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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index eae37f648d..65fdd7ca0d 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ current version of Ruby installed: ```bash $ ruby -v -ruby 2.2.2p95 +ruby 2.3.1p112 ``` TIP: A number of tools exist to help you quickly install Ruby and Ruby @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ of the files and folders that Rails created by default: | File/Folder | Purpose | | ----------- | ------- | -|app/|Contains the controllers, models, views, helpers, mailers and assets for your application. You'll focus on this folder for the remainder of this guide.| +|app/|Contains the controllers, models, views, helpers, mailers, channels, jobs and assets for your application. You'll focus on this folder for the remainder of this guide.| |bin/|Contains the rails script that starts your app and can contain other scripts you use to setup, update, deploy or run your application.| |config/|Configure your application's routes, database, and more. This is covered in more detail in [Configuring Rails Applications](configuring.html).| |config.ru|Rack configuration for Rack based servers used to start the application.| @@ -223,8 +223,7 @@ the server. The "Welcome aboard" page is the _smoke test_ for a new Rails application: it makes sure that you have your software configured correctly enough to serve a -page. You can also click on the _About your application's environment_ link to -see a summary of your application's environment. +page. ### Say "Hello", Rails @@ -245,11 +244,11 @@ Ruby) which is processed by the request cycle in Rails before being sent to the user. To create a new controller, you will need to run the "controller" generator and -tell it you want a controller called "welcome" with an action called "index", +tell it you want a controller called "Welcome" with an action called "index", just like this: ```bash -$ bin/rails generate controller welcome index +$ bin/rails generate controller Welcome index ``` Rails will create several files and a route for you. @@ -264,6 +263,7 @@ invoke test_unit create test/controllers/welcome_controller_test.rb invoke helper create app/helpers/welcome_helper.rb +invoke test_unit invoke assets invoke coffee create app/assets/javascripts/welcome.coffee @@ -298,33 +298,37 @@ Open the file `config/routes.rb` in your editor. Rails.application.routes.draw do get 'welcome/index' - # The priority is based upon order of creation: - # first created -> highest priority. - # See how all your routes lay out with "bin/rails routes". - # - # You can have the root of your site routed with "root" - # root 'welcome#index' - # - # ... + # For details on the DSL available within this file, see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html + + # Serve websocket cable requests in-process + # mount ActionCable.server => '/cable' +end ``` This is your application's _routing file_ which holds entries in a special [DSL (domain-specific language)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language) that tells Rails how to connect incoming requests to -controllers and actions. This file contains many sample routes on commented -lines, and one of them actually shows you how to connect the root of your site -to a specific controller and action. Find the line beginning with `root` and -uncomment it. It should look something like the following: +controllers and actions. +Edit this file by adding the line of code `root 'welcome#index'`. +It should look something like the following: ```ruby -root 'welcome#index' +Rails.application.routes.draw do + get 'welcome/index' + + # For details on the DSL available within this file, see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html + + # Serve websocket cable requests in-process + # mount ActionCable.server => '/cable' + root 'welcome#index' +end ``` `root 'welcome#index'` tells Rails to map requests to the root of the application to the welcome controller's index action and `get 'welcome/index'` tells Rails to map requests to <http://localhost:3000/welcome/index> to the welcome controller's index action. This was created earlier when you ran the -controller generator (`bin/rails generate controller welcome index`). +controller generator (`bin/rails generate controller Welcome index`). Launch the web server again if you stopped it to generate the controller (`bin/rails server`) and navigate to <http://localhost:3000> in your browser. You'll see the @@ -348,7 +352,7 @@ operations are referred to as _CRUD_ operations. Rails provides a `resources` method which can be used to declare a standard REST resource. You need to add the _article resource_ to the -`config/routes.rb` as follows: +`config/routes.rb` so the file will look as follows: ```ruby Rails.application.routes.draw do @@ -387,7 +391,7 @@ create and read. The form for doing this will look like this: It will look a little basic for now, but that's ok. We'll look at improving the styling for it afterwards. -### Laying down the ground work +### Laying down the groundwork Firstly, you need a place within the application to create a new article. A great place for that would be at `/articles/new`. With the route already @@ -403,7 +407,7 @@ a controller called `ArticlesController`. You can do this by running this command: ```bash -$ bin/rails generate controller articles +$ bin/rails generate controller Articles ``` If you open up the newly generated `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb` @@ -471,7 +475,7 @@ one here because the `ArticlesController` inherits from `ApplicationController`. The next part of the message contains a hash. The `:locale` key in this hash simply indicates which spoken language template should be retrieved. By default, this is the English - or "en" - template. The next key, `:formats` specifies the -format of template to be served in response. The default format is `:html`, and +format of the template to be served in response. The default format is `:html`, and so Rails is looking for an HTML template. The final key, `:handlers`, is telling us what _template handlers_ could be used to render our template. `:erb` is most commonly used for HTML templates, `:builder` is used for XML templates, and @@ -625,7 +629,7 @@ end The `render` method here is taking a very simple hash with a key of `:plain` and value of `params[:article].inspect`. The `params` method is the object which represents the parameters (or fields) coming in from the form. The `params` -method returns an `ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess` object, which +method returns an `ActionController::Parameters` object, which allows you to access the keys of the hash using either strings or symbols. In this situation, the only parameters that matter are the ones from the form. @@ -635,7 +639,7 @@ If you re-submit the form one more time you'll now no longer get the missing template error. Instead, you'll see something that looks like the following: ```ruby -{"title"=>"First article!", "text"=>"This is my first article."} +<ActionController::Parameters {"title"=>"First Article!", "text"=>"This is my first article."} permitted: false> ``` This action is now displaying the parameters for the article that are coming in @@ -653,7 +657,7 @@ run this command in your terminal: $ bin/rails generate model Article title:string text:text ``` -With that command we told Rails that we want a `Article` model, together +With that command we told Rails that we want an `Article` model, together with a _title_ attribute of type string, and a _text_ attribute of type text. Those attributes are automatically added to the `articles` table in the database and mapped to the `Article` model. @@ -686,7 +690,7 @@ class CreateArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] t.string :title t.text :text - t.timestamps null: false + t.timestamps end end end @@ -767,7 +771,7 @@ Why do you have to bother? The ability to grab and automatically assign all controller parameters to your model in one shot makes the programmer's job easier, but this convenience also allows malicious use. What if a request to the server was crafted to look like a new article form submit but also included -extra fields with values that violated your applications integrity? They would +extra fields with values that violated your application's integrity? They would be 'mass assigned' into your model and then into the database along with the good stuff - potentially breaking your application or worse. @@ -1540,6 +1544,11 @@ This is very similar to the `Article` model that you saw earlier. The difference is the line `belongs_to :article`, which sets up an Active Record _association_. You'll learn a little about associations in the next section of this guide. +The (`:references`) keyword used in the bash command is a special data type for models. +It creates a new column on your database table with the provided model name appended with an `_id` +that can hold integer values. You can get a better understanding after analyzing the +`db/schema.rb` file below. + In addition to the model, Rails has also made a migration to create the corresponding database table: @@ -1549,9 +1558,9 @@ class CreateComments < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] create_table :comments do |t| t.string :commenter t.text :body - t.references :article, index: true, foreign_key: true + t.references :article, foreign_key: true - t.timestamps null: false + t.timestamps end end end |