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Great! You created a new Rails app named MessengerApp.

Looking at this diagram of the request/response cycle, we need four parts to build a Rails app - a model, a route, a controller, and a view.

Let’s start here by creating a model.

Instructions

1.

In the terminal, generate a new model named Message 

rails generate model Message
2.

Open the migration file in db/migrate/ for the messages table. The name of the migration file starts with the timestamp of when it was created. Inside the change method, add this line as line 4: 

t.text :content
3.

Then in the terminal, run 

bundle exec rake db:migrate
4.

Finally, run 

bundle exec rake db:seed

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