Library Programming Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails Adding State
Adding State

Adding State

It is important to be able to respond to different events in our friendship model. For example, when a user sends a friend request to another user, we want the requestee to get an email. We're going to use something called a state machine to manage this.

6 videos • 5 quizzes • 0 code challenges

Extra Credit

Try converting the state machine to use an integer instead of a string for the state field. This is going to involve creating a migration as well as significantly modifying your code.

Logo-footer

Our mission is to bring affordable Technology education to people everywhere, in order to help them achieve their dreams and change the world.

© 2013 Treehouse Island, Inc.