Blog: Blog Content

Mix.install([
  {:jason, "~> 1.4"},
  {:kino, "~> 0.9", override: true},
  {:youtube, github: "brooklinjazz/youtube"},
  {:hidden_cell, github: "brooklinjazz/hidden_cell"}
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Blog: Blog Content

In your Blog project, you’re going to separate each blog posts content field into a separate PostContent resource. PostContent will have a one-to-one relationship with your blog Post resource.

Each PostContent record should store a full_text field and a foreign key to a post record.

classDiagram
  class PostContent {
    full_text: :text
    post_id: :id
  }

Requirements

Ensure you:

• Create a post_content table in a migration.
• Create a PostContent schema.
• Can create a Post with associated PostContent through your existing post form.
• Can update a Post with associated PostContent through your existing post form.
• Display the post content on the blog post show page.

You do not need to remove the existing :content field on the blog post. See the bonus exercise below.

Hint

Post Schema And Migration

You can use the following command to generate the PostContent schema and migration boilerplate.

$ mix phx.gen.schema Blog.PostContent post_content full_text:text post_id:references:posts

Post Form

You can use inputs_for/3 to create the associated post_content field.

PostContent Association

You can associate PostContent with Post using has_one/3 and belongs_to/3.

Creating Associated Post Content

You can use cast_assoc/3 inside of the Post schema’s changeset/2 function to create the associated :post_content.

Updating Associated Post Content

Ensure you preload the :post_content using Repo.preload/3 whenever updating a post.

Bonus: Migrate The :content Field Into PostContent.

Create a migration that will create an associated PostContent record for every existing Post record using their :content field. Then in the same migration, remove the :content field from every post.

This simulates a real-world production system where you would likely need to preserve existing data.

Make sure you also update any places in your codebase using the :content field to avoid errors. For example you likely need to fix your seed files, tests, templates, etc.

Commit Your Progress

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Run git status to ensure there are no undesirable changes. Then run the following in your command line from the curriculum folder to commit your progress.

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "finish Blog: Blog Content exercise"
$ git push

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