Popular Gems

• Kaminari
• Ransack
• Railties

bundle add faker  # Add it to only the development and test groups, if you are a stickler for convention

# In db/seeds.rb
50.times do
  MyModel.create! name: Faker::Name.name
end

rails db:migrate && rails db:seed

rails g scaffold MyModel field1:string

Data Types:

• binary
• boolean
• date
• datetime
• decimal
• float
• integer
• primary_key
• string
• text
• time
• timestamp
• references

Example for references:

rails g scaffold Country name:string
rails g scaffold City name:string country:references

To create multiple references to another model (for different attribute fields):

# The other model
rails g Country name

# In the scaffold command
rails g scaffold Staff residing_country:references

# In the migration
t.references :residing_country, null: false, foreign_key: { to_table: :countries }

# In the model
belongs_to :residing_country, class_name: 'Country', foreign_key: 'residing_country_id'

rm storage/development.sqlite db/schema.rb
rails db:drop db:create db:migrate