Imagine you've just landed your first job as a Rails developer and you're handed a list of user stories that you're supposed to implement.

• As a user, I should have a database full of authors and books.
• As a user, I should be able to view a list of all the authors and books.
• As a user, I should be able to click on each author or book and see a page with more information about the book or author.
• As a user, I should be able to edit each book.
• As a user, I should be able to update each book.
• As a user, I should be able to delete a book.

Yikes. Sounds like a lot of work. But don't worry -- we'll tackle it together.

In a future lesson, we can cover how to associate a new author with a book, but we'll punt on that for now. You can imagine we'd also need to be able to edit an author and add genres to each book.

Books have many authors. Authors have many books.

For later: Books belong to a genre. Genres have many books.

1. Clone down the master branch, which contains starter code. *If you get stuck at any point, you can check out a different branch (phase-2, phase-3, phase-4). *We'll be building up to the final branch.

2. bundle install

3. rake db:migrate

4. Write the code.