Programming Phoenix

Creating Resources

Recall our changes to the router.ex file, when we added the resources "/users" macro to router.ex to build a set of conventional routes. One new route maps posts to "/users" to the UserController.create action. Add a create function to UserController:

ecto/listings/rumbl/web/controllers/user_controller.change2.ex

def create(conn, %{"user" => user_params}) do
  changeset = User.changeset(%User{}, user_params)
  {:ok, user} = Repo.insert(changeset)

  conn
  |> put_flash(:info, "#{user.name} created!")
  |> redirect(to: user_path(conn, :index))
end

This pattern of code should be getting familiar to you by now. We keep piping functions together until the conn has the final result that we want. Each ...