Create article class, add and migrate db, add table with date, author…

… and content columns

app/models/article.rb

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+#based off of the structure of the unit test article_test.rb,
+#I'm creating an article class within the app/models directory
+#that inherits from ActiveRecord::Base
+#This is the class that will be used to create new articles
+#in the database
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
+  #Next, I need to add search functionality to this Article class. We can do this by using a method.
+  def self.search(query)
+    where("title LIKE ? OR content LIKE ?", "%#{query}%", "%#{query}%")
+  end
+end

db/migrate/20240128165415_create_articles.rb

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+#creating a table in the database called create articles
+class CreateArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration[6.0]
+  def change
+    create_table :articles do |t|
+      t.string :title
+      t.text :body
+      t.timestamps
+    end
+  end
+end

db/migrate/20240128170026_add_content_to_articles.rb

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+#Adding in the content column to the articles table
+class AddContentToArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.1]
+  def change
+    add_column :articles, :content, :text
+  end
+end

db/migrate/20240128170211_add_author_to_articles.rb

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+#adding in author column to articles table
+class AddAuthorToArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.1]
+  def change
+    add_column :articles, :author, :string
+  end
+end

db/migrate/20240128170422_add_date_to_articles.rb

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+#adding in date column to articles table
+class AddDateToArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.1]
+  def change
+    add_column :articles, :date, :datetime
+  end
+end