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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index e26ebae0fb..2fb0cd7c72 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ application. Most of the work in this tutorial will happen in the `app/` folder, | ----------- | ------- | |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.| |bin/|Contains the rails script that starts your app and can contain other scripts you use to deploy or run your application.| -|config/|Configure your application's runtime rules, routes, database, and more. This is covered in more detail in [Configuring Rails Applications](configuring.html)| +|config/|Configure your application's runtime rules, 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.| |db/|Contains your current database schema, as well as the database migrations.| |Gemfile<br />Gemfile.lock|These files allow you to specify what gem dependencies are needed for your Rails application. These files are used by the Bundler gem. For more information about Bundler, see [the Bundler website](http://gembundler.com) | @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ Blog::Application.routes.draw do end ``` -If you run `rake routes`, you'll see that all the routes for the +If you run `rake routes`, you'll see that all the routes for the standard RESTful actions. ```bash @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ It will look a little basic for now, but that's ok. We'll look at improving the ### Laying down the ground work -The first thing that you are going to need to create a new post within the application is a place to do that. A great place for that would be at `/posts/new`. With the route already defined, requests can now be made to `/posts/new` in the application. Navigate to <http://localhost:3000/posts/new> and you'll see a routing error: +The first thing that you are going to need to create a new post within the application is a place to do that. A great place for that would be at `/posts/new`. With the route already defined, requests can now be made to `/posts/new` in the application. Navigate to <http://localhost:3000/posts/new> and you'll see a routing error:  @@ -560,14 +560,14 @@ whether the model was saved or not. If you submit the form again now, Rails will complain about not finding the `show` action. That's not very useful though, so let's add the -`show` action before proceeding. +`show` action before proceeding. ```ruby post GET /posts/:id(.:format) posts#show ``` The special syntax `:id` tells rails that this route expects an `:id` -parameter, which in our case will be the id of the post. +parameter, which in our case will be the id of the post. As we did before, we need to add the `show` action in `app/controllers/posts_controller.rb` and its respective view. @@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ Visit <http://localhost:3000/posts/new> and give it a try! ### Listing all posts -We still need a way to list all our posts, so let's do that. +We still need a way to list all our posts, so let's do that. We'll use a specific route from `config/routes.rb`: ```ruby @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ end ``` These changes will ensure that all posts have a title that is at least five -characters long. Rails can validate a variety of conditions in a model, +characters long. Rails can validate a variety of conditions in a model, including the presence or uniqueness of columns, their format, and the existence of associated objects. Validations are covered in detail in [Active Record Validations](active_record_validations.html) @@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ def create @post = Post.new(params[:post].permit(:title, :text)) if @post.save - redirect_to @post + redirect_to @post else render 'new' end @@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ together. </table> ``` -Here we're using `link_to` in a different way. We pass the named route as the first argument, +Here we're using `link_to` in a different way. We pass the named route as the first argument, and then the final two keys as another argument. The `:method` and `:'data-confirm'` options are used as HTML5 attributes so that when the link is clicked, Rails will first show a confirm dialog to the user, and then submit the link with method `delete`. @@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ generated the application. Without this file, the confirmation dialog box wouldn  Congratulations, you can now create, show, list, update and destroy -posts. +posts. TIP: In general, Rails encourages the use of resources objects in place of declaring routes manually. |