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authorChris Kampmeier <chris@kampers.net>2008-12-03 00:10:00 -0800
committerChris Kampmeier <chris@kampers.net>2008-12-03 00:10:00 -0800
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Update the Action Pack README a bit to use the current API and fix errors
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Action Pack implements these actions as public methods on Action Controllers
and uses Action Views to implement the template rendering. Action Controllers
are then responsible for handling all the actions relating to a certain part
of an application. This grouping usually consists of actions for lists and for
-CRUDs revolving around a single (or a few) model objects. So ContactController
+CRUDs revolving around a single (or a few) model objects. So ContactsController
would be responsible for listing contacts, creating, deleting, and updating
contacts. A WeblogController could be responsible for both posts and comments.
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ A short rundown of the major features:
* Actions grouped in controller as methods instead of separate command objects
and can therefore share helper methods
- BlogController < ActionController::Base
+ CustomersController < ActionController::Base
def show
@customer = find_customer
end
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ A short rundown of the major features:
@customer = find_customer
@customer.attributes = params[:customer]
@customer.save ?
- redirect_to(:action => "display") :
+ redirect_to(:action => "show") :
render(:action => "edit")
end
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ A short rundown of the major features:
Title: <%= post.title %>
<% end %>
- All post titles: <%= @post.collect{ |p| p.title }.join ", " %>
+ All post titles: <%= @posts.collect{ |p| p.title }.join ", " %>
<% unless @person.is_client? %>
Not for clients to see...
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ A short rundown of the major features:
<%= text_field "post", "title", "size" => 30 %>
<%= html_date_select(Date.today) %>
<%= link_to "New post", :controller => "post", :action => "new" %>
- <%= truncate(post.title, 25) %>
+ <%= truncate(post.title, :length => 25) %>
{Learn more}[link:classes/ActionView/Helpers.html]
@@ -200,11 +200,11 @@ A short rundown of the major features:
If Active Record is used as the model, you'll have the database debugging
as well:
- Processing WeblogController#create (for 127.0.0.1 at Sat Jun 19 14:04:23)
- Params: {"controller"=>"weblog", "action"=>"create",
+ Processing PostsController#create (for 127.0.0.1 at Sat Jun 19 14:04:23)
+ Params: {"controller"=>"posts", "action"=>"create",
"post"=>{"title"=>"this is good"} }
SQL (0.000627) INSERT INTO posts (title) VALUES('this is good')
- Redirected to http://test/weblog/display/5
+ Redirected to http://example.com/posts/5
Completed in 0.221764 (4 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.059920 (27%)
You specify a logger through a class method, such as:
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ A short rundown of the major features:
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
def create
post = Post.create(params[:post])
- redirect_to :action => "display", :id => post.id
+ redirect_to :action => "show", :id => post.id
end
end
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ methods:
@posts = Post.find(:all)
end
- def display
+ def show
@post = Post.find(params[:id])
end
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ methods:
def create
@post = Post.create(params[:post])
- redirect_to :action => "display", :id => @post.id
+ redirect_to :action => "show", :id => @post.id
end
end
@@ -346,31 +346,31 @@ request from the web-server (like to be Apache).
And the templates look like this:
- weblog/layout.erb:
+ weblog/layout.html.erb:
<html><body>
<%= yield %>
</body></html>
- weblog/index.erb:
+ weblog/index.html.erb:
<% for post in @posts %>
- <p><%= link_to(post.title, :action => "display", :id => post.id %></p>
+ <p><%= link_to(post.title, :action => "show", :id => post.id) %></p>
<% end %>
- weblog/display.erb:
+ weblog/show.html.erb:
<p>
- <b><%= post.title %></b><br/>
- <b><%= post.content %></b>
+ <b><%= @post.title %></b><br/>
+ <b><%= @post.content %></b>
</p>
- weblog/new.erb:
+ weblog/new.html.erb:
<%= form "post" %>
This simple setup will list all the posts in the system on the index page,
which is called by accessing /weblog/. It uses the form builder for the Active
Record model to make the new screen, which in turn hands everything over to
the create action (that's the default target for the form builder when given a
-new model). After creating the post, it'll redirect to the display page using
-an URL such as /weblog/display/5 (where 5 is the id of the post).
+new model). After creating the post, it'll redirect to the show page using
+an URL such as /weblog/5 (where 5 is the id of the post).
== Examples