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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

Data

id	actor_id	movie_id	name
697	439	49	Queenan
698	630	49	Mr. French
699	631	49	Madolyn
700	632	49	Trooper Brown
701	633	49	Ellerby
702	634	49	Cousin Sean
703	635	49	Trooper Barrigan
704	636	49	Fitzy (as David Patrick O'H...

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>