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-rw-r--r--guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md2
-rw-r--r--guides/source/api_app.md2
-rw-r--r--guides/source/getting_started.md23
-rw-r--r--guides/source/routing.md2
4 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md
index 3db46bc42e..903f39994f 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md
@@ -1201,6 +1201,8 @@ The `inquiry` method converts a string into a `StringInquirer` object making equ
"active".inquiry.inactive? # => false
```
+NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/string/inquiry.rb`.
+
### `starts_with?` and `ends_with?`
Active Support defines 3rd person aliases of `String#start_with?` and `String#end_with?`:
diff --git a/guides/source/api_app.md b/guides/source/api_app.md
index 85367c50e7..870f5f7b87 100644
--- a/guides/source/api_app.md
+++ b/guides/source/api_app.md
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ controller modules by default:
- `ActionController::Renderers::All`: Support for `render :json` and friends.
- `ActionController::ConditionalGet`: Support for `stale?`.
- `ActionController::BasicImplicitRender`: Makes sure to return an empty response, if there isn't an explicit one.
-- `ActionController::StrongParameters`: Support for parameters white-listing in combination with Active Model mass assignment.
+- `ActionController::StrongParameters`: Support for parameters filtering in combination with Active Model mass assignment.
- `ActionController::DataStreaming`: Support for `send_file` and `send_data`.
- `AbstractController::Callbacks`: Support for `before_action` and
similar helpers.
diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md
index 264c94326e..be59cd0cfa 100644
--- a/guides/source/getting_started.md
+++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md
@@ -461,22 +461,19 @@ available, Rails will raise an exception.
Let's look at the full error message again:
->ArticlesController#new is missing a template for this request format and variant. request.formats: ["text/html"] request.variant: [] NOTE! For XHR/Ajax or API requests, this action would normally respond with 204 No Content: an empty white screen. Since you're loading it in a web browser, we assume that you expected to actually render a template, not… nothing, so we're showing an error to be extra-clear. If you expect 204 No Content, carry on. That's what you'll get from an XHR or API request. Give it a shot.
+>ArticlesController#new is missing a template for request formats: text/html
-That's quite a lot of text! Let's quickly go through and understand what each
-part of it means.
+>NOTE!
+>Unless told otherwise, Rails expects an action to render a template with the same name, contained in a folder named after its controller. If this controller is an API responding with 204 (No Content), which does not require a template, then this error will occur when trying to access it via browser, since we expect an HTML template to be rendered for such requests. If that's the case, carry on.
-The first part identifies which template is missing. In this case, it's the
+The message identifies which template is missing. In this case, it's the
`articles/new` template. Rails will first look for this template. If not found,
-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 `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.
+then it will attempt to load a template called `application/new`, because the
+`ArticlesController` inherits from `ApplicationController`.
+
+Next 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.
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:
diff --git a/guides/source/routing.md b/guides/source/routing.md
index a33ac6a589..92d5b45e7d 100644
--- a/guides/source/routing.md
+++ b/guides/source/routing.md
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ In each of these cases, the named routes remain the same as if you did not use `
| PATCH/PUT | /admin/articles/:id | articles#update | article_path(:id) |
| DELETE | /admin/articles/:id | articles#destroy | article_path(:id) |
-TIP: _If you need to use a different controller namespace inside a `namespace` block you can specify an absolute controller path, e.g: `get '/foo' => '/foo#index'`._
+TIP: _If you need to use a different controller namespace inside a `namespace` block you can specify an absolute controller path, e.g: `get '/foo', to: '/foo#index'`._
### Nested Resources