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Using Data in Stimulus

Learn to use data with Stimulus in this lesson.

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With async, await, and fetch in our toolbox, we can get our Stimulus controller to contact the server directly to get the information about which concerts are sold out.

Sold-out concerts controller

On the Rails side, I’d like to set this up as its own route by adding a new singular resource to the routes.rb file:

Ruby
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#---
Rails.application.routes.draw do 
  resource :schedule
  resources :ticket_orders
  resources :tickets
  resources :gigs
  resources :concerts
  resources :bands
  resources :venues
  resource :sold_out_concerts, only: :show 
  devise_for :users
  
  root to: "schedules#show"
end

This lets us put the API code in a new controller, which is good both from a conceptual standpoint—it’s a completely different kind of request—and from a practical standpoint—as its own route, it might be easier to separate into a designated server later on.

The controller is similar to what were were sending earlier in this chapter via Gon:

Ruby
#---
# Excerpted from "Modern Front-End Development for Rails",
# published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
# Copyrights apply to this code. It may not be used to create training material,
# courses, books, articles, and the like. Contact us if you are in doubt.
# We make no guarantees that this code is fit for any purpose.
# Visit http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/nrclient for more book information.
#---
class SoldOutConcertsController < ApplicationController
  def show
    concerts = Concert.includes(:venue, gigs: :band).all
    sold_out_concert_ids = concerts.select(&:sold_out?).map(&:id)
    render(json: {sold_out_concert_ids: sold_out_concert_ids})
  end
end

We’re returning a JSON file to be parsed on ...