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🕵️‍♀️ Task

Select all records from the movies table.

movies

id (integer)
title (string)
year (integer)
duration (integer)
description (text)
image (string)
director_id (integer)

directors

id (integer)
name (string)
dob (date)
bio (text)
image (string)

actors

id (integer)
name (string)
dob (date)
bio (text)
image (string)

characters

id (integer)
actor_id (integer)
movie_id (integer)
name (string)

📖Method

The all method returns an ActiveRecord::Relation from the designated Class.

An ActiveRecord::Relation is an object that contains a list of rows/records from the database table that is connected to the Class that is calling the method.

A table can be referenced by it’s associated model. A “model” is a Ruby Class that inherits from ActiveRecord::Base.

Data

id	title	year	duration	description	image	director_id

Data

id	name	dob	bio	image

Data

id	name	dob	bio	image
633	Alec Baldwin	1958-04-03	Raven-haired, suavely hands...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
634	Kevin Corrigan	1969-03-27	A native of the Bronx, New ...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
635	James Badge Dale	1978-05-01		http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
636	David O'Hara	1965-07-09	David O'Hara was born in Gl...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
637	Robert Wahlberg	1967-12-18		http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
638	Kristen Dalton	1966-02-14		http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
639	Ellen Widmann	1894-12-15
640	Inge Landgut	1922-11-23

Data

id	actor_id	movie_id	name
633	570	45	Jedediah Leland
634	571	45	Susan Alexander Kane
635	572	45	Mary Kane
636	573	45	Emily Monroe Norton Kane
637	574	45	James W. Gettys
638	575	45	Herbert Carter
639	576	45	Mr. Bernstein
640	577	45	Jerry Thompson

Examples

Select all the records from the customers table.

Customer.all
=> #<Customer::ActiveRecord_Relation:0x00007fa4341e1ee8>

Select all the records from the products table.

Product.all
=> #<Product::ActiveRecord_Relation:0x00007fa4341e1ee8>