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MovieReviewSite Directions

1. Open a command window.
    
2. Navigate to your folder for rails applications.
    
3. Create a new rails project named MovieReviewSite:
   > rails new MovieReviewSite
    
4. Navigate to the MovieReviewSite folder.
    
5. Create the project using scaffolding:
   > rails generate scaffold MovieReview reviewer:string review:text movie_release_date:date rating:float
    
6. Build the database table:
   > rake db:migrate
    
7. Start the Rails server:
   > rails s
    
8. In a browser navigate to this URL:
   > http://localhost:3000/movie_reviews
    
9. Enhance your MovieReviewSite project by making these changes to the project:
    
   
   1. Change the years displayed in the movie_release_date field:   In the file app/views/movie_reviews/_form.html.erb, line 23, replace the line
      

      <%= f.date_select :movie_release_date %>
      

      by
      

      <%= f.date_select :movie_release_date,
          :start_year => 1996, :end_year => 2006 %>
      

   2. Add the following validations:   Add these lines of code to the file app/models/movie_reviews.rb:
      

      validates_presence_of :reviewer
      
      validates_numericality_of :rating,
          :greater_than_or_equal_to 0.0,
          :less_than_or_equal_to 5.0
      

   3. Add a heading to the show view:   Add the following header to the file app/views/movie_reviews/show.html.erb:
      

      <h1>Movie Review Information</h1>
      

   4. Change the heading on the index view:   Change this code in the file app/views/movie_reviews/index.html.erb:
      

      <h1>Listing movie_reviews>
      

      to
      

      <h1>Movie Review Listings</h2>
      

   5. Change the table headings on the index view:   Change the table headings in the th tags to be more descriptive and user friendly.
       
   6. Change the labels on the form:   Change the labels in the form file app/views/movie_reviews/_form.html.erb to make them more user friendly. For example, in line 15, change the line
      

      <%= f.text_field :reviewer %>
      

      to
      

      <%= Reviewer Name %>