Agile Web Development with Rails 8

We cover:

• Linking tables with foreign keys
• Using belongs_to, has_many, and :through
• Creating forms based on models (form_with)
• Linking forms, models, and views

Chapter 12Task G: Check Out!

Let’s take stock. So far, we’ve put together a basic product administration system, we’ve implemented a catalog, and we have a pretty spiffy-looking shopping cart. So now we need to let the buyer actually purchase the contents of that cart. Let’s implement the checkout function.

We’re not going to go overboard here. For now, all we’ll do is capture the customer’s contact information and payment details. Using these, we’ll construct an order in the database. Along the way, we’ll be looking a bit more at models, validation, and form handling.