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<h1>Bookstore Models and Data</h1>
  <h3>for the <em>Active Record Querying Interface</em> Rails Guide</h3>

<p class="lead">I created this to help people run and understand the examples in
  <%= extern_link "the Rails Guide.", ar_querying_guide_url %></p>

<p><strong>The goal is to present the models with just enough data so the examples can be
  run and explored.</strong></p>

<p>I want people to have a chance to work with the "Bookstore models" (Author, Books,
  Customer, Order, Review, Supplier)
  used in the  <%=  extern_link "Rails Guide: ActiveRecord Querying Interface.", ar_querying_guide_url %>
  I want to save people --
  especially <em>novices</em> who are coming up many learning curves at once -- the time and effort
  needed to figure out exactly how to define and scaffold the models used in the
  examples.</p>

<p><strong>This is a very simple, bare-bones Rails application.
  Clone this repo, seed it with data, and start working with the
  examples.</strong></p>

<ul>
  <li>Use the <code>rails console</code> to run the queries given in the examples in the
    guide.</li>
  <li>Run <code>rails server</code> to the see the data in on web pages. (These use typical scaffold-ed views. I did a tiny bit of formatting where helpful.)</li>
  <li>Run <code>bin/rails db:seed</code> to reload the data. (This will delete all the data and reload it with data from CSV files.)</li>
</ul>


<p>This is <em>not</em> a complete or efficient Rails application.
  Only very minimal layout (view) work was done.
  (In a more realistic Rails application, lots of DRYing up would be done; more gems would
  be used; I18n would be used, etc. Many of the models have methods and scopes that are there only to illustrate concepts or code.  They wouldn't necessarily be designed like that in a real Rails application.)</p>
<p>This is meant just as a starting point.</p>

<p>Is this helpful? How could it be made <em>more</em> helpful? Please post comments and suggestions to the <%= extern_link "Github repo issues queue.", "https://github.com/weedySeaDragon/rails-guides-bookstore-models" %></p>

<p><span class="shoutout">Shoutout:</span> This uses CSS and some basics from Chris Oliver's <em>Jumpstart template.</em>
  <%= extern_link "You can grab the code yourself and watch his video on how to use it.",
  "https://gorails.com/episodes/rails-application-templates" %></p>