model
Explore how to generate the Product model from scratch within a Rails API and associate it with the User model using Active Record methods. Learn to define key fields like title, price, and published status, add validations, and set up automatic deletion when a user is removed. This lesson helps you build and test robust product resources linked to users in your API.
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We now have a straightforward implementation of the User model, but the moment of truth has come. We will customize the JSON output and add a second resource: the user’s products.
These are the elements that the user will sell in the application and will be directly linked.
If you are familiar with Rails, you may already know something about this. For those who don’t know, we will associate the User model with the Product model using the has_many and belongs_to methods of Active Record.
In this chapter, we will perform the following actions: ...