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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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