Merge docrails:

commit e6afd8b2736364322b673bbdcca3e9b38b6d3da0
Author: Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com>
Date:   Thu May 8 23:49:36 2008 +0200

    Overall documentation improvement and markup corrections. Zillion changes.

commit 2fead68b3192332eee27945ed95a94a64ca73f70
Author: Austin Putman <austin@emmanuel.local>
Date:   Wed May 7 19:35:46 2008 -0700

    Documented class methods on ActionController::Routing.  These are dangerous, and mostly used for testing.

commit f5b84182dbc39bea79c8ee319c688d00fa99f9d1
Author: Teflon Ted <github@rudiment.net>
Date:   Wed May 7 16:08:49 2008 -0400

    Added explanation about errant inflections not being patched in the future in order to avoid breaking legacy applications.

commit 370f4f51722cec49ace17093d29e9ce9e8f15cfb
Author: Sunny Ripert <negatif@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed May 7 14:00:59 2008 +0200

    Applied list conventions in AR::Base

commit 5bd18429f09d44e75191bec42a6db04bd33f3030
Author: Sunny Ripert <negatif@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed May 7 13:53:35 2008 +0200

    Renamed Options list to Attributes list whenever they weren't option hashes in AR::Base

commit d912bd5672316454457ae83f6e9dda5197beeb6f
Author: Yaroslav Markin <yaroslav@markin.net>
Date:   Wed May 7 13:50:28 2008 +0400

    Add a filter_parameter_logging usage hint to generated ApplicationController.
    This may help to remind the developer to filter sensitive information from application logs.
    Closes #11578

commit b243de0db3c2605121e055079854af5090d06374
Author: Jack Danger Canty <git@6brand.com>
Date:   Tue May 6 23:39:47 2008 -0700

    doc: disambiguating an example ActiveRecord class

commit f81d771f0657ae8375b84a77a059812cce5d6fd9
Author: Jack Danger Canty <git@6brand.com>
Date:   Tue May 6 23:35:05 2008 -0700

    doc: ActiveRecord::Reflection::AssociationReflection#through_reflection

    Added documentation demonstrating the use of #through_reflection for
    finding intervening reflection objects for HasManyThrough
    and HasOneThrough.

commit ae6b46f00b5b8b2939c6b37ce3329c83de7e71db
Author: Cheah Chu Yeow <chuyeow@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed May 7 13:47:41 2008 +0800

    Document AttributeAssignmentError and MultiparameterAssignmentErrors.

commit 8f463550b597db2156b67733f31aed13487fbc3a
Author: John Barnette <jbarnette@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue May 6 22:46:44 2008 -0700

    Killing/fixing a bunch of outdated language in the AR README.

commit aca44bcd92ef783abdf484b58abdde6786db0f89
Author: Cheah Chu Yeow <chuyeow@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed May 7 13:34:52 2008 +0800

    Make a note about ActiveResource::Timeouterror being raised when ARes calls timeout.

commit 284a930a93fbee16e25d06392779dbf2f03e9e12
Author: Jonathan Dance <jd@wuputah.com>
Date:   Tue May 6 14:58:26 2008 -0400

    improvements to the page caching docs

commit 9482da621390c874da7c921c8bd6230caae7035a
Author: Sunny Ripert <negatif@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon May 5 18:13:40 2008 +0200

    validates_numericality_of() "integer" option really is "only_integer"

commit e9afd6790a8f530528f6597a7f59bb283be754f6
Author: Sunny Ripert <negatif@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon May 5 12:11:59 2008 +0200

    Harmonized hash notation in AR::Base

commit 67ebf14a91ffd970b582be4ff2991d691a9cf3e1
Author: Sunny Ripert <negatif@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon May 5 12:06:19 2008 +0200

    Turned options into rdoc-lists in AR::Base

commit 0ec7c0a41d889d4e5382b9dff72f1aaba89bf297
Author: Marshall Huss <mwhuss@Macbook.local>
Date:   Sun May 4 23:21:33 2008 -0400

    Added information of how to set element_name in the case the user has a name confliction with an existing model

Signed-off-by: Pratik Naik <pratiknaik@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/pages.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/pages.rb
index 7aa6ce154b..a70ed72f03 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/pages.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/pages.rb
@@ -4,23 +4,24 @@ require 'uri'
 module ActionController #:nodoc:
   module Caching
     # Page caching is an approach to caching where the entire action output of is stored as a HTML file that the web server
-    # can serve without going through the Action Pack. This can be as much as 100 times faster than going through the process of dynamically
-    # generating the content. Unfortunately, this incredible speed-up is only available to stateless pages where all visitors
-    # are treated the same. Content management systems -- including weblogs and wikis -- have many pages that are a great fit
-    # for this approach, but account-based systems where people log in and manipulate their own data are often less likely candidates.
+    # can serve without going through Action Pack. This is the fastest way to cache your content as opposed to going dynamically
+    # through the process of generating the content. Unfortunately, this incredible speed-up is only available to stateless pages
+    # where all visitors are treated the same. Content management systems -- including weblogs and wikis -- have many pages that are
+    # a great fit for this approach, but account-based systems where people log in and manipulate their own data are often less
+    # likely candidates.
     #
-    # Specifying which actions to cache is done through the <tt>caches</tt> class method:
+    # Specifying which actions to cache is done through the <tt>caches_page</tt> class method:
     #
     #   class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
     #     caches_page :show, :new
     #   end
     #
-    # This will generate cache files such as weblog/show/5 and weblog/new, which match the URLs used to trigger the dynamic
-    # generation. This is how the web server is able pick up a cache file when it exists and otherwise let the request pass on to
-    # the Action Pack to generate it.
+    # This will generate cache files such as <tt>weblog/show/5.html</tt> and <tt>weblog/new.html</tt>,
+    # which match the URLs used to trigger the dynamic generation. This is how the web server is able
+    # pick up a cache file when it exists and otherwise let the request pass on to Action Pack to generate it.
     #
     # Expiration of the cache is handled by deleting the cached file, which results in a lazy regeneration approach where the cache
-    # is not restored before another hit is made against it. The API for doing so mimics the options from url_for and friends:
+    # is not restored before another hit is made against it. The API for doing so mimics the options from +url_for+ and friends:
     #
     #   class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
     #     def update
@@ -35,13 +36,17 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
     #
     # == Setting the cache directory
     #
-    # The cache directory should be the document root for the web server and is set using Base.page_cache_directory = "/document/root".
-    # For Rails, this directory has already been set to Rails.public_path (which is usually set to RAILS_ROOT + "/public").
+    # The cache directory should be the document root for the web server and is set using <tt>Base.page_cache_directory = "/document/root"</tt>.
+    # For Rails, this directory has already been set to Rails.public_path (which is usually set to <tt>RAILS_ROOT + "/public"</tt>). Changing
+    # this setting can be useful to avoid naming conflicts with files in <tt>public/</tt>, but doing so will likely require configuring your
+    # web server to look in the new location for cached files.
     #
     # == Setting the cache extension
     #
-    # By default, the cache extension is .html, which makes it easy for the cached files to be picked up by the web server. If you want
-    # something else, like .php or .shtml, just set Base.page_cache_extension.
+    # Most Rails requests do not have an extension, such as <tt>/weblog/new</tt>. In these cases, the page caching mechanism will add one in
+    # order to make it easy for the cached files to be picked up properly by the web server. By default, this cache extension is <tt>.html</tt>.
+    # If you want something else, like <tt>.php</tt> or <tt>.shtml</tt>, just set Base.page_cache_extension. In cases where a request already has an
+    # extension, such as <tt>.xml</tt> or <tt>.rss</tt>, page caching will not add an extension. This allows it to work well with RESTful apps.
     module Pages
       def self.included(base) #:nodoc:
         base.extend(ClassMethods)