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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index b0d3953cbd..8a451ab793 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ The Rails philosophy includes two major guiding principles: again, our code is more maintainable, more extensible, and less buggy. * **Convention Over Configuration:** Rails has opinions about the best way to do many things in a web application, and defaults to this set of conventions, rather than - require that you specify every minutiae through endless configuration files. + require that you specify minutiae through endless configuration files. Creating a New Rails Project ---------------------------- @@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ This will create a Rails application called Blog in a `blog` directory and install the gem dependencies that are already mentioned in `Gemfile` using `bundle install`. +NOTE: If you're using Windows Subsystem for Linux then there are currently some +limitations on file system notifications that mean you should disable the `spring` +and `listen` gems which you can do by running `rails new blog --skip-spring --skip-listen`. + TIP: You can see all of the command line options that the Rails application builder accepts by running `rails new -h`. @@ -178,6 +182,7 @@ of the files and folders that Rails created by default: |test/|Unit tests, fixtures, and other test apparatus. These are covered in [Testing Rails Applications](testing.html).| |tmp/|Temporary files (like cache and pid files).| |vendor/|A place for all third-party code. In a typical Rails application this includes vendored gems.| +|.gitignore|This file tells git which files (or patterns) it should ignore. See [Github - Ignoring files](https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files) for more info about ignoring files. Hello, Rails! ------------- @@ -349,6 +354,7 @@ resource. You need to add the _article resource_ to the ```ruby Rails.application.routes.draw do + get 'welcome/index' resources :articles @@ -465,29 +471,24 @@ The first part identifies which template is missing. In this case, it's the then it will attempt to load a template called `application/new`. It looks for 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 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 -`:coffee` uses CoffeeScript to build JavaScript templates. - -The message also contains `request.formats` which specifies the format of template to be -served in response. It is set to `text/html` as we requested this page via browser, so Rails -is looking for an HTML template. +The next part of the message contains `request.formats` which specifies +the format of template to be served in response. It is set to `text/html` as we +requested this page via browser, so Rails is looking for an HTML template. +`request.variant` specifies what kind of physical devices would be served by +the response and helps Rails determine which template to use in the response. +It is empty because no information has been provided. The simplest template that would work in this case would be one located at `app/views/articles/new.html.erb`. The extension of this file name is important: the first extension is the _format_ of the template, and the second extension -is the _handler_ that will be used. Rails is attempting to find a template -called `articles/new` within `app/views` for the application. The format for -this template can only be `html` and the handler must be one of `erb`, -`builder` or `coffee`. `:erb` is most commonly used for HTML templates, `:builder` is -used for XML templates, and `:coffee` uses CoffeeScript to build JavaScript templates. -Because you want to create a new HTML form, you will be -using the `ERB` language which is designed to embed Ruby in HTML. +is the _handler_ that will be used to render the template. Rails is attempting +to find a template called `articles/new` within `app/views` for the +application. The format for this template can only be `html` and the default +handler for HTML is `erb`. Rails uses other handlers for other formats. +`builder` handler is used to build XML templates and `coffee` handler uses +CoffeeScript to build JavaScript templates. Since you want to create a new +HTML form, you will be using the `ERB` language which is designed to embed Ruby +in HTML. Therefore the file should be called `articles/new.html.erb` and needs to be located inside the `app/views` directory of the application. @@ -528,7 +529,7 @@ method called `form_for`. To use this method, add this code into <% end %> ``` -If you refresh the page now, you'll see the exact same form as in the example. +If you refresh the page now, you'll see the exact same form from our example above. Building forms in Rails is really just that easy! When you call `form_for`, you pass it an identifying object for this @@ -632,8 +633,7 @@ this situation, the only parameters that matter are the ones from the form. TIP: Ensure you have a firm grasp of the `params` method, as you'll use it fairly regularly. Let's consider an example URL: **http://www.example.com/?username=dhh&email=dhh@email.com**. In this URL, `params[:username]` would equal "dhh" and `params[:email]` would equal "dhh@email.com". -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: +If you re-submit the form one more time, you'll see something that looks like the following: ```ruby <ActionController::Parameters {"title"=>"First Article!", "text"=>"This is my first article."} permitted: false> @@ -700,8 +700,8 @@ in case you want to reverse it later. When you run this migration it will create an `articles` table with one string column and a text column. It also creates two timestamp fields to allow Rails to track article creation and update times. -TIP: For more information about migrations, refer to [Rails Database Migrations] -(migrations.html). +TIP: For more information about migrations, refer to [Active Record Migrations] +(active_record_migrations.html). At this point, you can use a bin/rails command to run the migration: @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ NOTE: A frequent practice is to place the standard CRUD actions in each controller in the following order: `index`, `show`, `new`, `edit`, `create`, `update` and `destroy`. You may use any order you choose, but keep in mind that these are public methods; as mentioned earlier in this guide, they must be placed -before any private or protected method in the controller in order to work. +before declaring `private` visibility in the controller. Given that, let's add the `show` action, as follows: @@ -1155,9 +1155,9 @@ new articles. Create a file called `app/views/articles/edit.html.erb` and make it look as follows: ```html+erb -<h1>Editing article</h1> +<h1>Edit article</h1> -<%= form_for :article, url: article_path(@article), method: :patch do |f| %> +<%= form_for(@article) do |f| %> <% if @article.errors.any? %> <div id="error_explanation"> @@ -1195,14 +1195,15 @@ it look as follows: This time we point the form to the `update` action, which is not defined yet but will be very soon. -The `method: :patch` option tells Rails that we want this form to be submitted +Passing the article object to the method, will automagically create url for submitting the edited article form. +This option tells Rails that we want this form to be submitted via the `PATCH` HTTP method which is the HTTP method you're expected to use to **update** resources according to the REST protocol. The first parameter of `form_for` can be an object, say, `@article` which would cause the helper to fill in the form with the fields of the object. Passing in a symbol (`:article`) with the same name as the instance variable (`@article`) -also automagically leads to the same behavior. This is what is happening here. +also automagically leads to the same behavior. More details can be found in [form_for documentation] (http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_for). @@ -1655,8 +1656,8 @@ This creates five files and one empty directory: | app/views/comments/ | Views of the controller are stored here | | test/controllers/comments_controller_test.rb | The test for the controller | | app/helpers/comments_helper.rb | A view helper file | -| app/assets/javascripts/comment.coffee | CoffeeScript for the controller | -| app/assets/stylesheets/comment.scss | Cascading style sheet for the controller | +| app/assets/javascripts/comments.coffee | CoffeeScript for the controller | +| app/assets/stylesheets/comments.scss | Cascading style sheet for the controller | Like with any blog, our readers will create their comments directly after reading the article, and once they have added their comment, will be sent back |