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diff --git a/guides/source/engines.md b/guides/source/engines.md index b226eac347..1e93a19c84 100644 --- a/guides/source/engines.md +++ b/guides/source/engines.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -**DO NOT READ THIS FILE ON GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED ON http://guides.rubyonrails.org.** +**DO NOT READ THIS FILE ON GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED ON https://guides.rubyonrails.org.** Getting Started with Engines ============================ @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ inside the application, performing tasks such as adding the `app` directory of the engine to the load path for models, mailers, controllers, and views. The `isolate_namespace` method here deserves special notice. This call is -responsible for isolating the controllers, models, routes and other things into +responsible for isolating the controllers, models, routes, and other things into their own namespace, away from similar components inside the application. Without this, there is a possibility that the engine's components could "leak" into the application, causing unwanted disruption, or that important engine @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ within the `Engine` class definition. Without it, classes generated in an engine **may** conflict with an application. What this isolation of the namespace means is that a model generated by a call -to `bin/rails g model`, such as `bin/rails g model article`, won't be called `Article`, but +to `rails g model`, such as `rails g model article`, won't be called `Article`, but instead be namespaced and called `Blorgh::Article`. In addition, the table for the model is namespaced, becoming `blorgh_articles`, rather than simply `articles`. Similar to the model namespacing, a controller called `ArticlesController` becomes @@ -313,13 +313,16 @@ The engine that this guide covers provides submitting articles and commenting functionality and follows a similar thread to the [Getting Started Guide](getting_started.html), with some new twists. +NOTE: For this section, make sure to run the commands in the root of the +`blorgh` engine's directory. + ### Generating an Article Resource The first thing to generate for a blog engine is the `Article` model and related controller. To quickly generate this, you can use the Rails scaffold generator. ```bash -$ bin/rails generate scaffold article title:string text:text +$ rails generate scaffold article title:string text:text ``` This command will output this information: @@ -427,7 +430,7 @@ Finally, the assets for this resource are generated in two files: `app/assets/stylesheets/blorgh/articles.css`. You'll see how to use these a little later. -You can see what the engine has so far by running `bin/rails db:migrate` at the root +You can see what the engine has so far by running `rails db:migrate` at the root of our engine to run the migration generated by the scaffold generator, and then running `rails server` in `test/dummy`. When you open `http://localhost:3000/blorgh/articles` you will see the default scaffold that has @@ -461,7 +464,7 @@ rather than visiting `/articles`. This means that instead of Now that the engine can create new articles, it only makes sense to add commenting functionality as well. To do this, you'll need to generate a comment -model, a comment controller and then modify the articles scaffold to display +model, a comment controller, and then modify the articles scaffold to display comments and allow people to create new ones. From the application root, run the model generator. Tell it to generate a @@ -469,7 +472,7 @@ From the application root, run the model generator. Tell it to generate a and `text` text column. ```bash -$ bin/rails generate model Comment article_id:integer text:text +$ rails generate model Comment article_id:integer text:text ``` This will output the following: @@ -489,7 +492,7 @@ called `Blorgh::Comment`. Now run the migration to create our blorgh_comments table: ```bash -$ bin/rails db:migrate +$ rails db:migrate ``` To show the comments on an article, edit `app/views/blorgh/articles/show.html.erb` and @@ -563,7 +566,7 @@ The route now exists, but the controller that this route goes to does not. To create it, run this command from the application root: ```bash -$ bin/rails g controller comments +$ rails g controller comments ``` This will generate the following things: @@ -695,17 +698,17 @@ pre-defined path which may be customizable. The engine contains migrations for the `blorgh_articles` and `blorgh_comments` table which need to be created in the application's database so that the engine's models can query them correctly. To copy these migrations into the -application run the following command from the `test/dummy` directory of your Rails engine: +application run the following command from the application's root: ```bash -$ bin/rails blorgh:install:migrations +$ rails blorgh:install:migrations ``` If you have multiple engines that need migrations copied over, use `railties:install:migrations` instead: ```bash -$ bin/rails railties:install:migrations +$ rails railties:install:migrations ``` This command, when run for the first time, will copy over all the migrations @@ -723,7 +726,7 @@ timestamp (`[timestamp_2]`) will be the current time plus a second. The reason for this is so that the migrations for the engine are run after any existing migrations in the application. -To run these migrations within the context of the application, simply run `bin/rails +To run these migrations within the context of the application, simply run `rails db:migrate`. When accessing the engine through `http://localhost:3000/blog`, the articles will be empty. This is because the table created inside the application is different from the one created within the engine. Go ahead, play around with the @@ -734,14 +737,14 @@ If you would like to run migrations only from one engine, you can do it by specifying `SCOPE`: ```bash -bin/rails db:migrate SCOPE=blorgh +rails db:migrate SCOPE=blorgh ``` This may be useful if you want to revert engine's migrations before removing it. To revert all migrations from blorgh engine you can run code such as: ```bash -bin/rails db:migrate SCOPE=blorgh VERSION=0 +rails db:migrate SCOPE=blorgh VERSION=0 ``` ### Using a Class Provided by the Application @@ -768,7 +771,7 @@ application: rails g model user name:string ``` -The `bin/rails db:migrate` command needs to be run here to ensure that our +The `rails db:migrate` command needs to be run here to ensure that our application has the `users` table for future use. Also, to keep it simple, the articles form will have a new text field called @@ -828,7 +831,7 @@ of associating the records in the `blorgh_articles` table with the records in th To generate this new column, run this command within the engine: ```bash -$ bin/rails g migration add_author_id_to_blorgh_articles author_id:integer +$ rails g migration add_author_id_to_blorgh_articles author_id:integer ``` NOTE: Due to the migration's name and the column specification after it, Rails @@ -840,7 +843,7 @@ This migration will need to be run on the application. To do that, it must first be copied using this command: ```bash -$ bin/rails blorgh:install:migrations +$ rails blorgh:install:migrations ``` Notice that only _one_ migration was copied over here. This is because the first @@ -855,7 +858,7 @@ Copied migration [timestamp]_add_author_id_to_blorgh_articles.blorgh.rb from blo Run the migration using: ```bash -$ bin/rails db:migrate +$ rails db:migrate ``` Now with all the pieces in place, an action will take place that will associate @@ -921,7 +924,7 @@ engine: mattr_accessor :author_class ``` -This method works like its brothers, `attr_accessor` and `cattr_accessor`, but +This method works like its siblings, `attr_accessor` and `cattr_accessor`, but provides a setter and getter method on the module with the specified name. To use it, it must be referenced using `Blorgh.author_class`. @@ -982,7 +985,7 @@ Blorgh.author_class = "User" WARNING: It's very important here to use the `String` version of the class, rather than the class itself. If you were to use the class, Rails would attempt to load that class and then reference the related table. This could lead to -problems if the table wasn't already existing. Therefore, a `String` should be +problems if the table didn't already exist. Therefore, a `String` should be used and then converted to a class using `constantize` in the engine later on. Go ahead and try to create a new article. You will see that it works exactly in the @@ -998,7 +1001,7 @@ some sort of identifier by which it can be referenced. #### General Engine Configuration Within an engine, there may come a time where you wish to use things such as -initializers, internationalization or other configuration options. The great +initializers, internationalization, or other configuration options. The great news is that these things are entirely possible, because a Rails engine shares much the same functionality as a Rails application. In fact, a Rails application's functionality is actually a superset of what is provided by @@ -1020,11 +1023,11 @@ Testing an engine When an engine is generated, there is a smaller dummy application created inside it at `test/dummy`. This application is used as a mounting point for the engine, to make testing the engine extremely simple. You may extend this application by -generating controllers, models or views from within the directory, and then use +generating controllers, models, or views from within the directory, and then use those to test your engine. The `test` directory should be treated like a typical Rails testing environment, -allowing for unit, functional and integration tests. +allowing for unit, functional, and integration tests. ### Functional Tests @@ -1362,7 +1365,7 @@ need to require `admin.css` or `admin.js`. Only the gem's admin layout needs these assets. It doesn't make sense for the host app to include `"blorgh/admin.css"` in its stylesheets. In this situation, you should explicitly define these assets for precompilation. This tells Sprockets to add -your engine assets when `bin/rails assets:precompile` is triggered. +your engine assets when `rails assets:precompile` is triggered. You can define assets for precompilation in `engine.rb`: @@ -1514,14 +1517,14 @@ To hook into the initialization process of one of the following classes use the ## Configuration hooks -These are the available configuration hooks. They do not hook into any particular framework, instead they run in context of the entire application. +These are the available configuration hooks. They do not hook into any particular framework, but instead they run in context of the entire application. -| Hook | Use Case | -| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -| `before_configuration` | First configurable block to run. Called before any initializers are run. | -| `before_initialize` | Second configurable block to run. Called before frameworks initialize. | -| `before_eager_load` | Third configurable block to run. Does not run if `config.cache_classes` set to false. | -| `after_initialize` | Last configurable block to run. Called after frameworks initialize. | +| Hook | Use Case | +| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| `before_configuration` | First configurable block to run. Called before any initializers are run. | +| `before_initialize` | Second configurable block to run. Called before frameworks initialize. | +| `before_eager_load` | Third configurable block to run. Does not run if `config.eager_load` set to false. | +| `after_initialize` | Last configurable block to run. Called after frameworks initialize. | ### Example |