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-rw-r--r--guides/source/2_3_release_notes.md4
-rw-r--r--guides/source/3_0_release_notes.md4
-rw-r--r--guides/source/3_2_release_notes.md2
-rw-r--r--guides/source/_license.html.erb2
-rw-r--r--guides/source/_welcome.html.erb8
-rw-r--r--guides/source/action_mailer_basics.md6
-rw-r--r--guides/source/action_view_overview.md220
-rw-r--r--guides/source/active_record_basics.md22
-rw-r--r--guides/source/active_record_callbacks.md16
-rw-r--r--guides/source/active_record_postgresql.md433
-rw-r--r--guides/source/active_record_querying.md218
-rw-r--r--guides/source/active_record_validations.md12
-rw-r--r--guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md41
-rw-r--r--guides/source/active_support_instrumentation.md5
-rw-r--r--guides/source/api_documentation_guidelines.md49
-rw-r--r--guides/source/asset_pipeline.md36
-rw-r--r--guides/source/association_basics.md40
-rw-r--r--guides/source/caching_with_rails.md2
-rw-r--r--guides/source/command_line.md74
-rw-r--r--guides/source/configuring.md54
-rw-r--r--guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md107
-rw-r--r--guides/source/debugging_rails_applications.md169
-rw-r--r--guides/source/development_dependencies_install.md4
-rw-r--r--guides/source/documents.yaml6
-rw-r--r--guides/source/engines.md320
-rw-r--r--guides/source/form_helpers.md62
-rw-r--r--guides/source/generators.md30
-rw-r--r--guides/source/getting_started.md358
-rw-r--r--guides/source/i18n.md13
-rw-r--r--guides/source/index.html.erb1
-rw-r--r--guides/source/layout.html.erb5
-rw-r--r--guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md24
-rw-r--r--guides/source/maintenance_policy.md27
-rw-r--r--guides/source/migrations.md37
-rw-r--r--guides/source/plugins.md14
-rw-r--r--guides/source/rails_application_templates.md4
-rw-r--r--guides/source/rails_on_rack.md4
-rw-r--r--guides/source/routing.md168
-rw-r--r--guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.md2
-rw-r--r--guides/source/security.md18
-rw-r--r--guides/source/testing.md181
-rw-r--r--guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md27
-rw-r--r--guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md30
43 files changed, 1803 insertions, 1056 deletions
diff --git a/guides/source/2_3_release_notes.md b/guides/source/2_3_release_notes.md
index 8c633fa169..2302a618b6 100644
--- a/guides/source/2_3_release_notes.md
+++ b/guides/source/2_3_release_notes.md
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ The internals of the various <code>rake gem</code> tasks have been substantially
* Various files in /public that deal with CGI and FCGI dispatching are no longer generated in every Rails application by default (you can still get them if you need them by adding `--with-dispatchers` when you run the `rails` command, or add them later with `rake rails:update:generate_dispatchers`).
* Rails Guides have been converted from AsciiDoc to Textile markup.
* Scaffolded views and controllers have been cleaned up a bit.
-* `script/server` now accepts a <tt>--path</tt> argument to mount a Rails application from a specific path.
+* `script/server` now accepts a `--path` argument to mount a Rails application from a specific path.
* If any configured gems are missing, the gem rake tasks will skip loading much of the environment. This should solve many of the "chicken-and-egg" problems where rake gems:install couldn't run because gems were missing.
* Gems are now unpacked exactly once. This fixes issues with gems (hoe, for instance) which are packed with read-only permissions on the files.
@@ -618,4 +618,4 @@ A few pieces of older code are deprecated in this release:
Credits
-------
-Release notes compiled by [Mike Gunderloy](http://afreshcup.com.) This version of the Rails 2.3 release notes was compiled based on RC2 of Rails 2.3.
+Release notes compiled by [Mike Gunderloy](http://afreshcup.com). This version of the Rails 2.3 release notes was compiled based on RC2 of Rails 2.3.
diff --git a/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.md b/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.md
index 2d4be0cda7..2d7c06837b 100644
--- a/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.md
+++ b/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.md
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ More Information:
Major re-write was done in the Action View helpers, implementing Unobtrusive JavaScript (UJS) hooks and removing the old inline AJAX commands. This enables Rails to use any compliant UJS driver to implement the UJS hooks in the helpers.
-What this means is that all previous `remote_<method>` helpers have been removed from Rails core and put into the [Prototype Legacy Helper](http://github.com/rails/prototype_legacy_helper.) To get UJS hooks into your HTML, you now pass `:remote => true` instead. For example:
+What this means is that all previous `remote_<method>` helpers have been removed from Rails core and put into the [Prototype Legacy Helper](http://github.com/rails/prototype_legacy_helper). To get UJS hooks into your HTML, you now pass `:remote => true` instead. For example:
```ruby
form_for @post, :remote => true
@@ -608,4 +608,4 @@ Credits
See the [full list of contributors to Rails](http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/) for the many people who spent many hours making Rails 3. Kudos to all of them.
-Rails 3.0 Release Notes were compiled by [Mikel Lindsaar](http://lindsaar.net.)
+Rails 3.0 Release Notes were compiled by [Mikel Lindsaar](http://lindsaar.net).
diff --git a/guides/source/3_2_release_notes.md b/guides/source/3_2_release_notes.md
index cdcde67869..2416e1a228 100644
--- a/guides/source/3_2_release_notes.md
+++ b/guides/source/3_2_release_notes.md
@@ -562,4 +562,4 @@ Credits
See the [full list of contributors to Rails](http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/) for the many people who spent many hours making Rails, the stable and robust framework it is. Kudos to all of them.
-Rails 3.2 Release Notes were compiled by [Vijay Dev](https://github.com/vijaydev.)
+Rails 3.2 Release Notes were compiled by [Vijay Dev](https://github.com/vijaydev).
diff --git a/guides/source/_license.html.erb b/guides/source/_license.html.erb
index 00b4466f50..d22f016948 100644
--- a/guides/source/_license.html.erb
+++ b/guides/source/_license.html.erb
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-<p>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0</a> License</p>
+<p>This work is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International</a> License</p>
<p>"Rails", "Ruby on Rails", and the Rails logo are trademarks of David Heinemeier Hansson. All rights reserved.</p>
diff --git a/guides/source/_welcome.html.erb b/guides/source/_welcome.html.erb
index 7e39f761f2..6ec3aa78a4 100644
--- a/guides/source/_welcome.html.erb
+++ b/guides/source/_welcome.html.erb
@@ -15,11 +15,5 @@
</p>
<% end %>
<p>
- The guides for Rails 4.0.x are available at <a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v4.0.4/">http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v4.0.4/</a>.
-</p>
-<p>
- The guides for Rails 3.2.x are available at <a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v3.2.17/">http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v3.2.17/</a>.
-</p>
-<p>
- The guides for Rails 2.3.x are available at <a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3.11/">http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3.11/</a>.
+ The guides for earlier releases: <a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v4.1.1/">Rails 4.1.1</a>, <a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v4.0.5/">Rails 4.0.5</a>, <a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v3.2.18/">Rails 3.2.18</a> and <a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3.11/">Rails 2.3.11</a>.
</p>
diff --git a/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.md b/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.md
index 6dc7fb1606..c67f6188c4 100644
--- a/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.md
+++ b/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ views.
#### Create the Mailer
```bash
-$ rails generate mailer UserMailer
+$ bin/rails generate mailer UserMailer
create app/mailers/user_mailer.rb
invoke erb
create app/views/user_mailer
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ Setting this up is painfully simple.
First, let's create a simple `User` scaffold:
```bash
-$ rails generate scaffold user name email login
-$ rake db:migrate
+$ bin/rails generate scaffold user name email login
+$ bin/rake db:migrate
```
Now that we have a user model to play with, we will just edit the
diff --git a/guides/source/action_view_overview.md b/guides/source/action_view_overview.md
index 74f95bfcfd..ef7ef5a50e 100644
--- a/guides/source/action_view_overview.md
+++ b/guides/source/action_view_overview.md
@@ -28,22 +28,22 @@ For each controller there is an associated directory in the `app/views` director
Let's take a look at what Rails does by default when creating a new resource using the scaffold generator:
```bash
-$ rails generate scaffold post
+$ bin/rails generate scaffold article
[...]
invoke scaffold_controller
- create app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
+ create app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
invoke erb
- create app/views/posts
- create app/views/posts/index.html.erb
- create app/views/posts/edit.html.erb
- create app/views/posts/show.html.erb
- create app/views/posts/new.html.erb
- create app/views/posts/_form.html.erb
+ create app/views/articles
+ create app/views/articles/index.html.erb
+ create app/views/articles/edit.html.erb
+ create app/views/articles/show.html.erb
+ create app/views/articles/new.html.erb
+ create app/views/articles/_form.html.erb
[...]
```
There is a naming convention for views in Rails. Typically, the views share their name with the associated controller action, as you can see above.
-For example, the index controller action of the `posts_controller.rb` will use the `index.html.erb` view file in the `app/views/posts` directory.
+For example, the index controller action of the `articles_controller.rb` will use the `index.html.erb` view file in the `app/views/articles` directory.
The complete HTML returned to the client is composed of a combination of this ERB file, a layout template that wraps it, and all the partials that the view may reference. Later on this guide you can find a more detailed documentation of each one of these three components.
@@ -276,23 +276,23 @@ Partial Layouts
Partials can have their own layouts applied to them. These layouts are different than the ones that are specified globally for the entire action, but they work in a similar fashion.
-Let's say we're displaying a post on a page, that should be wrapped in a `div` for display purposes. First, we'll create a new `Post`:
+Let's say we're displaying an article on a page, that should be wrapped in a `div` for display purposes. First, we'll create a new `Article`:
```ruby
-Post.create(body: 'Partial Layouts are cool!')
+Article.create(body: 'Partial Layouts are cool!')
```
-In the `show` template, we'll render the `_post` partial wrapped in the `box` layout:
+In the `show` template, we'll render the `_article` partial wrapped in the `box` layout:
-**posts/show.html.erb**
+**articles/show.html.erb**
```erb
-<%= render partial: 'post', layout: 'box', locals: {post: @post} %>
+<%= render partial: 'article', layout: 'box', locals: {article: @article} %>
```
-The `box` layout simply wraps the `_post` partial in a `div`:
+The `box` layout simply wraps the `_article` partial in a `div`:
-**posts/_box.html.erb**
+**articles/_box.html.erb**
```html+erb
<div class='box'>
@@ -300,13 +300,13 @@ The `box` layout simply wraps the `_post` partial in a `div`:
</div>
```
-The `_post` partial wraps the post's `body` in a `div` with the `id` of the post using the `div_for` helper:
+The `_article` partial wraps the article's `body` in a `div` with the `id` of the article using the `div_for` helper:
-**posts/_post.html.erb**
+**articles/_article.html.erb**
```html+erb
-<%= div_for(post) do %>
- <p><%= post.body %></p>
+<%= div_for(article) do %>
+ <p><%= article.body %></p>
<% end %>
```
@@ -314,22 +314,22 @@ this would output the following:
```html
<div class='box'>
- <div id='post_1'>
+ <div id='article_1'>
<p>Partial Layouts are cool!</p>
</div>
</div>
```
-Note that the partial layout has access to the local `post` variable that was passed into the `render` call. However, unlike application-wide layouts, partial layouts still have the underscore prefix.
+Note that the partial layout has access to the local `article` variable that was passed into the `render` call. However, unlike application-wide layouts, partial layouts still have the underscore prefix.
-You can also render a block of code within a partial layout instead of calling `yield`. For example, if we didn't have the `_post` partial, we could do this instead:
+You can also render a block of code within a partial layout instead of calling `yield`. For example, if we didn't have the `_article` partial, we could do this instead:
-**posts/show.html.erb**
+**articles/show.html.erb**
```html+erb
-<% render(layout: 'box', locals: {post: @post}) do %>
- <%= div_for(post) do %>
- <p><%= post.body %></p>
+<% render(layout: 'box', locals: {article: @article}) do %>
+ <%= div_for(article) do %>
+ <p><%= article.body %></p>
<% end %>
<% end %>
```
@@ -356,18 +356,18 @@ This module provides methods for generating container tags, such as `div`, for y
Renders a container tag that relates to your Active Record Object.
-For example, given `@post` is the object of `Post` class, you can do:
+For example, given `@article` is the object of `Article` class, you can do:
```html+erb
-<%= content_tag_for(:tr, @post) do %>
- <td><%= @post.title %></td>
+<%= content_tag_for(:tr, @article) do %>
+ <td><%= @article.title %></td>
<% end %>
```
This will generate this HTML output:
```html
-<tr id="post_1234" class="post">
+<tr id="article_1234" class="article">
<td>Hello World!</td>
</tr>
```
@@ -375,34 +375,34 @@ This will generate this HTML output:
You can also supply HTML attributes as an additional option hash. For example:
```html+erb
-<%= content_tag_for(:tr, @post, class: "frontpage") do %>
- <td><%= @post.title %></td>
+<%= content_tag_for(:tr, @article, class: "frontpage") do %>
+ <td><%= @article.title %></td>
<% end %>
```
Will generate this HTML output:
```html
-<tr id="post_1234" class="post frontpage">
+<tr id="article_1234" class="article frontpage">
<td>Hello World!</td>
</tr>
```
-You can pass a collection of Active Record objects. This method will loop through your objects and create a container for each of them. For example, given `@posts` is an array of two `Post` objects:
+You can pass a collection of Active Record objects. This method will loop through your objects and create a container for each of them. For example, given `@articles` is an array of two `Article` objects:
```html+erb
-<%= content_tag_for(:tr, @posts) do |post| %>
- <td><%= post.title %></td>
+<%= content_tag_for(:tr, @articles) do |article| %>
+ <td><%= article.title %></td>
<% end %>
```
Will generate this HTML output:
```html
-<tr id="post_1234" class="post">
+<tr id="article_1234" class="article">
<td>Hello World!</td>
</tr>
-<tr id="post_1235" class="post">
+<tr id="article_1235" class="article">
<td>Ruby on Rails Rocks!</td>
</tr>
```
@@ -412,15 +412,15 @@ Will generate this HTML output:
This is actually a convenient method which calls `content_tag_for` internally with `:div` as the tag name. You can pass either an Active Record object or a collection of objects. For example:
```html+erb
-<%= div_for(@post, class: "frontpage") do %>
- <td><%= @post.title %></td>
+<%= div_for(@article, class: "frontpage") do %>
+ <td><%= @article.title %></td>
<% end %>
```
Will generate this HTML output:
```html
-<div id="post_1234" class="post frontpage">
+<div id="article_1234" class="article frontpage">
<td>Hello World!</td>
</div>
```
@@ -590,14 +590,14 @@ This helper makes building an Atom feed easy. Here's a full usage example:
**config/routes.rb**
```ruby
-resources :posts
+resources :articles
```
-**app/controllers/posts_controller.rb**
+**app/controllers/articles_controller.rb**
```ruby
def index
- @posts = Post.all
+ @articles = Article.all
respond_to do |format|
format.html
@@ -606,20 +606,20 @@ def index
end
```
-**app/views/posts/index.atom.builder**
+**app/views/articles/index.atom.builder**
```ruby
atom_feed do |feed|
- feed.title("Posts Index")
- feed.updated((@posts.first.created_at))
+ feed.title("Articles Index")
+ feed.updated((@articles.first.created_at))
- @posts.each do |post|
- feed.entry(post) do |entry|
- entry.title(post.title)
- entry.content(post.body, type: 'html')
+ @articles.each do |article|
+ feed.entry(article) do |entry|
+ entry.title(article.title)
+ entry.content(article.body, type: 'html')
entry.author do |author|
- author.name(post.author_name)
+ author.name(article.author_name)
end
end
end
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ For example, let's say we have a standard application layout, but also a special
</html>
```
-**app/views/posts/special.html.erb**
+**app/views/articles/special.html.erb**
```html+erb
<p>This is a special page.</p>
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ For example, let's say we have a standard application layout, but also a special
Returns a set of select tags (one for year, month, and day) pre-selected for accessing a specified date-based attribute.
```ruby
-date_select("post", "published_on")
+date_select("article", "published_on")
```
#### datetime_select
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ date_select("post", "published_on")
Returns a set of select tags (one for year, month, day, hour, and minute) pre-selected for accessing a specified datetime-based attribute.
```ruby
-datetime_select("post", "published_on")
+datetime_select("article", "published_on")
```
#### distance_of_time_in_words
@@ -904,10 +904,10 @@ The params hash has a nested person value, which can therefore be accessed with
Returns a checkbox tag tailored for accessing a specified attribute.
```ruby
-# Let's say that @post.validated? is 1:
-check_box("post", "validated")
-# => <input type="checkbox" id="post_validated" name="post[validated]" value="1" />
-# <input name="post[validated]" type="hidden" value="0" />
+# Let's say that @article.validated? is 1:
+check_box("article", "validated")
+# => <input type="checkbox" id="article_validated" name="article[validated]" value="1" />
+# <input name="article[validated]" type="hidden" value="0" />
```
#### fields_for
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ file_field(:user, :avatar)
Creates a form and a scope around a specific model object that is used as a base for questioning about values for the fields.
```html+erb
-<%= form_for @post do |f| %>
+<%= form_for @article do |f| %>
<%= f.label :title, 'Title' %>:
<%= f.text_field :title %><br>
<%= f.label :body, 'Body' %>:
@@ -961,8 +961,8 @@ hidden_field(:user, :token)
Returns a label tag tailored for labelling an input field for a specified attribute.
```ruby
-label(:post, :title)
-# => <label for="post_title">Title</label>
+label(:article, :title)
+# => <label for="article_title">Title</label>
```
#### password_field
@@ -979,11 +979,11 @@ password_field(:login, :pass)
Returns a radio button tag for accessing a specified attribute.
```ruby
-# Let's say that @post.category returns "rails":
-radio_button("post", "category", "rails")
-radio_button("post", "category", "java")
-# => <input type="radio" id="post_category_rails" name="post[category]" value="rails" checked="checked" />
-# <input type="radio" id="post_category_java" name="post[category]" value="java" />
+# Let's say that @article.category returns "rails":
+radio_button("article", "category", "rails")
+radio_button("article", "category", "java")
+# => <input type="radio" id="article_category_rails" name="article[category]" value="rails" checked="checked" />
+# <input type="radio" id="article_category_java" name="article[category]" value="java" />
```
#### text_area
@@ -1002,8 +1002,8 @@ text_area(:comment, :text, size: "20x30")
Returns an input tag of the "text" type tailored for accessing a specified attribute.
```ruby
-text_field(:post, :title)
-# => <input type="text" id="post_title" name="post[title]" value="#{@post.title}" />
+text_field(:article, :title)
+# => <input type="text" id="article_title" name="article[title]" value="#{@article.title}" />
```
#### email_field
@@ -1035,28 +1035,28 @@ Returns `select` and `option` tags for the collection of existing return values
Example object structure for use with this method:
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :author
end
class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
- has_many :posts
+ has_many :articles
def name_with_initial
"#{first_name.first}. #{last_name}"
end
end
```
-Sample usage (selecting the associated Author for an instance of Post, `@post`):
+Sample usage (selecting the associated Author for an instance of Article, `@article`):
```ruby
-collection_select(:post, :author_id, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial, {prompt: true})
+collection_select(:article, :author_id, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial, {prompt: true})
```
-If `@post.author_id` is 1, this would return:
+If `@article.author_id` is 1, this would return:
```html
-<select name="post[author_id]">
+<select name="article[author_id]">
<option value="">Please select</option>
<option value="1" selected="selected">D. Heinemeier Hansson</option>
<option value="2">D. Thomas</option>
@@ -1071,33 +1071,33 @@ Returns `radio_button` tags for the collection of existing return values of `met
Example object structure for use with this method:
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :author
end
class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
- has_many :posts
+ has_many :articles
def name_with_initial
"#{first_name.first}. #{last_name}"
end
end
```
-Sample usage (selecting the associated Author for an instance of Post, `@post`):
+Sample usage (selecting the associated Author for an instance of Article, `@article`):
```ruby
-collection_radio_buttons(:post, :author_id, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial)
+collection_radio_buttons(:article, :author_id, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial)
```
-If `@post.author_id` is 1, this would return:
+If `@article.author_id` is 1, this would return:
```html
-<input id="post_author_id_1" name="post[author_id]" type="radio" value="1" checked="checked" />
-<label for="post_author_id_1">D. Heinemeier Hansson</label>
-<input id="post_author_id_2" name="post[author_id]" type="radio" value="2" />
-<label for="post_author_id_2">D. Thomas</label>
-<input id="post_author_id_3" name="post[author_id]" type="radio" value="3" />
-<label for="post_author_id_3">M. Clark</label>
+<input id="article_author_id_1" name="article[author_id]" type="radio" value="1" checked="checked" />
+<label for="article_author_id_1">D. Heinemeier Hansson</label>
+<input id="article_author_id_2" name="article[author_id]" type="radio" value="2" />
+<label for="article_author_id_2">D. Thomas</label>
+<input id="article_author_id_3" name="article[author_id]" type="radio" value="3" />
+<label for="article_author_id_3">M. Clark</label>
```
#### collection_check_boxes
@@ -1107,34 +1107,34 @@ Returns `check_box` tags for the collection of existing return values of `method
Example object structure for use with this method:
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
has_and_belongs_to_many :authors
end
class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
- has_and_belongs_to_many :posts
+ has_and_belongs_to_many :articles
def name_with_initial
"#{first_name.first}. #{last_name}"
end
end
```
-Sample usage (selecting the associated Authors for an instance of Post, `@post`):
+Sample usage (selecting the associated Authors for an instance of Article, `@article`):
```ruby
-collection_check_boxes(:post, :author_ids, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial)
+collection_check_boxes(:article, :author_ids, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial)
```
-If `@post.author_ids` is [1], this would return:
+If `@article.author_ids` is [1], this would return:
```html
-<input id="post_author_ids_1" name="post[author_ids][]" type="checkbox" value="1" checked="checked" />
-<label for="post_author_ids_1">D. Heinemeier Hansson</label>
-<input id="post_author_ids_2" name="post[author_ids][]" type="checkbox" value="2" />
-<label for="post_author_ids_2">D. Thomas</label>
-<input id="post_author_ids_3" name="post[author_ids][]" type="checkbox" value="3" />
-<label for="post_author_ids_3">M. Clark</label>
-<input name="post[author_ids][]" type="hidden" value="" />
+<input id="article_author_ids_1" name="article[author_ids][]" type="checkbox" value="1" checked="checked" />
+<label for="article_author_ids_1">D. Heinemeier Hansson</label>
+<input id="article_author_ids_2" name="article[author_ids][]" type="checkbox" value="2" />
+<label for="article_author_ids_2">D. Thomas</label>
+<input id="article_author_ids_3" name="article[author_ids][]" type="checkbox" value="3" />
+<label for="article_author_ids_3">M. Clark</label>
+<input name="article[author_ids][]" type="hidden" value="" />
```
#### country_options_for_select
@@ -1222,13 +1222,13 @@ Create a select tag and a series of contained option tags for the provided objec
Example:
```ruby
-select("post", "person_id", Person.all.collect {|p| [ p.name, p.id ] }, {include_blank: true})
+select("article", "person_id", Person.all.collect {|p| [ p.name, p.id ] }, {include_blank: true})
```
-If `@post.person_id` is 1, this would become:
+If `@article.person_id` is 1, this would become:
```html
-<select name="post[person_id]">
+<select name="article[person_id]">
<option value=""></option>
<option value="1" selected="selected">David</option>
<option value="2">Sam</option>
@@ -1303,10 +1303,10 @@ file_field_tag 'attachment'
Starts a form tag that points the action to an url configured with `url_for_options` just like `ActionController::Base#url_for`.
```html+erb
-<%= form_tag '/posts' do %>
+<%= form_tag '/articles' do %>
<div><%= submit_tag 'Save' %></div>
<% end %>
-# => <form action="/posts" method="post"><div><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save" /></div></form>
+# => <form action="/articles" method="post"><div><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save" /></div></form>
```
#### hidden_field_tag
@@ -1368,8 +1368,8 @@ select_tag "people", "<option>David</option>"
Creates a submit button with the text provided as the caption.
```ruby
-submit_tag "Publish this post"
-# => <input name="commit" type="submit" value="Publish this post" />
+submit_tag "Publish this article"
+# => <input name="commit" type="submit" value="Publish this article" />
```
#### text_area_tag
@@ -1377,8 +1377,8 @@ submit_tag "Publish this post"
Creates a text input area; use a textarea for longer text inputs such as blog posts or descriptions.
```ruby
-text_area_tag 'post'
-# => <textarea id="post" name="post"></textarea>
+text_area_tag 'article'
+# => <textarea id="article" name="article"></textarea>
```
#### text_field_tag
@@ -1602,7 +1602,7 @@ Localized Views
Action View has the ability render different templates depending on the current locale.
-For example, suppose you have a `PostsController` with a show action. By default, calling this action will render `app/views/posts/show.html.erb`. But if you set `I18n.locale = :de`, then `app/views/posts/show.de.html.erb` will be rendered instead. If the localized template isn't present, the undecorated version will be used. This means you're not required to provide localized views for all cases, but they will be preferred and used if available.
+For example, suppose you have a `ArticlesController` with a show action. By default, calling this action will render `app/views/articles/show.html.erb`. But if you set `I18n.locale = :de`, then `app/views/articles/show.de.html.erb` will be rendered instead. If the localized template isn't present, the undecorated version will be used. This means you're not required to provide localized views for all cases, but they will be preferred and used if available.
You can use the same technique to localize the rescue files in your public directory. For example, setting `I18n.locale = :de` and creating `public/500.de.html` and `public/404.de.html` would allow you to have localized rescue pages.
@@ -1616,6 +1616,6 @@ def set_expert_locale
end
```
-Then you could create special views like `app/views/posts/show.expert.html.erb` that would only be displayed to expert users.
+Then you could create special views like `app/views/articles/show.expert.html.erb` that would only be displayed to expert users.
You can read more about the Rails Internationalization (I18n) API [here](i18n.html).
diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_basics.md b/guides/source/active_record_basics.md
index a184f0753d..21022f1abb 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_record_basics.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_record_basics.md
@@ -82,13 +82,13 @@ by underscores. Examples:
* Model Class - Singular with the first letter of each word capitalized (e.g.,
`BookClub`).
-| Model / Class | Table / Schema |
-| ------------- | -------------- |
-| `Post` | `posts` |
-| `LineItem` | `line_items` |
-| `Deer` | `deers` |
-| `Mouse` | `mice` |
-| `Person` | `people` |
+| Model / Class | Table / Schema |
+| ---------------- | -------------- |
+| `Article` | `articles` |
+| `LineItem` | `line_items` |
+| `Deer` | `deers` |
+| `Mouse` | `mice` |
+| `Person` | `people` |
### Schema Conventions
@@ -120,9 +120,9 @@ to Active Record instances:
* `(association_name)_type` - Stores the type for
[polymorphic associations](association_basics.html#polymorphic-associations).
* `(table_name)_count` - Used to cache the number of belonging objects on
- associations. For example, a `comments_count` column in a `Post` class that
+ associations. For example, a `comments_count` column in a `Articles` class that
has many instances of `Comment` will cache the number of existent comments
- for each post.
+ for each article.
NOTE: While these column names are optional, they are in fact reserved by Active Record. Steer clear of reserved keywords unless you want the extra functionality. For example, `type` is a reserved keyword used to designate a table using Single Table Inheritance (STI). If you are not using STI, try an analogous keyword like "context", that may still accurately describe the data you are modeling.
@@ -309,10 +309,10 @@ into the database. There are several methods that you can use to check your
models and validate that an attribute value is not empty, is unique and not
already in the database, follows a specific format and many more.
-Validation is a very important issue to consider when persisting to database, so
+Validation is a very important issue to consider when persisting to the database, so
the methods `create`, `save` and `update` take it into account when
running: they return `false` when validation fails and they didn't actually
-perform any operation on database. All of these have a bang counterpart (that
+perform any operation on the database. All of these have a bang counterpart (that
is, `create!`, `save!` and `update!`), which are stricter in that
they raise the exception `ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid` if validation fails.
A quick example to illustrate:
diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_callbacks.md b/guides/source/active_record_callbacks.md
index fbcce325ed..f0ae3c729e 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_record_callbacks.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_record_callbacks.md
@@ -261,27 +261,27 @@ WARNING. Any exception that is not `ActiveRecord::Rollback` will be re-raised by
Relational Callbacks
--------------------
-Callbacks work through model relationships, and can even be defined by them. Suppose an example where a user has many posts. A user's posts should be destroyed if the user is destroyed. Let's add an `after_destroy` callback to the `User` model by way of its relationship to the `Post` model:
+Callbacks work through model relationships, and can even be defined by them. Suppose an example where a user has many articles. A user's articles should be destroyed if the user is destroyed. Let's add an `after_destroy` callback to the `User` model by way of its relationship to the `Article` model:
```ruby
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
- has_many :posts, dependent: :destroy
+ has_many :articles, dependent: :destroy
end
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
after_destroy :log_destroy_action
def log_destroy_action
- puts 'Post destroyed'
+ puts 'Article destroyed'
end
end
>> user = User.first
=> #<User id: 1>
->> user.posts.create!
-=> #<Post id: 1, user_id: 1>
+>> user.articles.create!
+=> #<Article id: 1, user_id: 1>
>> user.destroy
-Post destroyed
+Article destroyed
=> #<User id: 1>
```
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ When writing conditional callbacks, it is possible to mix both `:if` and `:unles
```ruby
class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
after_create :send_email_to_author, if: :author_wants_emails?,
- unless: Proc.new { |comment| comment.post.ignore_comments? }
+ unless: Proc.new { |comment| comment.article.ignore_comments? }
end
```
diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_postgresql.md b/guides/source/active_record_postgresql.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dfa488773e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guides/source/active_record_postgresql.md
@@ -0,0 +1,433 @@
+Active Record and PostgreSQL
+============================
+
+This guide covers PostgreSQL specific usage of Active Record.
+
+After reading this guide, you will know:
+
+* How to use PostgreSQL's datatypes.
+* How to use UUID primary keys.
+* How to implement full text search with PostgreSQL.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+In order to use the PostgreSQL adapter you need to have at least version 8.2
+installed. Older versions are not supported.
+
+To get started with PostgreSQL have a look at the
+[configuring Rails guide](configuring.html#configuring-a-postgresql-database).
+It describes how to properly setup Active Record for PostgreSQL.
+
+Datatypes
+---------
+
+PostgreSQL offers a number of specific datatypes. Following is a list of types,
+that are supported by the PostgreSQL adapter.
+
+### Bytea
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-binary.html)
+* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-binarystring.html)
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20140207133952_create_documents.rb
+create_table :documents do |t|
+ t.binary 'payload'
+end
+
+# app/models/document.rb
+class Document < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+data = File.read(Rails.root + "tmp/output.pdf")
+Document.create payload: data
+```
+
+### Array
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/arrays.html)
+* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-array.html)
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20140207133952_create_books.rb
+create_table :book do |t|
+ t.string 'title'
+ t.string 'tags', array: true
+ t.integer 'ratings', array: true
+end
+
+# app/models/book.rb
+class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+Book.create title: "Brave New World",
+ tags: ["fantasy", "fiction"],
+ ratings: [4, 5]
+
+## Books for a single tag
+Book.where("'fantasy' = ANY (tags)")
+
+## Books for multiple tags
+Book.where("tags @> ARRAY[?]::varchar[]", ["fantasy", "fiction"])
+
+## Books with 3 or more ratings
+Book.where("array_length(ratings, 1) >= 3")
+```
+
+### Hstore
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/hstore.html)
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20131009135255_create_profiles.rb
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
+ create_table :profiles do |t|
+ t.hstore 'settings'
+ end
+end
+
+# app/models/profile.rb
+class Profile < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+Profile.create(settings: { "color" => "blue", "resolution" => "800x600" })
+
+profile = Profile.first
+profile.settings # => {"color"=>"blue", "resolution"=>"800x600"}
+
+profile.settings = {"color" => "yellow", "resolution" => "1280x1024"}
+profile.save!
+
+## you need to call _will_change! if you are editing the store in place
+profile.settings["color"] = "green"
+profile.settings_will_change!
+profile.save!
+```
+
+### JSON
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-json.html)
+* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-json.html)
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_events.rb
+create_table :events do |t|
+ t.json 'payload'
+end
+
+# app/models/event.rb
+class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+Event.create(payload: { kind: "user_renamed", change: ["jack", "john"]})
+
+event = Event.first
+event.payload # => {"kind"=>"user_renamed", "change"=>["jack", "john"]}
+
+## Query based on JSON document
+Event.where("payload->'kind' = ?", "user_renamed")
+```
+
+### Range Types
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/rangetypes.html)
+* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-range.html)
+
+This type is mapped to Ruby [`Range`](http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.1/Range.html) objects.
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20130923065404_create_events.rb
+create_table :events do |t|
+ t.daterange 'duration'
+end
+
+# app/models/event.rb
+class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+Event.create(duration: Date.new(2014, 2, 11)..Date.new(2014, 2, 12))
+
+event = Event.first
+event.duration # => Tue, 11 Feb 2014...Thu, 13 Feb 2014
+
+## All Events on a given date
+Event.where("duration @> ?::date", Date.new(2014, 2, 12))
+
+## Working with range bounds
+event = Event.
+ select("lower(duration) AS starts_at").
+ select("upper(duration) AS ends_at").first
+
+event.starts_at # => Tue, 11 Feb 2014
+event.ends_at # => Thu, 13 Feb 2014
+```
+
+### Composite Types
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/rowtypes.html)
+
+Currently there is no special support for composite types. They are mapped to
+normal text columns:
+
+```sql
+CREATE TYPE full_address AS
+(
+ city VARCHAR(90),
+ street VARCHAR(90)
+);
+```
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20140207133952_create_contacts.rb
+execute <<-SQL
+ CREATE TYPE full_address AS
+ (
+ city VARCHAR(90),
+ street VARCHAR(90)
+ );
+SQL
+create_table :contacts do |t|
+ t.column :address, :full_address
+end
+
+# app/models/contact.rb
+class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+Contact.create address: "(Paris,Champs-Élysées)"
+contact = Contact.first
+contact.address # => "(Paris,Champs-Élysées)"
+contact.address = "(Paris,Rue Basse)"
+contact.save!
+```
+
+### Enumerated Types
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-enum.html)
+
+Currently there is no special support for enumerated types. They are mapped as
+normal text columns:
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_events.rb
+execute <<-SQL
+ CREATE TYPE article_status AS ENUM ('draft', 'published');
+SQL
+create_table :articles do |t|
+ t.column :status, :article_status
+end
+
+# app/models/article.rb
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+Article.create status: "draft"
+article = Article.first
+article.status # => "draft"
+
+article.status = "published"
+article.save!
+```
+
+### UUID
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-uuid.html)
+* [generator functions](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/uuid-ossp.html)
+
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_revisions.rb
+create_table :revisions do |t|
+ t.column :identifier, :uuid
+end
+
+# app/models/revision.rb
+class Revision < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+Revision.create identifier: "A0EEBC99-9C0B-4EF8-BB6D-6BB9BD380A11"
+
+revision = Revision.first
+revision.identifier # => "a0eebc99-9c0b-4ef8-bb6d-6bb9bd380a11"
+```
+
+### Bit String Types
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-bit.html)
+* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-bitstring.html)
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_users.rb
+create_table :users, force: true do |t|
+ t.column :settings, "bit(8)"
+end
+
+# app/models/device.rb
+class User < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+User.create settings: "01010011"
+user = User.first
+user.settings # => "(Paris,Champs-Élysées)"
+user.settings = "0xAF"
+user.settings # => 10101111
+user.save!
+```
+
+### Network Address Types
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-net-types.html)
+
+The types `inet` and `cidr` are mapped to Ruby
+[`IPAddr`](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.1/libdoc/ipaddr/rdoc/IPAddr.html)
+objects. The `macaddr` type is mapped to normal text.
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20140508144913_create_devices.rb
+create_table(:devices, force: true) do |t|
+ t.inet 'ip'
+ t.cidr 'network'
+ t.macaddr 'address'
+end
+
+# app/models/device.rb
+class Device < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+macbook = Device.create(ip: "192.168.1.12",
+ network: "192.168.2.0/24",
+ address: "32:01:16:6d:05:ef")
+
+macbook.ip
+# => #<IPAddr: IPv4:192.168.1.12/255.255.255.255>
+
+macbook.network
+# => #<IPAddr: IPv4:192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0>
+
+macbook.address
+# => "32:01:16:6d:05:ef"
+```
+
+### Geometric Types
+
+* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-geometric.html)
+
+All geometric types are mapped to normal text.
+
+
+UUID Primary Keys
+-----------------
+
+NOTE: you need to enable the `uuid-ossp` extension to generate UUIDs.
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_devices.rb
+enable_extension 'uuid-ossp' unless extension_enabled?('uuid-ossp')
+create_table :devices, id: :uuid, default: 'uuid_generate_v4()' do |t|
+ t.string :kind
+end
+
+# app/models/device.rb
+class Device < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+device = Device.create
+device.id # => "814865cd-5a1d-4771-9306-4268f188fe9e"
+```
+
+Full Text Search
+----------------
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_documents.rb
+create_table :documents do |t|
+ t.string 'title'
+ t.string 'body'
+end
+
+execute "CREATE INDEX documents_idx ON documents USING gin(to_tsvector('english', title || ' ' || body));"
+
+# app/models/document.rb
+class Document < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+# Usage
+Document.create(title: "Cats and Dogs", body: "are nice!")
+
+## all documents matching 'cat & dog'
+Document.where("to_tsvector('english', title || ' ' || body) @@ to_tsquery(?)",
+ "cat & dog")
+```
+
+Views
+-----
+
+* [view creation](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-createview.html)
+
+Imagine you need to work with a legacy database containing the following table:
+
+```
+rails_pg_guide=# \d "TBL_ART"
+ Table "public.TBL_ART"
+ Column | Type | Modifiers
+------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------
+ INT_ID | integer | not null default nextval('"TBL_ART_INT_ID_seq"'::regclass)
+ STR_TITLE | character varying |
+ STR_STAT | character varying | default 'draft'::character varying
+ DT_PUBL_AT | timestamp without time zone |
+ BL_ARCH | boolean | default false
+Indexes:
+ "TBL_ART_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree ("INT_ID")
+```
+
+This table does not follow the Rails conventions at all.
+Because simple PostgreSQL views are updateable by default,
+we can wrap it as follows:
+
+```ruby
+# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_articles_view.rb
+execute <<-SQL
+CREATE VIEW articles AS
+ SELECT "INT_ID" AS id,
+ "STR_TITLE" AS title,
+ "STR_STAT" AS status,
+ "DT_PUBL_AT" AS published_at,
+ "BL_ARCH" AS archived
+ FROM "TBL_ART"
+ WHERE "BL_ARCH" = 'f'
+ SQL
+
+# app/models/article.rb
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
+ self.primary_key = "id"
+ def archive!
+ update_attribute :archived, true
+ end
+end
+
+# Usage
+first = Article.create! title: "Winter is coming",
+ status: "published",
+ published_at: 1.year.ago
+second = Article.create! title: "Brace yourself",
+ status: "draft",
+ published_at: 1.month.ago
+
+Article.count # => 1
+first.archive!
+p Article.count # => 2
+```
+
+NOTE: This application only cares about non-archived `Articles`. A view also
+allows for conditions so we can exclude the archived `Articles` directly.
diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_querying.md b/guides/source/active_record_querying.md
index 2a76df156c..ee8cf4ade6 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_record_querying.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_record_querying.md
@@ -472,8 +472,8 @@ Client.where('locked' => true)
In the case of a belongs_to relationship, an association key can be used to specify the model if an Active Record object is used as the value. This method works with polymorphic relationships as well.
```ruby
-Post.where(author: author)
-Author.joins(:posts).where(posts: { author: author })
+Article.where(author: author)
+Author.joins(:articles).where(articles: { author: author })
```
NOTE: The values cannot be symbols. For example, you cannot do `Client.where(status: :active)`.
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ SELECT * FROM clients WHERE (clients.orders_count IN (1,3,5))
`NOT` SQL queries can be built by `where.not`.
```ruby
-Post.where.not(author: author)
+Article.where.not(author: author)
```
In other words, this query can be generated by calling `where` with no argument, then immediately chain with `not` passing `where` conditions.
@@ -690,32 +690,32 @@ Overriding Conditions
You can specify certain conditions to be removed using the `unscope` method. For example:
```ruby
-Post.where('id > 10').limit(20).order('id asc').except(:order)
+Article.where('id > 10').limit(20).order('id asc').except(:order)
```
The SQL that would be executed:
```sql
-SELECT * FROM posts WHERE id > 10 LIMIT 20
+SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id > 10 LIMIT 20
# Original query without `unscope`
-SELECT * FROM posts WHERE id > 10 ORDER BY id asc LIMIT 20
+SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id > 10 ORDER BY id asc LIMIT 20
```
You can additionally unscope specific where clauses. For example:
```ruby
-Post.where(id: 10, trashed: false).unscope(where: :id)
-# SELECT "posts".* FROM "posts" WHERE trashed = 0
+Article.where(id: 10, trashed: false).unscope(where: :id)
+# SELECT "articles".* FROM "articles" WHERE trashed = 0
```
A relation which has used `unscope` will affect any relation it is
merged in to:
```ruby
-Post.order('id asc').merge(Post.unscope(:order))
-# SELECT "posts".* FROM "posts"
+Article.order('id asc').merge(Article.unscope(:order))
+# SELECT "articles".* FROM "articles"
```
### `only`
@@ -723,16 +723,16 @@ Post.order('id asc').merge(Post.unscope(:order))
You can also override conditions using the `only` method. For example:
```ruby
-Post.where('id > 10').limit(20).order('id desc').only(:order, :where)
+Article.where('id > 10').limit(20).order('id desc').only(:order, :where)
```
The SQL that would be executed:
```sql
-SELECT * FROM posts WHERE id > 10 ORDER BY id DESC
+SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id > 10 ORDER BY id DESC
# Original query without `only`
-SELECT "posts".* FROM "posts" WHERE (id > 10) ORDER BY id desc LIMIT 20
+SELECT "articles".* FROM "articles" WHERE (id > 10) ORDER BY id desc LIMIT 20
```
@@ -741,25 +741,27 @@ SELECT "posts".* FROM "posts" WHERE (id > 10) ORDER BY id desc LIMIT 20
The `reorder` method overrides the default scope order. For example:
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
..
..
has_many :comments, -> { order('posted_at DESC') }
end
-Post.find(10).comments.reorder('name')
+Article.find(10).comments.reorder('name')
```
The SQL that would be executed:
```sql
-SELECT * FROM posts WHERE id = 10 ORDER BY name
+SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id = 10
+SELECT * FROM comments WHERE article_id = 10 ORDER BY name
```
In case the `reorder` clause is not used, the SQL executed would be:
```sql
-SELECT * FROM posts WHERE id = 10 ORDER BY posted_at DESC
+SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id = 10
+SELECT * FROM comments WHERE article_id = 10 ORDER BY posted_at DESC
```
### `reverse_order`
@@ -795,25 +797,25 @@ This method accepts **no** arguments.
The `rewhere` method overrides an existing, named where condition. For example:
```ruby
-Post.where(trashed: true).rewhere(trashed: false)
+Article.where(trashed: true).rewhere(trashed: false)
```
The SQL that would be executed:
```sql
-SELECT * FROM posts WHERE `trashed` = 0
+SELECT * FROM articles WHERE `trashed` = 0
```
In case the `rewhere` clause is not used,
```ruby
-Post.where(trashed: true).where(trashed: false)
+Article.where(trashed: true).where(trashed: false)
```
the SQL executed would be:
```sql
-SELECT * FROM posts WHERE `trashed` = 1 AND `trashed` = 0
+SELECT * FROM articles WHERE `trashed` = 1 AND `trashed` = 0
```
Null Relation
@@ -822,21 +824,21 @@ Null Relation
The `none` method returns a chainable relation with no records. Any subsequent conditions chained to the returned relation will continue generating empty relations. This is useful in scenarios where you need a chainable response to a method or a scope that could return zero results.
```ruby
-Post.none # returns an empty Relation and fires no queries.
+Article.none # returns an empty Relation and fires no queries.
```
```ruby
-# The visible_posts method below is expected to return a Relation.
-@posts = current_user.visible_posts.where(name: params[:name])
+# The visible_articles method below is expected to return a Relation.
+@articles = current_user.visible_articles.where(name: params[:name])
-def visible_posts
+def visible_articles
case role
when 'Country Manager'
- Post.where(country: country)
+ Article.where(country: country)
when 'Reviewer'
- Post.published
+ Article.published
when 'Bad User'
- Post.none # => returning [] or nil breaks the caller code in this case
+ Article.none # => returning [] or nil breaks the caller code in this case
end
end
```
@@ -963,21 +965,21 @@ WARNING: This method only works with `INNER JOIN`.
Active Record lets you use the names of the [associations](association_basics.html) defined on the model as a shortcut for specifying `JOIN` clauses for those associations when using the `joins` method.
-For example, consider the following `Category`, `Post`, `Comment`, `Guest` and `Tag` models:
+For example, consider the following `Category`, `Article`, `Comment`, `Guest` and `Tag` models:
```ruby
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
- has_many :posts
+ has_many :articles
end
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :category
has_many :comments
has_many :tags
end
class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
- belongs_to :post
+ belongs_to :article
has_one :guest
end
@@ -986,7 +988,7 @@ class Guest < ActiveRecord::Base
end
class Tag < ActiveRecord::Base
- belongs_to :post
+ belongs_to :article
end
```
@@ -995,64 +997,64 @@ Now all of the following will produce the expected join queries using `INNER JOI
#### Joining a Single Association
```ruby
-Category.joins(:posts)
+Category.joins(:articles)
```
This produces:
```sql
SELECT categories.* FROM categories
- INNER JOIN posts ON posts.category_id = categories.id
+ INNER JOIN articles ON articles.category_id = categories.id
```
-Or, in English: "return a Category object for all categories with posts". Note that you will see duplicate categories if more than one post has the same category. If you want unique categories, you can use `Category.joins(:posts).uniq`.
+Or, in English: "return a Category object for all categories with articles". Note that you will see duplicate categories if more than one article has the same category. If you want unique categories, you can use `Category.joins(:articles).uniq`.
#### Joining Multiple Associations
```ruby
-Post.joins(:category, :comments)
+Article.joins(:category, :comments)
```
This produces:
```sql
-SELECT posts.* FROM posts
- INNER JOIN categories ON posts.category_id = categories.id
- INNER JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = posts.id
+SELECT articles.* FROM articles
+ INNER JOIN categories ON articles.category_id = categories.id
+ INNER JOIN comments ON comments.article_id = articles.id
```
-Or, in English: "return all posts that have a category and at least one comment". Note again that posts with multiple comments will show up multiple times.
+Or, in English: "return all articles that have a category and at least one comment". Note again that articles with multiple comments will show up multiple times.
#### Joining Nested Associations (Single Level)
```ruby
-Post.joins(comments: :guest)
+Article.joins(comments: :guest)
```
This produces:
```sql
-SELECT posts.* FROM posts
- INNER JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = posts.id
+SELECT articles.* FROM articles
+ INNER JOIN comments ON comments.article_id = articles.id
INNER JOIN guests ON guests.comment_id = comments.id
```
-Or, in English: "return all posts that have a comment made by a guest."
+Or, in English: "return all articles that have a comment made by a guest."
#### Joining Nested Associations (Multiple Level)
```ruby
-Category.joins(posts: [{ comments: :guest }, :tags])
+Category.joins(articles: [{ comments: :guest }, :tags])
```
This produces:
```sql
SELECT categories.* FROM categories
- INNER JOIN posts ON posts.category_id = categories.id
- INNER JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = posts.id
+ INNER JOIN articles ON articles.category_id = categories.id
+ INNER JOIN comments ON comments.article_id = articles.id
INNER JOIN guests ON guests.comment_id = comments.id
- INNER JOIN tags ON tags.post_id = posts.id
+ INNER JOIN tags ON tags.article_id = articles.id
```
### Specifying Conditions on the Joined Tables
@@ -1121,18 +1123,18 @@ Active Record lets you eager load any number of associations with a single `Mode
#### Array of Multiple Associations
```ruby
-Post.includes(:category, :comments)
+Article.includes(:category, :comments)
```
-This loads all the posts and the associated category and comments for each post.
+This loads all the articles and the associated category and comments for each article.
#### Nested Associations Hash
```ruby
-Category.includes(posts: [{ comments: :guest }, :tags]).find(1)
+Category.includes(articles: [{ comments: :guest }, :tags]).find(1)
```
-This will find the category with id 1 and eager load all of the associated posts, the associated posts' tags and comments, and every comment's guest association.
+This will find the category with id 1 and eager load all of the associated articles, the associated articles' tags and comments, and every comment's guest association.
### Specifying Conditions on Eager Loaded Associations
@@ -1141,18 +1143,18 @@ Even though Active Record lets you specify conditions on the eager loaded associ
However if you must do this, you may use `where` as you would normally.
```ruby
-Post.includes(:comments).where("comments.visible" => true)
+Article.includes(:comments).where("comments.visible" => true)
```
This would generate a query which contains a `LEFT OUTER JOIN` whereas the `joins` method would generate one using the `INNER JOIN` function instead.
```ruby
- SELECT "posts"."id" AS t0_r0, ... "comments"."updated_at" AS t1_r5 FROM "posts" LEFT OUTER JOIN "comments" ON "comments"."post_id" = "posts"."id" WHERE (comments.visible = 1)
+ SELECT "articles"."id" AS t0_r0, ... "comments"."updated_at" AS t1_r5 FROM "articles" LEFT OUTER JOIN "comments" ON "comments"."article_id" = "articles"."id" WHERE (comments.visible = 1)
```
If there was no `where` condition, this would generate the normal set of two queries.
-If, in the case of this `includes` query, there were no comments for any posts, all the posts would still be loaded. By using `joins` (an INNER JOIN), the join conditions **must** match, otherwise no records will be returned.
+If, in the case of this `includes` query, there were no comments for any articles, all the articles would still be loaded. By using `joins` (an INNER JOIN), the join conditions **must** match, otherwise no records will be returned.
Scopes
------
@@ -1162,7 +1164,7 @@ Scoping allows you to specify commonly-used queries which can be referenced as m
To define a simple scope, we use the `scope` method inside the class, passing the query that we'd like to run when this scope is called:
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
scope :published, -> { where(published: true) }
end
```
@@ -1170,7 +1172,7 @@ end
This is exactly the same as defining a class method, and which you use is a matter of personal preference:
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
def self.published
where(published: true)
end
@@ -1180,7 +1182,7 @@ end
Scopes are also chainable within scopes:
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
scope :published, -> { where(published: true) }
scope :published_and_commented, -> { published.where("comments_count > 0") }
end
@@ -1189,14 +1191,14 @@ end
To call this `published` scope we can call it on either the class:
```ruby
-Post.published # => [published posts]
+Article.published # => [published articles]
```
-Or on an association consisting of `Post` objects:
+Or on an association consisting of `Article` objects:
```ruby
category = Category.first
-category.posts.published # => [published posts belonging to this category]
+category.articles.published # => [published articles belonging to this category]
```
### Passing in arguments
@@ -1204,7 +1206,7 @@ category.posts.published # => [published posts belonging to this category]
Your scope can take arguments:
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
scope :created_before, ->(time) { where("created_at < ?", time) }
end
```
@@ -1212,13 +1214,13 @@ end
Call the scope as if it were a class method:
```ruby
-Post.created_before(Time.zone.now)
+Article.created_before(Time.zone.now)
```
However, this is just duplicating the functionality that would be provided to you by a class method.
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
def self.created_before(time)
where("created_at < ?", time)
end
@@ -1228,7 +1230,7 @@ end
Using a class method is the preferred way to accept arguments for scopes. These methods will still be accessible on the association objects:
```ruby
-category.posts.created_before(time)
+category.articles.created_before(time)
```
### Applying a default scope
@@ -1591,20 +1593,20 @@ You can also use `any?` and `many?` to check for existence on a model or relatio
```ruby
# via a model
-Post.any?
-Post.many?
+Article.any?
+Article.many?
# via a named scope
-Post.recent.any?
-Post.recent.many?
+Article.recent.any?
+Article.recent.many?
# via a relation
-Post.where(published: true).any?
-Post.where(published: true).many?
+Article.where(published: true).any?
+Article.where(published: true).many?
# via an association
-Post.first.categories.any?
-Post.first.categories.many?
+Article.first.categories.any?
+Article.first.categories.many?
```
Calculations
@@ -1694,19 +1696,26 @@ Running EXPLAIN
You can run EXPLAIN on the queries triggered by relations. For example,
```ruby
-User.where(id: 1).joins(:posts).explain
+User.where(id: 1).joins(:articles).explain
```
may yield
```
-EXPLAIN for: SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` INNER JOIN `posts` ON `posts`.`user_id` = `users`.`id` WHERE `users`.`id` = 1
-+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------------+
-| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
-+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------------+
-| 1 | SIMPLE | users | const | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | const | 1 | |
-| 1 | SIMPLE | posts | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where |
-+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------------+
+EXPLAIN for: SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` INNER JOIN `articles` ON `articles`.`user_id` = `users`.`id` WHERE `users`.`id` = 1
++----+-------------+----------+-------+---------------+
+| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys |
++----+-------------+----------+-------+---------------+
+| 1 | SIMPLE | users | const | PRIMARY |
+| 1 | SIMPLE | articles | ALL | NULL |
++----+-------------+----------+-------+---------------+
++---------+---------+-------+------+-------------+
+| key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
++---------+---------+-------+------+-------------+
+| PRIMARY | 4 | const | 1 | |
+| NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where |
++---------+---------+-------+------+-------------+
+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
```
@@ -1716,15 +1725,15 @@ Active Record performs a pretty printing that emulates the one of the database
shells. So, the same query running with the PostgreSQL adapter would yield instead
```
-EXPLAIN for: SELECT "users".* FROM "users" INNER JOIN "posts" ON "posts"."user_id" = "users"."id" WHERE "users"."id" = 1
+EXPLAIN for: SELECT "users".* FROM "users" INNER JOIN "articles" ON "articles"."user_id" = "users"."id" WHERE "users"."id" = 1
QUERY PLAN
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nested Loop Left Join (cost=0.00..37.24 rows=8 width=0)
- Join Filter: (posts.user_id = users.id)
+ Join Filter: (articles.user_id = users.id)
-> Index Scan using users_pkey on users (cost=0.00..8.27 rows=1 width=4)
Index Cond: (id = 1)
- -> Seq Scan on posts (cost=0.00..28.88 rows=8 width=4)
- Filter: (posts.user_id = 1)
+ -> Seq Scan on articles (cost=0.00..28.88 rows=8 width=4)
+ Filter: (articles.user_id = 1)
(6 rows)
```
@@ -1733,26 +1742,39 @@ may need the results of previous ones. Because of that, `explain` actually
executes the query, and then asks for the query plans. For example,
```ruby
-User.where(id: 1).includes(:posts).explain
+User.where(id: 1).includes(:articles).explain
```
yields
```
EXPLAIN for: SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` = 1
-+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
-| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
-+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
-| 1 | SIMPLE | users | const | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | const | 1 | |
-+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
++----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+
+| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys |
++----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+
+| 1 | SIMPLE | users | const | PRIMARY |
++----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+
++---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
+| key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
++---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
+| PRIMARY | 4 | const | 1 | |
++---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
-EXPLAIN for: SELECT `posts`.* FROM `posts` WHERE `posts`.`user_id` IN (1)
-+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
-| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
-+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
-| 1 | SIMPLE | posts | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where |
-+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
+EXPLAIN for: SELECT `articles`.* FROM `articles` WHERE `articles`.`user_id` IN (1)
++----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+
+| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys |
++----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+
+| 1 | SIMPLE | articles | ALL | NULL |
++----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+
++------+---------+------+------+-------------+
+| key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
++------+---------+------+------+-------------+
+| NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where |
++------+---------+------+------+-------------+
+
+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
```
diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_validations.md b/guides/source/active_record_validations.md
index a483a6dd24..cb459626d5 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_record_validations.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_record_validations.md
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ end
We can see how it works by looking at some `rails console` output:
```ruby
-$ rails console
+$ bin/rails console
>> p = Person.new(name: "John Doe")
=> #<Person id: nil, name: "John Doe", created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>
>> p.new_record?
@@ -1129,15 +1129,15 @@ generating a scaffold, Rails will put some ERB into the `_form.html.erb` that
it generates that displays the full list of errors on that model.
Assuming we have a model that's been saved in an instance variable named
-`@post`, it looks like this:
+`@article`, it looks like this:
```ruby
-<% if @post.errors.any? %>
+<% if @article.errors.any? %>
<div id="error_explanation">
- <h2><%= pluralize(@post.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this post from being saved:</h2>
+ <h2><%= pluralize(@article.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this article from being saved:</h2>
<ul>
- <% @post.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
+ <% @article.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
<li><%= msg %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ the entry.
```
<div class="field_with_errors">
- <input id="post_title" name="post[title]" size="30" type="text" value="">
+ <input id="article_title" name="article[title]" size="30" type="text" value="">
</div>
```
diff --git a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md
index 5a4e15cfa9..4f37bf971a 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md
@@ -572,12 +572,12 @@ NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/module/aliasing.rb`.
#### `alias_attribute`
-Model attributes have a reader, a writer, and a predicate. You can alias a model attribute having the corresponding three methods defined for you in one shot. As in other aliasing methods, the new name is the first argument, and the old name is the second (my mnemonic is they go in the same order as if you did an assignment):
+Model attributes have a reader, a writer, and a predicate. You can alias a model attribute having the corresponding three methods defined for you in one shot. As in other aliasing methods, the new name is the first argument, and the old name is the second (one mnemonic is that they go in the same order as if you did an assignment):
```ruby
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
- # let me refer to the email column as "login",
- # possibly meaningful for authentication code
+ # You can refer to the email column as "login".
+ # This can be meaningful for authentication code.
alias_attribute :login, :email
end
```
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ end
A model may find it useful to set `:instance_accessor` to `false` as a way to prevent mass-assignment from setting the attribute.
-NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/module/attribute_accessors.rb`. `active_support/core_ext/class/attribute_accessors.rb` is deprecated and will be removed in Ruby on Rails 4.2.
+NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/module/attribute_accessors.rb`.
### Subclasses & Descendants
@@ -1768,21 +1768,36 @@ NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb`.
#### `humanize`
-The method `humanize` gives you a sensible name for display out of an attribute name. To do so it replaces underscores with spaces, removes any "_id" suffix, and capitalizes the first word:
+The method `humanize` tweaks an attribute name for display to end users.
+
+Specifically performs these transformations:
+
+ * Applies human inflection rules to the argument.
+ * Deletes leading underscores, if any.
+ * Removes a "_id" suffix if present.
+ * Replaces underscores with spaces, if any.
+ * Downcases all words except acronyms.
+ * Capitalizes the first word.
+
+The capitalization of the first word can be turned off by setting the
++:capitalize+ option to false (default is true).
```ruby
-"name".humanize # => "Name"
-"author_id".humanize # => "Author"
-"comments_count".humanize # => "Comments count"
+"name".humanize # => "Name"
+"author_id".humanize # => "Author"
+"author_id".humanize(capitalize: false) # => "author"
+"comments_count".humanize # => "Comments count"
+"_id".humanize # => "Id"
```
-The capitalization of the first word can be turned off by setting the optional parameter `capitalize` to false:
+If "SSL" was defined to be an acronym:
```ruby
-"author_id".humanize(capitalize: false) # => "author"
+'ssl_error'.humanize # => "SSL error"
```
-The helper method `full_messages` uses `humanize` as a fallback to include attribute names:
+The helper method `full_messages` uses `humanize` as a fallback to include
+attribute names:
```ruby
def full_messages
@@ -3823,7 +3838,7 @@ The name may be given as a symbol or string. A symbol is tested against the bare
TIP: A symbol can represent a fully-qualified constant name as in `:"ActiveRecord::Base"`, so the behavior for symbols is defined for convenience, not because it has to be that way technically.
-For example, when an action of `PostsController` is called Rails tries optimistically to use `PostsHelper`. It is OK that the helper module does not exist, so if an exception for that constant name is raised it should be silenced. But it could be the case that `posts_helper.rb` raises a `NameError` due to an actual unknown constant. That should be reraised. The method `missing_name?` provides a way to distinguish both cases:
+For example, when an action of `ArticlesController` is called Rails tries optimistically to use `ArticlesHelper`. It is OK that the helper module does not exist, so if an exception for that constant name is raised it should be silenced. But it could be the case that `articles_helper.rb` raises a `NameError` due to an actual unknown constant. That should be reraised. The method `missing_name?` provides a way to distinguish both cases:
```ruby
def default_helper_module!
@@ -3846,7 +3861,7 @@ Active Support adds `is_missing?` to `LoadError`, and also assigns that class to
Given a path name `is_missing?` tests whether the exception was raised due to that particular file (except perhaps for the ".rb" extension).
-For example, when an action of `PostsController` is called Rails tries to load `posts_helper.rb`, but that file may not exist. That's fine, the helper module is not mandatory so Rails silences a load error. But it could be the case that the helper module does exist and in turn requires another library that is missing. In that case Rails must reraise the exception. The method `is_missing?` provides a way to distinguish both cases:
+For example, when an action of `ArticlesController` is called Rails tries to load `articles_helper.rb`, but that file may not exist. That's fine, the helper module is not mandatory so Rails silences a load error. But it could be the case that the helper module does exist and in turn requires another library that is missing. In that case Rails must reraise the exception. The method `is_missing?` provides a way to distinguish both cases:
```ruby
def default_helper_module!
diff --git a/guides/source/active_support_instrumentation.md b/guides/source/active_support_instrumentation.md
index 6c77a40d42..7033947468 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_support_instrumentation.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_support_instrumentation.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ After reading this guide, you will know:
Introduction to instrumentation
-------------------------------
-The instrumentation API provided by Active Support allows developers to provide hooks which other developers may hook into. There are several of these within the Rails framework, as described below in <TODO: link to section detailing each hook point>. With this API, developers can choose to be notified when certain events occur inside their application or another piece of Ruby code.
+The instrumentation API provided by Active Support allows developers to provide hooks which other developers may hook into. There are several of these within the Rails framework, as described below in (TODO: link to section detailing each hook point). With this API, developers can choose to be notified when certain events occur inside their application or another piece of Ruby code.
For example, there is a hook provided within Active Record that is called every time Active Record uses an SQL query on a database. This hook could be **subscribed** to, and used to track the number of queries during a certain action. There's another hook around the processing of an action of a controller. This could be used, for instance, to track how long a specific action has taken.
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ INFO. Options passed to fetch will be merged with the payload.
| ------ | --------------------- |
| `:key` | Key used in the store |
-INFO. Cache stores my add their own keys
+INFO. Cache stores may add their own keys
```ruby
{
@@ -457,6 +457,7 @@ Most times you only care about the data itself. Here is a shortcut to just get t
ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe "process_action.action_controller" do |*args|
data = args.extract_options!
data # { extra: :information }
+end
```
You may also subscribe to events matching a regular expression. This enables you to subscribe to
diff --git a/guides/source/api_documentation_guidelines.md b/guides/source/api_documentation_guidelines.md
index 261538d0be..2a3bb4e34d 100644
--- a/guides/source/api_documentation_guidelines.md
+++ b/guides/source/api_documentation_guidelines.md
@@ -110,14 +110,14 @@ The results of expressions follow them and are introduced by "# => ", vertically
If a line is too long, the comment may be placed on the next line:
```ruby
-# label(:post, :title)
-# # => <label for="post_title">Title</label>
+# label(:article, :title)
+# # => <label for="article_title">Title</label>
#
-# label(:post, :title, "A short title")
-# # => <label for="post_title">A short title</label>
+# label(:article, :title, "A short title")
+# # => <label for="article_title">A short title</label>
#
-# label(:post, :title, "A short title", class: "title_label")
-# # => <label for="post_title" class="title_label">A short title</label>
+# label(:article, :title, "A short title", class: "title_label")
+# # => <label for="article_title" class="title_label">A short title</label>
```
Avoid using any printing methods like `puts` or `p` for that purpose.
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ end
The API is careful not to commit to any particular value, the method has
predicate semantics, that's enough.
-Filenames
----------
+File Names
+----------
As a rule of thumb, use filenames relative to the application root:
@@ -286,3 +286,36 @@ self.class_eval %{
end
}
```
+
+Method Visibility
+-----------------
+
+When writing documentation for Rails, it's important to understand the difference between public user-facing API vs internal API.
+
+Rails, like most libraries, uses the private keyword from Ruby for defining internal API. However, public API follows a slightly different convention. Instead of assuming all public methods are designed for user consumption, Rails uses the `:nodoc:` directive to annotate these kinds of methods as internal API.
+
+This means that there are methods in Rails with `public` visibility that aren't meant for user consumption.
+
+An example of this is `ActiveRecord::Core::ClassMethods#arel_table`:
+
+```ruby
+module ActiveRecord::Core::ClassMethods
+ def arel_table #:nodoc:
+ # do some magic..
+ end
+end
+```
+
+If you thought, "this method looks like a public class method for `ActiveRecord::Core`", you were right. But actually the Rails team doesn't want users to rely on this method. So they mark it as `:nodoc:` and it's removed from public documentation. The reasoning behind this is to allow the team to change these methods according to their internal needs across releases as they see fit. The name of this method could change, or the return value, or this entire class may disappear; there's no guarantee and so you shouldn't depend on this API in your plugins or applications. Otherwise, you risk your app or gem breaking when you upgrade to a newer release of Rails.
+
+As a contributor, it's important to think about whether this API is meant for end-user consumption. The Rails team is committed to not making any breaking changes to public API across releases without going through a full deprecation cycle. It's recommended that you `:nodoc:` any of your internal methods/classes unless they're already private (meaning visibility), in which case it's internal by default. Once the API stabilizes the visibility can change, but changing public API is much harder due to backwards compatibility.
+
+A class or module is marked with `:nodoc:` to indicate that all methods are internal API and should never be used directly.
+
+If you come across an existing `:nodoc:` you should tread lightly. Consider asking someone from the core team or author of the code before removing it. This should almost always happen through a pull request instead of the docrails project.
+
+A `:nodoc:` should never be added simply because a method or class is missing documentation. There may be an instance where an internal public method wasn't given a `:nodoc:` by mistake, for example when switching a method from private to public visibility. When this happens it should be discussed over a PR on a case-by-case basis and never committed directly to docrails.
+
+To summarize, the Rails team uses `:nodoc:` to mark publicly visible methods and classes for internal use; changes to the visibility of API should be considered carefully and discussed over a pull request first.
+
+If you have a question on how the Rails team handles certain API, don't hesitate to open a ticket or send a patch to the [issue tracker](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues).
diff --git a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md
index 52fc9726d9..559d3f5e7d 100644
--- a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md
+++ b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md
@@ -198,12 +198,9 @@ will result in your assets being included more than once.
WARNING: When using asset precompilation, you will need to ensure that your
controller assets will be precompiled when loading them on a per page basis. By
-default .coffee and .scss files will not be precompiled on their own. This will
-result in false positives during development as these files will work just fine
-since assets are compiled on the fly in development mode. When running in
-production, however, you will see 500 errors since live compilation is turned
-off by default. See [Precompiling Assets](#precompiling-assets) for more
-information on how precompiling works.
+default .coffee and .scss files will not be precompiled on their own. See
+[Precompiling Assets](#precompiling-assets) for more information on how
+precompiling works.
NOTE: You must have an ExecJS supported runtime in order to use CoffeeScript.
If you are using Mac OS X or Windows, you have a JavaScript runtime installed in
@@ -581,8 +578,21 @@ runtime. To disable this behavior you can set:
config.assets.raise_runtime_errors = false
```
-When this option is true asset pipeline will check if all the assets loaded in your application
-are included in the `config.assets.precompile` list.
+When this option is true, the asset pipeline will check if all the assets loaded
+in your application are included in the `config.assets.precompile` list.
+If `config.assets.digest` is also true, the asset pipeline will require that
+all requests for assets include digests.
+
+### Turning Digests Off
+
+You can turn off digests by updating `config/environments/development.rb` to
+include:
+
+```ruby
+config.assets.digest = false
+```
+
+When this option is true, digests will be generated for asset URLs.
### Turning Debugging Off
@@ -676,7 +686,7 @@ information on compiling locally.
The rake task is:
```bash
-$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile
+$ RAILS_ENV=production bin/rake assets:precompile
```
Capistrano (v2.15.1 and above) includes a recipe to handle this in deployment.
@@ -913,6 +923,14 @@ that it plays nicely with the pipeline. You may find quirks related to your
specific set up, you may not. The defaults nginx uses, for example, should give
you no problems when used as an HTTP cache.
+If you want to serve only some assets from your CDN, you can use custom
+`:host` option of `asset_url` helper, which overwrites value set in
+`config.action_controller.asset_host`.
+
+```ruby
+asset_url 'image.png', :host => 'http://cdn.example.com'
+```
+
Customizing the Pipeline
------------------------
diff --git a/guides/source/association_basics.md b/guides/source/association_basics.md
index df38bd7321..22f6f5e7d6 100644
--- a/guides/source/association_basics.md
+++ b/guides/source/association_basics.md
@@ -1725,58 +1725,58 @@ mostly useful together with the `:through` option.
```ruby
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :readings
- has_many :posts, through: :readings
+ has_many :articles, through: :readings
end
person = Person.create(name: 'John')
-post = Post.create(name: 'a1')
-person.posts << post
-person.posts << post
-person.posts.inspect # => [#<Post id: 5, name: "a1">, #<Post id: 5, name: "a1">]
-Reading.all.inspect # => [#<Reading id: 12, person_id: 5, post_id: 5>, #<Reading id: 13, person_id: 5, post_id: 5>]
+article = Article.create(name: 'a1')
+person.articles << article
+person.articles << article
+person.articles.inspect # => [#<Article id: 5, name: "a1">, #<Article id: 5, name: "a1">]
+Reading.all.inspect # => [#<Reading id: 12, person_id: 5, article_id: 5>, #<Reading id: 13, person_id: 5, article_id: 5>]
```
-In the above case there are two readings and `person.posts` brings out both of
-them even though these records are pointing to the same post.
+In the above case there are two readings and `person.articles` brings out both of
+them even though these records are pointing to the same article.
Now let's set `distinct`:
```ruby
class Person
has_many :readings
- has_many :posts, -> { distinct }, through: :readings
+ has_many :articles, -> { distinct }, through: :readings
end
person = Person.create(name: 'Honda')
-post = Post.create(name: 'a1')
-person.posts << post
-person.posts << post
-person.posts.inspect # => [#<Post id: 7, name: "a1">]
-Reading.all.inspect # => [#<Reading id: 16, person_id: 7, post_id: 7>, #<Reading id: 17, person_id: 7, post_id: 7>]
+article = Article.create(name: 'a1')
+person.articles << article
+person.articles << article
+person.articles.inspect # => [#<Article id: 7, name: "a1">]
+Reading.all.inspect # => [#<Reading id: 16, person_id: 7, article_id: 7>, #<Reading id: 17, person_id: 7, article_id: 7>]
```
-In the above case there are still two readings. However `person.posts` shows
-only one post because the collection loads only unique records.
+In the above case there are still two readings. However `person.articles` shows
+only one article because the collection loads only unique records.
If you want to make sure that, upon insertion, all of the records in the
persisted association are distinct (so that you can be sure that when you
inspect the association that you will never find duplicate records), you should
add a unique index on the table itself. For example, if you have a table named
-`person_posts` and you want to make sure all the posts are unique, you could
+`person_articles` and you want to make sure all the articles are unique, you could
add the following in a migration:
```ruby
-add_index :person_posts, :post, unique: true
+add_index :person_articles, :article, unique: true
```
Note that checking for uniqueness using something like `include?` is subject
to race conditions. Do not attempt to use `include?` to enforce distinctness
-in an association. For instance, using the post example from above, the
+in an association. For instance, using the article example from above, the
following code would be racy because multiple users could be attempting this
at the same time:
```ruby
-person.posts << post unless person.posts.include?(post)
+person.articles << article unless person.articles.include?(article)
```
#### When are Objects Saved?
diff --git a/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md b/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md
index b6423dd44e..c652aa6a80 100644
--- a/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md
+++ b/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ This method generates a cache key that depends on all products and can be used i
<% end %>
```
-If you want to cache a fragment under certain condition you can use `cache_if` or `cache_unless`
+If you want to cache a fragment under certain condition you can use `cache_if` or `cache_unless`
```erb
<% cache_if (condition, cache_key_for_products) do %>
diff --git a/guides/source/command_line.md b/guides/source/command_line.md
index 756c8f8b51..6efc64c385 100644
--- a/guides/source/command_line.md
+++ b/guides/source/command_line.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ With no further work, `rails server` will run our new shiny Rails app:
```bash
$ cd commandsapp
-$ rails server
+$ bin/rails server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 4.0.0 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ INFO: You can also use the alias "s" to start the server: `rails s`.
The server can be run on a different port using the `-p` option. The default development environment can be changed using `-e`.
```bash
-$ rails server -e production -p 4000
+$ bin/rails server -e production -p 4000
```
The `-b` option binds Rails to the specified IP, by default it is 0.0.0.0. You can run a server as a daemon by passing a `-d` option.
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ The `rails generate` command uses templates to create a whole lot of things. Run
INFO: You can also use the alias "g" to invoke the generator command: `rails g`.
```bash
-$ rails generate
+$ bin/rails generate
Usage: rails generate GENERATOR [args] [options]
...
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Let's make our own controller with the controller generator. But what command sh
INFO: All Rails console utilities have help text. As with most *nix utilities, you can try adding `--help` or `-h` to the end, for example `rails server --help`.
```bash
-$ rails generate controller
+$ bin/rails generate controller
Usage: rails generate controller NAME [action action] [options]
...
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Example:
The controller generator is expecting parameters in the form of `generate controller ControllerName action1 action2`. Let's make a `Greetings` controller with an action of **hello**, which will say something nice to us.
```bash
-$ rails generate controller Greetings hello
+$ bin/rails generate controller Greetings hello
create app/controllers/greetings_controller.rb
route get "greetings/hello"
invoke erb
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Then the view, to display our message (in `app/views/greetings/hello.html.erb`):
Fire up your server using `rails server`.
```bash
-$ rails server
+$ bin/rails server
=> Booting WEBrick...
```
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ INFO: With a normal, plain-old Rails application, your URLs will generally follo
Rails comes with a generator for data models too.
```bash
-$ rails generate model
+$ bin/rails generate model
Usage:
rails generate model NAME [field[:type][:index] field[:type][:index]] [options]
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ But instead of generating a model directly (which we'll be doing later), let's s
We will set up a simple resource called "HighScore" that will keep track of our highest score on video games we play.
```bash
-$ rails generate scaffold HighScore game:string score:integer
+$ bin/rails generate scaffold HighScore game:string score:integer
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20130717151933_create_high_scores.rb
create app/models/high_score.rb
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ The generator checks that there exist the directories for models, controllers, h
The migration requires that we **migrate**, that is, run some Ruby code (living in that `20130717151933_create_high_scores.rb`) to modify the schema of our database. Which database? The SQLite3 database that Rails will create for you when we run the `rake db:migrate` command. We'll talk more about Rake in-depth in a little while.
```bash
-$ rake db:migrate
+$ bin/rake db:migrate
== CreateHighScores: migrating ===============================================
-- create_table(:high_scores)
-> 0.0017s
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ INFO: Let's talk about unit tests. Unit tests are code that tests and makes asse
Let's see the interface Rails created for us.
```bash
-$ rails server
+$ bin/rails server
```
Go to your browser and open [http://localhost:3000/high_scores](http://localhost:3000/high_scores), now we can create new high scores (55,160 on Space Invaders!)
@@ -283,13 +283,13 @@ INFO: You can also use the alias "c" to invoke the console: `rails c`.
You can specify the environment in which the `console` command should operate.
```bash
-$ rails console staging
+$ bin/rails console staging
```
If you wish to test out some code without changing any data, you can do that by invoking `rails console --sandbox`.
```bash
-$ rails console --sandbox
+$ bin/rails console --sandbox
Loading development environment in sandbox (Rails 4.0.0)
Any modifications you make will be rolled back on exit
irb(main):001:0>
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ INFO: You can also use the alias "db" to invoke the dbconsole: `rails db`.
`runner` runs Ruby code in the context of Rails non-interactively. For instance:
```bash
-$ rails runner "Model.long_running_method"
+$ bin/rails runner "Model.long_running_method"
```
INFO: You can also use the alias "r" to invoke the runner: `rails r`.
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ INFO: You can also use the alias "r" to invoke the runner: `rails r`.
You can specify the environment in which the `runner` command should operate using the `-e` switch.
```bash
-$ rails runner -e staging "Model.long_running_method"
+$ bin/rails runner -e staging "Model.long_running_method"
```
### `rails destroy`
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Think of `destroy` as the opposite of `generate`. It'll figure out what generate
INFO: You can also use the alias "d" to invoke the destroy command: `rails d`.
```bash
-$ rails generate model Oops
+$ bin/rails generate model Oops
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20120528062523_create_oops.rb
create app/models/oops.rb
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ $ rails generate model Oops
create test/fixtures/oops.yml
```
```bash
-$ rails destroy model Oops
+$ bin/rails destroy model Oops
invoke active_record
remove db/migrate/20120528062523_create_oops.rb
remove app/models/oops.rb
@@ -353,9 +353,10 @@ To get the full backtrace for running rake task you can pass the option
```--trace``` to command line, for example ```rake db:create --trace```.
```bash
-$ rake --tasks
+$ bin/rake --tasks
rake about # List versions of all Rails frameworks and the environment
-rake assets:clean # Remove compiled assets
+rake assets:clean # Remove old compiled assets
+rake assets:clobber # Remove compiled assets
rake assets:precompile # Compile all the assets named in config.assets.precompile
rake db:create # Create the database from config/database.yml for the current Rails.env
...
@@ -372,18 +373,18 @@ INFO: You can also use ```rake -T``` to get the list of tasks.
`rake about` gives information about version numbers for Ruby, RubyGems, Rails, the Rails subcomponents, your application's folder, the current Rails environment name, your app's database adapter, and schema version. It is useful when you need to ask for help, check if a security patch might affect you, or when you need some stats for an existing Rails installation.
```bash
-$ rake about
+$ bin/rake about
About your application's environment
Ruby version 1.9.3 (x86_64-linux)
RubyGems version 1.3.6
Rack version 1.3
-Rails version 4.1.0
+Rails version 4.1.1
JavaScript Runtime Node.js (V8)
-Active Record version 4.1.0
-Action Pack version 4.1.0
-Action View version 4.1.0
-Action Mailer version 4.1.0
-Active Support version 4.1.0
+Active Record version 4.1.1
+Action Pack version 4.1.1
+Action View version 4.1.1
+Action Mailer version 4.1.1
+Active Support version 4.1.1
Middleware Rack::Sendfile, ActionDispatch::Static, Rack::Lock, #<ActiveSupport::Cache::Strategy::LocalCache::Middleware:0x007ffd131a7c88>, Rack::Runtime, Rack::MethodOverride, ActionDispatch::RequestId, Rails::Rack::Logger, ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions, ActionDispatch::DebugExceptions, ActionDispatch::RemoteIp, ActionDispatch::Reloader, ActionDispatch::Callbacks, ActiveRecord::Migration::CheckPending, ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionManagement, ActiveRecord::QueryCache, ActionDispatch::Cookies, ActionDispatch::Session::CookieStore, ActionDispatch::Flash, ActionDispatch::ParamsParser, Rack::Head, Rack::ConditionalGet, Rack::ETag
Application root /home/foobar/commandsapp
Environment development
@@ -393,7 +394,12 @@ Database schema version 20110805173523
### `assets`
-You can precompile the assets in `app/assets` using `rake assets:precompile` and remove those compiled assets using `rake assets:clean`.
+You can precompile the assets in `app/assets` using `rake assets:precompile`,
+and remove older compiled assets using `rake assets:clean`. The `assets:clean`
+task allows for rolling deploys that may still be linking to an old asset while
+the new assets are being built.
+
+If you want to clear `public/assets` completely, you can use `rake assets:clobber`.
### `db`
@@ -414,7 +420,7 @@ The `doc:` namespace has the tools to generate documentation for your app, API d
`rake notes` will search through your code for comments beginning with FIXME, OPTIMIZE or TODO. The search is done in files with extension `.builder`, `.rb`, `.rake`, `.yml`, `.yaml`, `.ruby`, `.css`, `.js` and `.erb` for both default and custom annotations.
```bash
-$ rake notes
+$ bin/rake notes
(in /home/foobar/commandsapp)
app/controllers/admin/users_controller.rb:
* [ 20] [TODO] any other way to do this?
@@ -434,7 +440,7 @@ config.annotations.register_extensions("scss", "sass", "less") { |annotation| /\
If you are looking for a specific annotation, say FIXME, you can use `rake notes:fixme`. Note that you have to lower case the annotation's name.
```bash
-$ rake notes:fixme
+$ bin/rake notes:fixme
(in /home/foobar/commandsapp)
app/controllers/admin/users_controller.rb:
* [132] high priority for next deploy
@@ -446,9 +452,9 @@ app/models/school.rb:
You can also use custom annotations in your code and list them using `rake notes:custom` by specifying the annotation using an environment variable `ANNOTATION`.
```bash
-$ rake notes:custom ANNOTATION=BUG
+$ bin/rake notes:custom ANNOTATION=BUG
(in /home/foobar/commandsapp)
-app/models/post.rb:
+app/models/article.rb:
* [ 23] Have to fix this one before pushing!
```
@@ -458,7 +464,7 @@ By default, `rake notes` will look in the `app`, `config`, `lib`, `bin` and `tes
```bash
$ export SOURCE_ANNOTATION_DIRECTORIES='spec,vendor'
-$ rake notes
+$ bin/rake notes
(in /home/foobar/commandsapp)
app/models/user.rb:
* [ 35] [FIXME] User should have a subscription at this point
@@ -530,9 +536,9 @@ end
Invocation of the tasks will look like:
```bash
-rake task_name
-rake "task_name[value 1]" # entire argument string should be quoted
-rake db:nothing
+$ bin/rake task_name
+$ bin/rake "task_name[value 1]" # entire argument string should be quoted
+$ bin/rake db:nothing
```
NOTE: If your need to interact with your application models, perform database queries and so on, your task should depend on the `environment` task, which will load your application code.
diff --git a/guides/source/configuring.md b/guides/source/configuring.md
index ae382fc54d..7a9e1beb23 100644
--- a/guides/source/configuring.md
+++ b/guides/source/configuring.md
@@ -388,13 +388,13 @@ encrypted cookies salt value. Defaults to `'signed encrypted cookie'`.
* `config.action_view.embed_authenticity_token_in_remote_forms` allows you to set the default behavior for `authenticity_token` in forms with `:remote => true`. By default it's set to false, which means that remote forms will not include `authenticity_token`, which is helpful when you're fragment-caching the form. Remote forms get the authenticity from the `meta` tag, so embedding is unnecessary unless you support browsers without JavaScript. In such case you can either pass `:authenticity_token => true` as a form option or set this config setting to `true`
-* `config.action_view.prefix_partial_path_with_controller_namespace` determines whether or not partials are looked up from a subdirectory in templates rendered from namespaced controllers. For example, consider a controller named `Admin::PostsController` which renders this template:
+* `config.action_view.prefix_partial_path_with_controller_namespace` determines whether or not partials are looked up from a subdirectory in templates rendered from namespaced controllers. For example, consider a controller named `Admin::ArticlesController` which renders this template:
```erb
- <%= render @post %>
+ <%= render @article %>
```
- The default setting is `true`, which uses the partial at `/admin/posts/_post.erb`. Setting the value to `false` would render `/posts/_post.erb`, which is the same behavior as rendering from a non-namespaced controller such as `PostsController`.
+ The default setting is `true`, which uses the partial at `/admin/articles/_article.erb`. Setting the value to `false` would render `/articles/_article.erb`, which is the same behavior as rendering from a non-namespaced controller such as `ArticlesController`.
* `config.action_view.raise_on_missing_translations` determines whether an error should be raised for missing translations
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ development:
$ echo $DATABASE_URL
postgresql://localhost/my_database
-$ rails runner 'puts ActiveRecord::Base.connections'
+$ bin/rails runner 'puts ActiveRecord::Base.connections'
{"development"=>{"adapter"=>"postgresql", "host"=>"localhost", "database"=>"my_database"}}
```
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ development:
$ echo $DATABASE_URL
postgresql://localhost/my_database
-$ rails runner 'puts ActiveRecord::Base.connections'
+$ bin/rails runner 'puts ActiveRecord::Base.connections'
{"development"=>{"adapter"=>"postgresql", "host"=>"localhost", "database"=>"my_database", "pool"=>5}}
```
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ development:
$ echo $DATABASE_URL
postgresql://localhost/my_database
-$ rails runner 'puts ActiveRecord::Base.connections'
+$ bin/rails runner 'puts ActiveRecord::Base.connections'
{"development"=>{"adapter"=>"sqlite3", "database"=>"NOT_my_database"}}
```
@@ -729,13 +729,47 @@ Rails will now prepend "/app1" when generating links.
#### Using Passenger
-Passenger makes it easy to run your application in a subdirectory. You can find
-the relevant configuration in the
-[passenger manual](http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#deploying_rails_to_sub_uri).
+Passenger makes it easy to run your application in a subdirectory. You can find the relevant configuration in the [passenger manual](http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#deploying_rails_to_sub_uri).
#### Using a Reverse Proxy
-TODO
+Deploying your application using a reverse proxy has definite advantages over traditional deploys. They allow you to have more control over your server by layering the components required by your application.
+
+Many modern web servers can be used as a proxy server to balance third-party elements such as caching servers or application servers.
+
+One such application server you can use is [Unicorn](http://unicorn.bogomips.org/) to run behind a reverse proxy.
+
+In this case, you would need to configure the proxy server (nginx, apache, etc) to accept connections from your application server (Unicorn). By default Unicorn will listen for TCP connections on port 8080, but you can change the port or configure it to use sockets instead.
+
+You can find more information in the [Unicorn readme](http://unicorn.bogomips.org/README.html) and understand the [philosophy](http://unicorn.bogomips.org/PHILOSOPHY.html) behind it.
+
+Once you've configured the application server, you must proxy requests to it by configuring your web server appropriately. For example your nginx config may include:
+
+```
+upstream application_server {
+ server 0.0.0.0:8080
+}
+
+server {
+ listen 80;
+ server_name localhost;
+
+ root /root/path/to/your_app/public;
+
+ try_files $uri/index.html $uri.html @app;
+
+ location @app {
+ proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+ proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
+ proxy_redirect off;
+ proxy_pass http://application_server;
+ }
+
+ # some other configuration
+}
+```
+
+Be sure to read the [nginx documentation](http://nginx.org/en/docs/) for the most up-to-date information.
#### Considerations when deploying to a subdirectory
diff --git a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md
index 28e1172274..133ef58fd6 100644
--- a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md
+++ b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ WARNING: Docrails has a very strict policy: no code can be touched whatsoever, n
Contributing to the Rails Code
------------------------------
-### Setting Up a Development Environment ###
+### Setting Up a Development Environment
To move on from submitting bugs to helping resolve existing issues or contributing your own code to Ruby on Rails, you _must_ be able to run its test suite. In this section of the guide you'll learn how to setup the tests on your own computer.
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ The easiest and recommended way to get a development environment ready to hack i
In case you can't use the Rails development box, see [this other guide](development_dependencies_install.html).
-### Clone the Rails Repository ###
+### Clone the Rails Repository
To be able to contribute code, you need to clone the Rails repository:
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ $ git checkout -b my_new_branch
It doesn't matter much what name you use, because this branch will only exist on your local computer and your personal repository on GitHub. It won't be part of the Rails Git repository.
-### Running an Application Against Your Local Branch ###
+### Running an Application Against Your Local Branch
In case you need a dummy Rails app to test changes, the `--dev` flag of `rails new` generates an application that uses your local branch:
@@ -185,9 +185,9 @@ $ bundle exec rails new ~/my-test-app --dev
The application generated in `~/my-test-app` runs against your local branch
and in particular sees any modifications upon server reboot.
-### Write Your Code ###
+### Write Your Code
-Now get busy and add/edit code. You're on your branch now, so you can write whatever you want (you can check to make sure you're on the right branch with `git branch -a`). But if you're planning to submit your change back for inclusion in Rails, keep a few things in mind:
+Now get busy and add/edit code. You're on your branch now, so you can write whatever you want (make sure you're on the right branch with `git branch -a`). But if you're planning to submit your change back for inclusion in Rails, keep a few things in mind:
* Get the code right.
* Use Rails idioms and helpers.
@@ -215,7 +215,38 @@ Rails follows a simple set of coding style conventions:
The above are guidelines - please use your best judgment in using them.
-### Running Tests ###
+### Benchmark Your Code
+
+If your change has an impact on the performance of Rails, please use the
+[benchmark-ips](https://github.com/evanphx/benchmark-ips) gem to provide
+benchmark results for comparison.
+
+Here's an example of using benchmark-ips:
+
+```ruby
+require 'benchmark/ips'
+
+Benchmark.ips do |x|
+ x.report('addition') { 1 + 2 }
+ x.report('addition with send') { 1.send(:+, 2) }
+end
+```
+
+This will generate a report with the following information:
+
+```
+Calculating -------------------------------------
+ addition 69114 i/100ms
+ addition with send 64062 i/100ms
+-------------------------------------------------
+ addition 5307644.4 (±3.5%) i/s - 26539776 in 5.007219s
+ addition with send 3702897.9 (±3.5%) i/s - 18513918 in 5.006723s
+```
+
+Please see the benchmark/ips [README](https://github.com/evanphx/benchmark-ips/blob/master/README.md) for more information.
+
+### Running Tests
+
It is not customary in Rails to run the full test suite before pushing
changes. The railties test suite in particular takes a long time, and even
more if the source code is mounted in `/vagrant` as happens in the recommended
@@ -228,35 +259,51 @@ tests are passing, that's enough to propose your contribution. We have
unexpected breakages elsewhere.
#### Entire Rails:
+
To run all the tests, do:
+
```bash
$ cd rails
$ bundle exec rake test
```
-#### Particular component of Rails
-To run tests only for particular component(ActionPack, ActiveRecord, etc.). For
-example, to run `ActionMailer` tests you can:
+
+#### For a Particular Component
+
+You can run tests only for a particular component (e.g. Action Pack). For example,
+to run Action Mailer tests:
```bash
$ cd actionmailer
$ bundle exec rake test
```
+#### Running a Single Test
+
+You can run a single test through ruby. For instance:
+
+```bash
+$ cd actionmailer
+$ ruby -w -Itest test/mail_layout_test.rb -n test_explicit_class_layout
+```
+
+The `-n` option allows you to run a single method instead of the whole
+file.
+
##### Testing Active Record
This is how you run the Active Record test suite only for SQLite3:
```bash
$ cd activerecord
-$ bundle exec rake test_sqlite3
+$ bundle exec rake test:sqlite3
```
You can now run the tests as you did for `sqlite3`. The tasks are respectively
```bash
-test_mysql
-test_mysql2
-test_postgresql
+test:mysql
+test:mysql2
+test:postgresql
```
Finally,
@@ -275,15 +322,7 @@ $ ARCONN=sqlite3 ruby -Itest test/cases/associations/has_many_associations_test.
You can invoke `test_jdbcmysql`, `test_jdbcsqlite3` or `test_jdbcpostgresql` also. See the file `activerecord/RUNNING_UNIT_TESTS.rdoc` for information on running more targeted database tests, or the file `ci/travis.rb` for the test suite run by the continuous integration server.
-#### Single Test separately
-to run just one test. For example, to run `LayoutMailerTest` you can:
-
-```bash
-$ cd actionmailer
-$ ruby -w -Ilib:test test/mail_layout_test.rb
-```
-
-### Warnings ###
+### Warnings
The test suite runs with warnings enabled. Ideally, Ruby on Rails should issue no warnings, but there may be a few, as well as some from third-party libraries. Please ignore (or fix!) them, if any, and submit patches that do not issue new warnings.
@@ -292,7 +331,8 @@ If you are sure about what you are doing and would like to have a more clear out
```bash
$ RUBYOPT=-W0 bundle exec rake test
```
-### Updating the CHANGELOG ###
+
+### Updating the CHANGELOG
The CHANGELOG is an important part of every release. It keeps the list of changes for every Rails version.
@@ -317,7 +357,7 @@ A CHANGELOG entry should summarize what was changed and should end with author's
Your name can be added directly after the last word if you don't provide any code examples or don't need multiple paragraphs. Otherwise, it's best to make as a new paragraph.
-### Sanity Check ###
+### Sanity Check
You should not be the only person who looks at the code before you submit it.
If you know someone else who uses Rails, try asking them if they'll check out
@@ -327,7 +367,7 @@ private before you push a patch out publicly is the "smoke test" for a patch:
if you can't convince one other developer of the beauty of your code, you’re
unlikely to convince the core team either.
-### Commit Your Changes ###
+### Commit Your Changes
When you're happy with the code on your computer, you need to commit the changes to Git:
@@ -351,9 +391,9 @@ it should not be necessary to visit a webpage to check the history.
Description can have multiple paragraphs and you can use code examples
inside, just indent it with 4 spaces:
- class PostsController
+ class ArticlesController
def index
- respond_with Post.limit(10)
+ respond_with Article.limit(10)
end
end
@@ -367,7 +407,7 @@ You can also add bullet points:
TIP. Please squash your commits into a single commit when appropriate. This simplifies future cherry picks, and also keeps the git log clean.
-### Update Your Branch ###
+### Update Your Branch
It's pretty likely that other changes to master have happened while you were working. Go get them:
@@ -385,7 +425,7 @@ $ git rebase master
No conflicts? Tests still pass? Change still seems reasonable to you? Then move on.
-### Fork ###
+### Fork
Navigate to the Rails [GitHub repository](https://github.com/rails/rails) and press "Fork" in the upper right hand corner.
@@ -515,14 +555,13 @@ $ git push origin my_pull_request -f
You should be able to refresh the pull request on GitHub and see that it has
been updated.
+### Older Versions of Ruby on Rails
-### Older Versions of Ruby on Rails ###
-
-If you want to add a fix to older versions of Ruby on Rails, you'll need to set up and switch to your own local tracking branch. Here is an example to switch to the 3-0-stable branch:
+If you want to add a fix to older versions of Ruby on Rails, you'll need to set up and switch to your own local tracking branch. Here is an example to switch to the 4-0-stable branch:
```bash
-$ git branch --track 3-0-stable origin/3-0-stable
-$ git checkout 3-0-stable
+$ git branch --track 4-0-stable origin/4-0-stable
+$ git checkout 4-0-stable
```
TIP: You may want to [put your Git branch name in your shell prompt](http://qugstart.com/blog/git-and-svn/add-colored-git-branch-name-to-your-shell-prompt/) to make it easier to remember which version of the code you're working with.
diff --git a/guides/source/debugging_rails_applications.md b/guides/source/debugging_rails_applications.md
index b067d9efb7..5f738b76af 100644
--- a/guides/source/debugging_rails_applications.md
+++ b/guides/source/debugging_rails_applications.md
@@ -26,17 +26,17 @@ One common task is to inspect the contents of a variable. In Rails, you can do t
The `debug` helper will return a \<pre> tag that renders the object using the YAML format. This will generate human-readable data from any object. For example, if you have this code in a view:
```html+erb
-<%= debug @post %>
+<%= debug @article %>
<p>
<b>Title:</b>
- <%= @post.title %>
+ <%= @article.title %>
</p>
```
You'll see something like this:
```yaml
---- !ruby/object:Post
+--- !ruby/object Article
attributes:
updated_at: 2008-09-05 22:55:47
body: It's a very helpful guide for debugging your Rails app.
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ Title: Rails debugging guide
Displaying an instance variable, or any other object or method, in YAML format can be achieved this way:
```html+erb
-<%= simple_format @post.to_yaml %>
+<%= simple_format @article.to_yaml %>
<p>
<b>Title:</b>
- <%= @post.title %>
+ <%= @article.title %>
</p>
```
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ The `to_yaml` method converts the method to YAML format leaving it more readable
As a result of this, you will have something like this in your view:
```yaml
---- !ruby/object:Post
+--- !ruby/object Article
attributes:
updated_at: 2008-09-05 22:55:47
body: It's a very helpful guide for debugging your Rails app.
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Another useful method for displaying object values is `inspect`, especially when
<%= [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].inspect %>
<p>
<b>Title:</b>
- <%= @post.title %>
+ <%= @article.title %>
</p>
```
@@ -153,18 +153,18 @@ logger.fatal "Terminating application, raised unrecoverable error!!!"
Here's an example of a method instrumented with extra logging:
```ruby
-class PostsController < ApplicationController
+class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
# ...
def create
- @post = Post.new(params[:post])
- logger.debug "New post: #{@post.attributes.inspect}"
- logger.debug "Post should be valid: #{@post.valid?}"
-
- if @post.save
- flash[:notice] = 'Post was successfully created.'
- logger.debug "The post was saved and now the user is going to be redirected..."
- redirect_to(@post)
+ @article = Article.new(params[:article])
+ logger.debug "New article: #{@article.attributes.inspect}"
+ logger.debug Article should be valid: #{@article.valid?}"
+
+ if @article.save
+ flash[:notice] = Article was successfully created.'
+ logger.debug "The article was saved and now the user is going to be redirected..."
+ redirect_to(@article)
else
render action: "new"
end
@@ -177,21 +177,20 @@ end
Here's an example of the log generated when this controller action is executed:
```
-Processing PostsController#create (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-09-08 11:52:54) [POST]
+Processing ArticlesController#create (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-09-08 11:52:54) [POST]
Session ID: BAh7BzoMY3NyZl9pZCIlMDY5MWU1M2I1ZDRjODBlMzkyMWI1OTg2NWQyNzViZjYiCmZsYXNoSUM6J0FjdGl
vbkNvbnRyb2xsZXI6OkZsYXNoOjpGbGFzaEhhc2h7AAY6CkB1c2VkewA=--b18cd92fba90eacf8137e5f6b3b06c4d724596a4
- Parameters: {"commit"=>"Create", "post"=>{"title"=>"Debugging Rails",
+ Parameters: {"commit"=>"Create", "article"=>{"title"=>"Debugging Rails",
"body"=>"I'm learning how to print in logs!!!", "published"=>"0"},
- "authenticity_token"=>"2059c1286e93402e389127b1153204e0d1e275dd", "action"=>"create", "controller"=>"posts"}
-New post: {"updated_at"=>nil, "title"=>"Debugging Rails", "body"=>"I'm learning how to print in logs!!!",
- "published"=>false, "created_at"=>nil}
-Post should be valid: true
- Post Create (0.000443) INSERT INTO "posts" ("updated_at", "title", "body", "published",
+ "authenticity_token"=>"2059c1286e93402e389127b1153204e0d1e275dd", "action"=>"create", "controller"=>"articles"}
+New article: {"updated_at"=>nil, "title"=>"Debugging Rails", "body"=>"I'm learning how to print in logs!!!",
+ "published"=>false, "created_at"=>nil} Article should be valid: true
+ Article Create (0.000443) INSERT INTO "articles" ("updated_at", "title", "body", "published",
"created_at") VALUES('2008-09-08 14:52:54', 'Debugging Rails',
'I''m learning how to print in logs!!!', 'f', '2008-09-08 14:52:54')
-The post was saved and now the user is going to be redirected...
-Redirected to #<Post:0x20af760>
-Completed in 0.01224 (81 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00044 (3%) | 302 Found [http://localhost/posts]
+The article was saved and now the user is going to be redirected...
+Redirected to # Article:0x20af760>
+Completed in 0.01224 (81 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00044 (3%) | 302 Found [http://localhost/articles]
```
Adding extra logging like this makes it easy to search for unexpected or unusual behavior in your logs. If you add extra logging, be sure to make sensible use of log levels to avoid filling your production logs with useless trivia.
@@ -286,17 +285,17 @@ Before the prompt, the code around the line that is about to be run will be
displayed and the current line will be marked by '=>'. Like this:
```
-[1, 10] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
+[1, 10] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
3:
- 4: # GET /posts
- 5: # GET /posts.json
+ 4: # GET /articles
+ 5: # GET /articles.json
6: def index
7: byebug
-=> 8: @posts = Post.find_recent
+=> 8: @articles = Article.find_recent
9:
10: respond_to do |format|
11: format.html # index.html.erb
- 12: format.json { render json: @posts }
+ 12: format.json { render json: @articles }
(byebug)
```
@@ -309,7 +308,7 @@ For example:
```bash
=> Booting WEBrick
-=> Rails 4.1.0 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
+=> Rails 4.1.1 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Run `rails server -h` for more startup options
=> Notice: server is listening on all interfaces (0.0.0.0). Consider using 127.0.0.1 (--binding option)
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
@@ -320,19 +319,19 @@ For example:
Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-04-11 13:11:48 +0200
ActiveRecord::SchemaMigration Load (0.2ms) SELECT "schema_migrations".* FROM "schema_migrations"
-Processing by PostsController#index as HTML
+Processing by ArticlesController#index as HTML
-[3, 12] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
+[3, 12] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
3:
- 4: # GET /posts
- 5: # GET /posts.json
+ 4: # GET /articles
+ 5: # GET /articles.json
6: def index
7: byebug
-=> 8: @posts = Post.find_recent
+=> 8: @articles = Article.find_recent
9:
10: respond_to do |format|
11: format.html # index.html.erb
- 12: format.json { render json: @posts }
+ 12: format.json { render json: @articles }
(byebug)
```
@@ -365,15 +364,15 @@ To see the previous ten lines you should type `list-` (or `l-`)
```
(byebug) l-
-[1, 10] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
- 1 class PostsController < ApplicationController
- 2 before_action :set_post, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
+[1, 10] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
+ 1 class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
+ 2 before_action :set_article, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
3
- 4 # GET /posts
- 5 # GET /posts.json
+ 4 # GET /articles
+ 5 # GET /articles.json
6 def index
7 byebug
- 8 @posts = Post.find_recent
+ 8 @articles = Article.find_recent
9
10 respond_to do |format|
@@ -386,17 +385,17 @@ the code again you can type `list=`
```
(byebug) list=
-[3, 12] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
+[3, 12] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
3:
- 4: # GET /posts
- 5: # GET /posts.json
+ 4: # GET /articles
+ 5: # GET /articles.json
6: def index
7: byebug
-=> 8: @posts = Post.find_recent
+=> 8: @articles = Article.find_recent
9:
10: respond_to do |format|
11: format.html # index.html.erb
- 12: format.json { render json: @posts }
+ 12: format.json { render json: @articles }
(byebug)
```
@@ -419,14 +418,14 @@ then `backtrace` will supply the answer.
```
(byebug) where
---> #0 PostsController.index
- at /PathTo/project/test_app/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:8
+--> #0 ArticlesController.index
+ at /PathTo/project/test_app/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb:8
#1 ActionController::ImplicitRender.send_action(method#String, *args#Array)
- at /PathToGems/actionpack-4.1.0/lib/action_controller/metal/implicit_render.rb:4
+ at /PathToGems/actionpack-4.1.1/lib/action_controller/metal/implicit_render.rb:4
#2 AbstractController::Base.process_action(action#NilClass, *args#Array)
- at /PathToGems/actionpack-4.1.0/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:189
+ at /PathToGems/actionpack-4.1.1/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:189
#3 ActionController::Rendering.process_action(action#NilClass, *args#NilClass)
- at /PathToGems/actionpack-4.1.0/lib/action_controller/metal/rendering.rb:10
+ at /PathToGems/actionpack-4.1.1/lib/action_controller/metal/rendering.rb:10
...
```
@@ -438,7 +437,7 @@ context.
```
(byebug) frame 2
-[184, 193] in /PathToGems/actionpack-4.1.0/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb
+[184, 193] in /PathToGems/actionpack-4.1.1/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb
184: # is the intended way to override action dispatching.
185: #
186: # Notice that the first argument is the method to be dispatched
@@ -487,17 +486,17 @@ This example shows how you can print the instance variables defined within the
current context:
```
-[3, 12] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
+[3, 12] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
3:
- 4: # GET /posts
- 5: # GET /posts.json
+ 4: # GET /articles
+ 5: # GET /articles.json
6: def index
7: byebug
-=> 8: @posts = Post.find_recent
+=> 8: @articles = Article.find_recent
9:
10: respond_to do |format|
11: format.html # index.html.erb
- 12: format.json { render json: @posts }
+ 12: format.json { render json: @articles }
(byebug) instance_variables
[:@_action_has_layout, :@_routes, :@_headers, :@_status, :@_request,
@@ -512,15 +511,15 @@ command later in this guide).
```
(byebug) next
-[5, 14] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
- 5 # GET /posts.json
+[5, 14] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
+ 5 # GET /articles.json
6 def index
7 byebug
- 8 @posts = Post.find_recent
+ 8 @articles = Article.find_recent
9
=> 10 respond_to do |format|
11 format.html # index.html.erb
- 12 format.json { render json: @posts }
+ 12 format.json { render json: @articles }
13 end
14 end
15
@@ -530,11 +529,11 @@ command later in this guide).
And then ask again for the instance_variables:
```
-(byebug) instance_variables.include? "@posts"
+(byebug) instance_variables.include? "@articles"
true
```
-Now `@posts` is included in the instance variables, because the line defining it
+Now `@articles` is included in the instance variables, because the line defining it
was executed.
TIP: You can also step into **irb** mode with the command `irb` (of course!).
@@ -564,7 +563,7 @@ example, to check that we have no local variables currently defined.
You can also inspect for an object method this way:
```
-(byebug) var instance Post.new
+(byebug) var instance Article.new
@_start_transaction_state = {}
@aggregation_cache = {}
@association_cache = {}
@@ -581,8 +580,8 @@ You can use also `display` to start watching variables. This is a good way of
tracking the values of a variable while the execution goes on.
```
-(byebug) display @posts
-1: @posts = nil
+(byebug) display @articles
+1: @articles = nil
```
The variables inside the displaying list will be printed with their values after
@@ -611,10 +610,10 @@ For example, consider the following situation:
```ruby
Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-04-11 13:39:23 +0200
-Processing by PostsController#index as HTML
+Processing by ArticlesController#index as HTML
-[1, 8] in /home/davidr/Proyectos/test_app/app/models/post.rb
- 1: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+[1, 8] in /home/davidr/Proyectos/test_app/app/models/article.rb
+ 1: class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
2:
3: def self.find_recent(limit = 10)
4: byebug
@@ -634,15 +633,15 @@ the method, so `byebug` will jump to next next line of the previous frame.
(byebug) next
Next went up a frame because previous frame finished
-[4, 13] in /PathTo/project/test_app/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
- 4: # GET /posts
- 5: # GET /posts.json
+[4, 13] in /PathTo/project/test_app/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
+ 4: # GET /articles
+ 5: # GET /articles.json
6: def index
- 7: @posts = Post.find_recent
+ 7: @articles = Article.find_recent
8:
=> 9: respond_to do |format|
10: format.html # index.html.erb
- 11: format.json { render json: @posts }
+ 11: format.json { render json: @articles }
12: end
13: end
@@ -655,7 +654,7 @@ instruction to be executed. In this case, the activesupport's `week` method.
```
(byebug) step
-[50, 59] in /PathToGems/activesupport-4.1.0/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb
+[50, 59] in /PathToGems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb
50: ActiveSupport::Duration.new(self * 24.hours, [[:days, self]])
51: end
52: alias :day :days
@@ -693,20 +692,20 @@ _expression_ works the same way as with file:line.
For example, in the previous situation
```
-[4, 13] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
- 4: # GET /posts
- 5: # GET /posts.json
+[4, 13] in /PathTo/project/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
+ 4: # GET /articles
+ 5: # GET /articles.json
6: def index
- 7: @posts = Post.find_recent
+ 7: @articles = Article.find_recent
8:
=> 9: respond_to do |format|
10: format.html # index.html.erb
- 11: format.json { render json: @posts }
+ 11: format.json { render json: @articles }
12: end
13: end
(byebug) break 11
-Created breakpoint 1 at /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:11
+Created breakpoint 1 at /PathTo/project/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb:11
```
@@ -716,7 +715,7 @@ supply a number, it lists that breakpoint. Otherwise it lists all breakpoints.
```
(byebug) info breakpoints
Num Enb What
-1 y at /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:11
+1 y at /PathTo/project/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb:11
```
To delete breakpoints: use the command `delete _n_` to remove the breakpoint
diff --git a/guides/source/development_dependencies_install.md b/guides/source/development_dependencies_install.md
index b0e070120d..b134c9d2d0 100644
--- a/guides/source/development_dependencies_install.md
+++ b/guides/source/development_dependencies_install.md
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ and create the test databases:
```bash
$ cd activerecord
-$ bundle exec rake mysql:build_databases
+$ bundle exec rake db:mysql:build
```
PostgreSQL's authentication works differently. A simple way to set up the development environment for example is to run with your development account
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ and then create the test databases with
```bash
$ cd activerecord
-$ bundle exec rake postgresql:build_databases
+$ bundle exec rake db:postgresql:build
```
It is possible to build databases for both PostgreSQL and MySQL with
diff --git a/guides/source/documents.yaml b/guides/source/documents.yaml
index a160c462b2..5138412312 100644
--- a/guides/source/documents.yaml
+++ b/guides/source/documents.yaml
@@ -96,11 +96,6 @@
url: command_line.html
description: This guide covers the command line tools and rake tasks provided by Rails.
-
- name: Caching with Rails
- work_in_progress: true
- url: caching_with_rails.html
- description: Various caching techniques provided by Rails.
- -
name: Asset Pipeline
url: asset_pipeline.html
description: This guide documents the asset pipeline.
@@ -162,7 +157,6 @@
-
name: Upgrading Ruby on Rails
url: upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html
- work_in_progress: true
description: This guide helps in upgrading applications to latest Ruby on Rails versions.
-
name: Ruby on Rails 4.1 Release Notes
diff --git a/guides/source/engines.md b/guides/source/engines.md
index 8f9ba0995f..e7f024f1fc 100644
--- a/guides/source/engines.md
+++ b/guides/source/engines.md
@@ -36,14 +36,14 @@ engine **can** be a plugin, and a plugin **can** be an engine.
The engine that will be created in this guide will be called "blorgh". The
engine will provide blogging functionality to its host applications, allowing
-for new posts and comments to be created. At the beginning of this guide, you
+for new articles and comments to be created. At the beginning of this guide, you
will be working solely within the engine itself, but in later sections you'll
see how to hook it into an application.
Engines can also be isolated from their host applications. This means that an
application is able to have a path provided by a routing helper such as
-`posts_path` and use an engine also that provides a path also called
-`posts_path`, and the two would not clash. Along with this, controllers, models
+`articles_path` and use an engine also that provides a path also called
+`articles_path`, and the two would not clash. Along with this, controllers, models
and table names are also namespaced. You'll see how to do this later in this
guide.
@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ options as appropriate to the need. For the "blorgh" example, you will need to
create a "mountable" engine, running this command in a terminal:
```bash
-$ rails plugin new blorgh --mountable
+$ bin/rails plugin new blorgh --mountable
```
The full list of options for the plugin generator may be seen by typing:
```bash
-$ rails plugin --help
+$ bin/rails plugin --help
```
The `--full` option tells the generator that you want to create an engine,
@@ -197,12 +197,12 @@ 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 `rails g model`, such as `rails g model post`, won't be called `Post`, but
-instead be namespaced and called `Blorgh::Post`. In addition, the table for the
-model is namespaced, becoming `blorgh_posts`, rather than simply `posts`.
-Similar to the model namespacing, a controller called `PostsController` becomes
-`Blorgh::PostsController` and the views for that controller will not be at
-`app/views/posts`, but `app/views/blorgh/posts` instead. Mailers are namespaced
+to `bin/rails g model`, such as `bin/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
+`Blorgh::ArticlesController` and the views for that controller will not be at
+`app/views/articles`, but `app/views/blorgh/articles` instead. Mailers are namespaced
as well.
Finally, routes will also be isolated within the engine. This is one of the most
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ This means that you will be able to generate new controllers and models for this
engine very easily by running commands like this:
```bash
-rails g model
+$ bin/rails g model
```
Keep in mind, of course, that anything generated with these commands inside of
@@ -283,74 +283,74 @@ created in the `test` directory as well. For example, you may wish to create a
Providing engine functionality
------------------------------
-The engine that this guide covers provides posting and commenting functionality
-and follows a similar thread to the [Getting Started
+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.
-### Generating a Post Resource
+### Generating an Article Resource
-The first thing to generate for a blog engine is the `Post` model and related
+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
-$ rails generate scaffold post title:string text:text
+$ bin/rails generate scaffold article title:string text:text
```
This command will output this information:
```
invoke active_record
-create db/migrate/[timestamp]_create_blorgh_posts.rb
-create app/models/blorgh/post.rb
+create db/migrate/[timestamp]_create_blorgh_articles.rb
+create app/models/blorgh/article.rb
invoke test_unit
-create test/models/blorgh/post_test.rb
-create test/fixtures/blorgh/posts.yml
+create test/models/blorgh/article_test.rb
+create test/fixtures/blorgh/articles.yml
invoke resource_route
- route resources :posts
+ route resources :articles
invoke scaffold_controller
-create app/controllers/blorgh/posts_controller.rb
+create app/controllers/blorgh/articles_controller.rb
invoke erb
-create app/views/blorgh/posts
-create app/views/blorgh/posts/index.html.erb
-create app/views/blorgh/posts/edit.html.erb
-create app/views/blorgh/posts/show.html.erb
-create app/views/blorgh/posts/new.html.erb
-create app/views/blorgh/posts/_form.html.erb
+create app/views/blorgh/articles
+create app/views/blorgh/articles/index.html.erb
+create app/views/blorgh/articles/edit.html.erb
+create app/views/blorgh/articles/show.html.erb
+create app/views/blorgh/articles/new.html.erb
+create app/views/blorgh/articles/_form.html.erb
invoke test_unit
-create test/controllers/blorgh/posts_controller_test.rb
+create test/controllers/blorgh/articles_controller_test.rb
invoke helper
-create app/helpers/blorgh/posts_helper.rb
+create app/helpers/blorgh/articles_helper.rb
invoke test_unit
-create test/helpers/blorgh/posts_helper_test.rb
+create test/helpers/blorgh/articles_helper_test.rb
invoke assets
invoke js
-create app/assets/javascripts/blorgh/posts.js
+create app/assets/javascripts/blorgh/articles.js
invoke css
-create app/assets/stylesheets/blorgh/posts.css
+create app/assets/stylesheets/blorgh/articles.css
invoke css
create app/assets/stylesheets/scaffold.css
```
The first thing that the scaffold generator does is invoke the `active_record`
generator, which generates a migration and a model for the resource. Note here,
-however, that the migration is called `create_blorgh_posts` rather than the
-usual `create_posts`. This is due to the `isolate_namespace` method called in
+however, that the migration is called `create_blorgh_articles` rather than the
+usual `create_articles`. This is due to the `isolate_namespace` method called in
the `Blorgh::Engine` class's definition. The model here is also namespaced,
-being placed at `app/models/blorgh/post.rb` rather than `app/models/post.rb` due
+being placed at `app/models/blorgh/article.rb` rather than `app/models/article.rb` due
to the `isolate_namespace` call within the `Engine` class.
Next, the `test_unit` generator is invoked for this model, generating a model
-test at `test/models/blorgh/post_test.rb` (rather than
-`test/models/post_test.rb`) and a fixture at `test/fixtures/blorgh/posts.yml`
-(rather than `test/fixtures/posts.yml`).
+test at `test/models/blorgh/article_test.rb` (rather than
+`test/models/article_test.rb`) and a fixture at `test/fixtures/blorgh/articles.yml`
+(rather than `test/fixtures/articles.yml`).
After that, a line for the resource is inserted into the `config/routes.rb` file
-for the engine. This line is simply `resources :posts`, turning the
+for the engine. This line is simply `resources :articles`, turning the
`config/routes.rb` file for the engine into this:
```ruby
Blorgh::Engine.routes.draw do
- resources :posts
+ resources :articles
end
```
@@ -362,18 +362,18 @@ be isolated from those routes that are within the application. The
[Routes](#routes) section of this guide describes it in detail.
Next, the `scaffold_controller` generator is invoked, generating a controller
-called `Blorgh::PostsController` (at
-`app/controllers/blorgh/posts_controller.rb`) and its related views at
-`app/views/blorgh/posts`. This generator also generates a test for the
-controller (`test/controllers/blorgh/posts_controller_test.rb`) and a helper
-(`app/helpers/blorgh/posts_controller.rb`).
+called `Blorgh::ArticlesController` (at
+`app/controllers/blorgh/articles_controller.rb`) and its related views at
+`app/views/blorgh/articles`. This generator also generates a test for the
+controller (`test/controllers/blorgh/articles_controller_test.rb`) and a helper
+(`app/helpers/blorgh/articles_controller.rb`).
Everything this generator has created is neatly namespaced. The controller's
class is defined within the `Blorgh` module:
```ruby
module Blorgh
- class PostsController < ApplicationController
+ class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
...
end
end
@@ -382,22 +382,22 @@ end
NOTE: The `ApplicationController` class being inherited from here is the
`Blorgh::ApplicationController`, not an application's `ApplicationController`.
-The helper inside `app/helpers/blorgh/posts_helper.rb` is also namespaced:
+The helper inside `app/helpers/blorgh/articles_helper.rb` is also namespaced:
```ruby
module Blorgh
- module PostsHelper
+ module ArticlesHelper
...
end
end
```
This helps prevent conflicts with any other engine or application that may have
-a post resource as well.
+a article resource as well.
Finally, the assets for this resource are generated in two files:
-`app/assets/javascripts/blorgh/posts.js` and
-`app/assets/stylesheets/blorgh/posts.css`. You'll see how to use these a little
+`app/assets/javascripts/blorgh/articles.js` and
+`app/assets/stylesheets/blorgh/articles.css`. You'll see how to use these a little
later.
By default, the scaffold styling is not applied to the engine because the
@@ -412,46 +412,46 @@ tag of this layout:
You can see what the engine has so far by running `rake 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/posts` you will see the default scaffold that has
+`http://localhost:3000/blorgh/articles` you will see the default scaffold that has
been generated. Click around! You've just generated your first engine's first
functions.
If you'd rather play around in the console, `rails console` will also work just
-like a Rails application. Remember: the `Post` model is namespaced, so to
-reference it you must call it as `Blorgh::Post`.
+like a Rails application. Remember: the `Article` model is namespaced, so to
+reference it you must call it as `Blorgh::Article`.
```ruby
->> Blorgh::Post.find(1)
-=> #<Blorgh::Post id: 1 ...>
+>> Blorgh::Article.find(1)
+=> #<Blorgh::Article id: 1 ...>
```
-One final thing is that the `posts` resource for this engine should be the root
+One final thing is that the `articles` resource for this engine should be the root
of the engine. Whenever someone goes to the root path where the engine is
-mounted, they should be shown a list of posts. This can be made to happen if
+mounted, they should be shown a list of articles. This can be made to happen if
this line is inserted into the `config/routes.rb` file inside the engine:
```ruby
-root to: "posts#index"
+root to: "articles#index"
```
-Now people will only need to go to the root of the engine to see all the posts,
-rather than visiting `/posts`. This means that instead of
-`http://localhost:3000/blorgh/posts`, you only need to go to
+Now people will only need to go to the root of the engine to see all the articles,
+rather than visiting `/articles`. This means that instead of
+`http://localhost:3000/blorgh/articles`, you only need to go to
`http://localhost:3000/blorgh` now.
### Generating a Comments Resource
-Now that the engine can create new blog posts, it only makes sense to add
+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 posts 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
-`Comment` model, with the related table having two columns: a `post_id` integer
+`Comment` model, with the related table having two columns: a `article_id` integer
and `text` text column.
```bash
-$ rails generate model Comment post_id:integer text:text
+$ bin/rails generate model Comment article_id:integer text:text
```
This will output the following:
@@ -474,17 +474,17 @@ table:
$ rake db:migrate
```
-To show the comments on a post, edit `app/views/blorgh/posts/show.html.erb` and
+To show the comments on an article, edit `app/views/blorgh/articles/show.html.erb` and
add this line before the "Edit" link:
```html+erb
<h3>Comments</h3>
-<%= render @post.comments %>
+<%= render @article.comments %>
```
This line will require there to be a `has_many` association for comments defined
-on the `Blorgh::Post` model, which there isn't right now. To define one, open
-`app/models/blorgh/post.rb` and add this line into the model:
+on the `Blorgh::Article` model, which there isn't right now. To define one, open
+`app/models/blorgh/article.rb` and add this line into the model:
```ruby
has_many :comments
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ Turning the model into this:
```ruby
module Blorgh
- class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+ class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments
end
end
@@ -505,9 +505,9 @@ NOTE: Because the `has_many` is defined inside a class that is inside the
model for these objects, so there's no need to specify that using the
`:class_name` option here.
-Next, there needs to be a form so that comments can be created on a post. To add
-this, put this line underneath the call to `render @post.comments` in
-`app/views/blorgh/posts/show.html.erb`:
+Next, there needs to be a form so that comments can be created on a article. To add
+this, put this line underneath the call to `render @article.comments` in
+`app/views/blorgh/articles/show.html.erb`:
```erb
<%= render "blorgh/comments/form" %>
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ directory at `app/views/blorgh/comments` and in it a new file called
```html+erb
<h3>New comment</h3>
-<%= form_for [@post, @post.comments.build] do |f| %>
+<%= form_for [@article, @article.comments.build] do |f| %>
<p>
<%= f.label :text %><br>
<%= f.text_area :text %>
@@ -529,12 +529,12 @@ directory at `app/views/blorgh/comments` and in it a new file called
```
When this form is submitted, it is going to attempt to perform a `POST` request
-to a route of `/posts/:post_id/comments` within the engine. This route doesn't
-exist at the moment, but can be created by changing the `resources :posts` line
+to a route of `/articles/:article_id/comments` within the engine. This route doesn't
+exist at the moment, but can be created by changing the `resources :articles` line
inside `config/routes.rb` into these lines:
```ruby
-resources :posts do
+resources :articles do
resources :comments
end
```
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ 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
-$ rails g controller comments
+$ bin/rails g controller comments
```
This will generate the following things:
@@ -567,17 +567,17 @@ invoke css
create app/assets/stylesheets/blorgh/comments.css
```
-The form will be making a `POST` request to `/posts/:post_id/comments`, which
+The form will be making a `POST` request to `/articles/:article_id/comments`, which
will correspond with the `create` action in `Blorgh::CommentsController`. This
action needs to be created, which can be done by putting the following lines
inside the class definition in `app/controllers/blorgh/comments_controller.rb`:
```ruby
def create
- @post = Post.find(params[:post_id])
- @comment = @post.comments.create(comment_params)
+ @article = Article.find(params[:article_id])
+ @comment = @article.comments.create(comment_params)
flash[:notice] = "Comment has been created!"
- redirect_to posts_path
+ redirect_to articles_path
end
private
@@ -590,11 +590,11 @@ This is the final step required to get the new comment form working. Displaying
the comments, however, is not quite right yet. If you were to create a comment
right now, you would see this error:
-```
+```
Missing partial blorgh/comments/comment with {:handlers=>[:erb, :builder],
:formats=>[:html], :locale=>[:en, :en]}. Searched in: *
"/Users/ryan/Sites/side_projects/blorgh/test/dummy/app/views" *
-"/Users/ryan/Sites/side_projects/blorgh/app/views"
+"/Users/ryan/Sites/side_projects/blorgh/app/views"
```
The engine is unable to find the partial required for rendering the comments.
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ line inside it:
```
The `comment_counter` local variable is given to us by the `<%= render
-@post.comments %>` call, which will define it automatically and increment the
+@article.comments %>` call, which will define it automatically and increment the
counter as it iterates through each comment. It's used in this example to
display a small number next to each comment when it's created.
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ Hooking Into an Application
Using an engine within an application is very easy. This section covers how to
mount the engine into an application and the initial setup required, as well as
linking the engine to a `User` class provided by the application to provide
-ownership for posts and comments within the engine.
+ownership for articles and comments within the engine.
### Mounting the Engine
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ pre-defined path which may be customizable.
### Engine setup
-The engine contains migrations for the `blorgh_posts` and `blorgh_comments`
+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 use this command:
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ haven't been copied over already. The first run for this command will output
something such as this:
```bash
-Copied migration [timestamp_1]_create_blorgh_posts.rb from blorgh
+Copied migration [timestamp_1]_create_blorgh_articles.rb from blorgh
Copied migration [timestamp_2]_create_blorgh_comments.rb from blorgh
```
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ migrations in the application.
To run these migrations within the context of the application, simply run `rake
db:migrate`. When accessing the engine through `http://localhost:3000/blog`, the
-posts will be empty. This is because the table created inside the application is
+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
newly mounted engine. You'll find that it's the same as when it was only an
engine.
@@ -734,11 +734,11 @@ rake db:migrate SCOPE=blorgh VERSION=0
When an engine is created, it may want to use specific classes from an
application to provide links between the pieces of the engine and the pieces of
-the application. In the case of the `blorgh` engine, making posts and comments
+the application. In the case of the `blorgh` engine, making articles and comments
have authors would make a lot of sense.
A typical application might have a `User` class that would be used to represent
-authors for a post or a comment. But there could be a case where the application
+authors for a article or a comment. But there could be a case where the application
calls this class something different, such as `Person`. For this reason, the
engine should not hardcode associations specifically for a `User` class.
@@ -753,14 +753,14 @@ rails g model user name:string
The `rake 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 posts form will have a new text field called
+Also, to keep it simple, the articles form will have a new text field called
`author_name`, where users can elect to put their name. The engine will then
take this name and either create a new `User` object from it, or find one that
-already has that name. The engine will then associate the post with the found or
+already has that name. The engine will then associate the article with the found or
created `User` object.
First, the `author_name` text field needs to be added to the
-`app/views/blorgh/posts/_form.html.erb` partial inside the engine. This can be
+`app/views/blorgh/articles/_form.html.erb` partial inside the engine. This can be
added above the `title` field with this code:
```html+erb
@@ -770,23 +770,23 @@ added above the `title` field with this code:
</div>
```
-Next, we need to update our `Blorgh::PostController#post_params` method to
+Next, we need to update our `Blorgh::ArticleController#article_params` method to
permit the new form parameter:
```ruby
-def post_params
- params.require(:post).permit(:title, :text, :author_name)
+def article_params
+ params.require(:article).permit(:title, :text, :author_name)
end
```
-The `Blorgh::Post` model should then have some code to convert the `author_name`
-field into an actual `User` object and associate it as that post's `author`
-before the post is saved. It will also need to have an `attr_accessor` set up
+The `Blorgh::Article` model should then have some code to convert the `author_name`
+field into an actual `User` object and associate it as that article's `author`
+before the article is saved. It will also need to have an `attr_accessor` set up
for this field, so that the setter and getter methods are defined for it.
To do all this, you'll need to add the `attr_accessor` for `author_name`, the
association for the author and the `before_save` call into
-`app/models/blorgh/post.rb`. The `author` association will be hard-coded to the
+`app/models/blorgh/article.rb`. The `author` association will be hard-coded to the
`User` class for the time being.
```ruby
@@ -803,14 +803,14 @@ private
By representing the `author` association's object with the `User` class, a link
is established between the engine and the application. There needs to be a way
-of associating the records in the `blorgh_posts` table with the records in the
+of associating the records in the `blorgh_articles` table with the records in the
`users` table. Because the association is called `author`, there should be an
-`author_id` column added to the `blorgh_posts` table.
+`author_id` column added to the `blorgh_articles` table.
To generate this new column, run this command within the engine:
```bash
-$ rails g migration add_author_id_to_blorgh_posts author_id:integer
+$ bin/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
@@ -828,12 +828,12 @@ $ rake blorgh:install:migrations
Notice that only _one_ migration was copied over here. This is because the first
two migrations were copied over the first time this command was run.
-```
-NOTE Migration [timestamp]_create_blorgh_posts.rb from blorgh has been
+```
+NOTE Migration [timestamp]_create_blorgh_articles.rb from blorgh has been
skipped. Migration with the same name already exists. NOTE Migration
[timestamp]_create_blorgh_comments.rb from blorgh has been skipped. Migration
with the same name already exists. Copied migration
-[timestamp]_add_author_id_to_blorgh_posts.rb from blorgh
+[timestamp]_add_author_id_to_blorgh_articles.rb from blorgh
```
Run the migration using:
@@ -843,20 +843,20 @@ $ rake db:migrate
```
Now with all the pieces in place, an action will take place that will associate
-an author - represented by a record in the `users` table - with a post,
-represented by the `blorgh_posts` table from the engine.
+an author - represented by a record in the `users` table - with an article,
+represented by the `blorgh_articles` table from the engine.
-Finally, the author's name should be displayed on the post's page. Add this code
-above the "Title" output inside `app/views/blorgh/posts/show.html.erb`:
+Finally, the author's name should be displayed on the article's page. Add this code
+above the "Title" output inside `app/views/blorgh/articles/show.html.erb`:
```html+erb
<p>
<b>Author:</b>
- <%= @post.author %>
+ <%= @article.author %>
</p>
```
-By outputting `@post.author` using the `<%=` tag, the `to_s` method will be
+By outputting `@article.author` using the `<%=` tag, the `to_s` method will be
called on the object. By default, this will look quite ugly:
```
@@ -925,15 +925,15 @@ This method works like its brothers, `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`.
-The next step is to switch the `Blorgh::Post` model over to this new setting.
+The next step is to switch the `Blorgh::Article` model over to this new setting.
Change the `belongs_to` association inside this model
-(`app/models/blorgh/post.rb`) to this:
+(`app/models/blorgh/article.rb`) to this:
```ruby
belongs_to :author, class_name: Blorgh.author_class
```
-The `set_author` method in the `Blorgh::Post` model should also use this class:
+The `set_author` method in the `Blorgh::Article` model should also use this class:
```ruby
self.author = Blorgh.author_class.constantize.find_or_create_by(name: author_name)
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ Resulting in something a little shorter, and more implicit in its behavior. The
`author_class` method should always return a `Class` object.
Since we changed the `author_class` method to return a `Class` instead of a
-`String`, we must also modify our `belongs_to` definition in the `Blorgh::Post`
+`String`, we must also modify our `belongs_to` definition in the `Blorgh::Article`
model:
```ruby
@@ -985,14 +985,14 @@ 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
used and then converted to a class using `constantize` in the engine later on.
-Go ahead and try to create a new post. You will see that it works exactly in the
+Go ahead and try to create a new article. You will see that it works exactly in the
same way as before, except this time the engine is using the configuration
setting in `config/initializers/blorgh.rb` to learn what the class is.
There are now no strict dependencies on what the class is, only what the API for
the class must be. The engine simply requires this class to define a
`find_or_create_by` method which returns an object of that class, to be
-associated with a post when it's created. This object, of course, should have
+associated with an article when it's created. This object, of course, should have
some sort of identifier by which it can be referenced.
#### General Engine Configuration
@@ -1107,12 +1107,12 @@ that isn't referenced by your main application.
#### Implementing Decorator Pattern Using Class#class_eval
-**Adding** `Post#time_since_created`:
+**Adding** `Article#time_since_created`:
```ruby
-# MyApp/app/decorators/models/blorgh/post_decorator.rb
+# MyApp/app/decorators/models/blorgh/article_decorator.rb
-Blorgh::Post.class_eval do
+Blorgh::Article.class_eval do
def time_since_created
Time.current - created_at
end
@@ -1120,20 +1120,20 @@ end
```
```ruby
-# Blorgh/app/models/post.rb
+# Blorgh/app/models/article.rb
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments
end
```
-**Overriding** `Post#summary`:
+**Overriding** `Article#summary`:
```ruby
-# MyApp/app/decorators/models/blorgh/post_decorator.rb
+# MyApp/app/decorators/models/blorgh/article_decorator.rb
-Blorgh::Post.class_eval do
+Blorgh::Article.class_eval do
def summary
"#{title} - #{truncate(text)}"
end
@@ -1141,9 +1141,9 @@ end
```
```ruby
-# Blorgh/app/models/post.rb
+# Blorgh/app/models/article.rb
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments
def summary
"#{title}"
@@ -1159,13 +1159,13 @@ class modifications, you might want to consider using [`ActiveSupport::Concern`]
ActiveSupport::Concern manages load order of interlinked dependent modules and
classes at run time allowing you to significantly modularize your code.
-**Adding** `Post#time_since_created` and **Overriding** `Post#summary`:
+**Adding** `Article#time_since_created` and **Overriding** `Article#summary`:
```ruby
-# MyApp/app/models/blorgh/post.rb
+# MyApp/app/models/blorgh/article.rb
-class Blorgh::Post < ActiveRecord::Base
- include Blorgh::Concerns::Models::Post
+class Blorgh::Article < ActiveRecord::Base
+ include Blorgh::Concerns::Models::Article
def time_since_created
Time.current - created_at
@@ -1178,22 +1178,22 @@ end
```
```ruby
-# Blorgh/app/models/post.rb
+# Blorgh/app/models/article.rb
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
- include Blorgh::Concerns::Models::Post
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
+ include Blorgh::Concerns::Models::Article
end
```
```ruby
-# Blorgh/lib/concerns/models/post
+# Blorgh/lib/concerns/models/article
-module Blorgh::Concerns::Models::Post
+module Blorgh::Concerns::Models::Article
extend ActiveSupport::Concern
# 'included do' causes the included code to be evaluated in the
- # context where it is included (post.rb), rather than being
- # executed in the module's context (blorgh/concerns/models/post).
+ # context where it is included (article.rb), rather than being
+ # executed in the module's context (blorgh/concerns/models/article).
included do
attr_accessor :author_name
belongs_to :author, class_name: "User"
@@ -1224,25 +1224,25 @@ When Rails looks for a view to render, it will first look in the `app/views`
directory of the application. If it cannot find the view there, it will check in
the `app/views` directories of all engines that have this directory.
-When the application is asked to render the view for `Blorgh::PostsController`'s
+When the application is asked to render the view for `Blorgh::ArticlesController`'s
index action, it will first look for the path
-`app/views/blorgh/posts/index.html.erb` within the application. If it cannot
+`app/views/blorgh/articles/index.html.erb` within the application. If it cannot
find it, it will look inside the engine.
You can override this view in the application by simply creating a new file at
-`app/views/blorgh/posts/index.html.erb`. Then you can completely change what
+`app/views/blorgh/articles/index.html.erb`. Then you can completely change what
this view would normally output.
-Try this now by creating a new file at `app/views/blorgh/posts/index.html.erb`
+Try this now by creating a new file at `app/views/blorgh/articles/index.html.erb`
and put this content in it:
```html+erb
-<h1>Posts</h1>
-<%= link_to "New Post", new_post_path %>
-<% @posts.each do |post| %>
- <h2><%= post.title %></h2>
- <small>By <%= post.author %></small>
- <%= simple_format(post.text) %>
+<h1>Articles</h1>
+<%= link_to "New Article", new_article_path %>
+<% @articles.each do |article| %>
+ <h2><%= article.title %></h2>
+ <small>By <%= article.author %></small>
+ <%= simple_format(article.text) %>
<hr>
<% end %>
```
@@ -1259,30 +1259,30 @@ Routes inside an engine are drawn on the `Engine` class within
```ruby
Blorgh::Engine.routes.draw do
- resources :posts
+ resources :articles
end
```
By having isolated routes such as this, if you wish to link to an area of an
engine from within an application, you will need to use the engine's routing
-proxy method. Calls to normal routing methods such as `posts_path` may end up
+proxy method. Calls to normal routing methods such as `articles_path` may end up
going to undesired locations if both the application and the engine have such a
helper defined.
-For instance, the following example would go to the application's `posts_path`
-if that template was rendered from the application, or the engine's `posts_path`
+For instance, the following example would go to the application's `articles_path`
+if that template was rendered from the application, or the engine's `articles_path`
if it was rendered from the engine:
```erb
-<%= link_to "Blog posts", posts_path %>
+<%= link_to "Blog articles", articles_path %>
```
-To make this route always use the engine's `posts_path` routing helper method,
+To make this route always use the engine's `articles_path` routing helper method,
we must call the method on the routing proxy method that shares the same name as
the engine.
```erb
-<%= link_to "Blog posts", blorgh.posts_path %>
+<%= link_to "Blog articles", blorgh.articles_path %>
```
If you wish to reference the application inside the engine in a similar way, use
diff --git a/guides/source/form_helpers.md b/guides/source/form_helpers.md
index 027b6303fc..048eb9a6e3 100644
--- a/guides/source/form_helpers.md
+++ b/guides/source/form_helpers.md
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ After reading this guide, you will know:
NOTE: This guide is not intended to be a complete documentation of available form helpers and their arguments. Please visit [the Rails API documentation](http://api.rubyonrails.org/) for a complete reference.
-
Dealing with Basic Forms
------------------------
@@ -32,18 +31,14 @@ The most basic form helper is `form_tag`.
When called without arguments like this, it creates a `<form>` tag which, when submitted, will POST to the current page. For instance, assuming the current page is `/home/index`, the generated HTML will look like this (some line breaks added for readability):
```html
-<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/home/index" method="post">
- <div style="margin:0;padding:0">
- <input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" />
- <input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="f755bb0ed134b76c432144748a6d4b7a7ddf2b71" />
- </div>
+<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/" method="post">
+ <input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" />
+ <input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="J7CBxfHalt49OSHp27hblqK20c9PgwJ108nDHX/8Cts=" />
Form contents
</form>
```
-Now, you'll notice that the HTML contains something extra: a `div` element with two hidden input elements inside. This div is important, because the form cannot be successfully submitted without it. The first input element with name `utf8` enforces browsers to properly respect your form's character encoding and is generated for all forms whether their actions are "GET" or "POST". The second input element with name `authenticity_token` is a security feature of Rails called **cross-site request forgery protection**, and form helpers generate it for every non-GET form (provided that this security feature is enabled). You can read more about this in the [Security Guide](./security.html#cross-site-request-forgery-csrf).
-
-NOTE: Throughout this guide, the `div` with the hidden input elements will be excluded from code samples for brevity.
+You'll notice that the HTML contains `input` element with type `hidden`. This `input` is important, because the form cannot be successfully submitted without it. The hidden input element has name attribute of `utf8` enforces browsers to properly respect your form's character encoding and is generated for all forms whether their actions are "GET" or "POST". The second input element with name `authenticity_token` is a security feature of Rails called **cross-site request forgery protection**, and form helpers generate it for every non-GET form (provided that this security feature is enabled). You can read more about this in the [Security Guide](security.html#cross-site-request-forgery-csrf).
### A Generic Search Form
@@ -67,14 +62,15 @@ To create this form you will use `form_tag`, `label_tag`, `text_field_tag`, and
This will generate the following HTML:
```html
-<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/search" method="get"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" /></div>
+<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/search" method="get">
+ <input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" />
<label for="q">Search for:</label>
<input id="q" name="q" type="text" />
<input name="commit" type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
```
-TIP: For every form input, an ID attribute is generated from its name ("q" in the example). These IDs can be very useful for CSS styling or manipulation of form controls with JavaScript.
+TIP: For every form input, an ID attribute is generated from its name (`"q"` in above example). These IDs can be very useful for CSS styling or manipulation of form controls with JavaScript.
Besides `text_field_tag` and `submit_tag`, there is a similar helper for _every_ form control in HTML.
@@ -146,7 +142,7 @@ Output:
<label for="age_adult">I'm over 21</label>
```
-As with `check_box_tag`, the second parameter to `radio_button_tag` is the value of the input. Because these two radio buttons share the same name (`age`), the user will only be able to select one of them, and `params[:age]` will contain either "child" or "adult".
+As with `check_box_tag`, the second parameter to `radio_button_tag` is the value of the input. Because these two radio buttons share the same name (`age`), the user will only be able to select one of them, and `params[:age]` will contain either `"child"` or `"adult"`.
NOTE: Always use labels for checkbox and radio buttons. They associate text with a specific option and,
by expanding the clickable region,
@@ -217,7 +213,7 @@ Dealing with Model Objects
### Model Object Helpers
-A particularly common task for a form is editing or creating a model object. While the `*_tag` helpers can certainly be used for this task they are somewhat verbose as for each tag you would have to ensure the correct parameter name is used and set the default value of the input appropriately. Rails provides helpers tailored to this task. These helpers lack the _tag suffix, for example `text_field`, `text_area`.
+A particularly common task for a form is editing or creating a model object. While the `*_tag` helpers can certainly be used for this task they are somewhat verbose as for each tag you would have to ensure the correct parameter name is used and set the default value of the input appropriately. Rails provides helpers tailored to this task. These helpers lack the `_tag` suffix, for example `text_field`, `text_area`.
For these helpers the first argument is the name of an instance variable and the second is the name of a method (usually an attribute) to call on that object. Rails will set the value of the input control to the return value of that method for the object and set an appropriate input name. If your controller has defined `@person` and that person's name is Henry then a form containing:
@@ -239,7 +235,7 @@ Rails provides helpers for displaying the validation errors associated with a mo
### Binding a Form to an Object
-While this is an increase in comfort it is far from perfect. If Person has many attributes to edit then we would be repeating the name of the edited object many times. What we want to do is somehow bind a form to a model object, which is exactly what `form_for` does.
+While this is an increase in comfort it is far from perfect. If `Person` has many attributes to edit then we would be repeating the name of the edited object many times. What we want to do is somehow bind a form to a model object, which is exactly what `form_for` does.
Assume we have a controller for dealing with articles `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb`:
@@ -264,7 +260,7 @@ There are a few things to note here:
* `@article` is the actual object being edited.
* There is a single hash of options. Routing options are passed in the `:url` hash, HTML options are passed in the `:html` hash. Also you can provide a `:namespace` option for your form to ensure uniqueness of id attributes on form elements. The namespace attribute will be prefixed with underscore on the generated HTML id.
* The `form_for` method yields a **form builder** object (the `f` variable).
-* Methods to create form controls are called **on** the form builder object `f`
+* Methods to create form controls are called **on** the form builder object `f`.
The resulting HTML is:
@@ -280,7 +276,7 @@ The name passed to `form_for` controls the key used in `params` to access the fo
The helper methods called on the form builder are identical to the model object helpers except that it is not necessary to specify which object is being edited since this is already managed by the form builder.
-You can create a similar binding without actually creating `<form>` tags with the `fields_for` helper. This is useful for editing additional model objects with the same form. For example if you had a Person model with an associated ContactDetail model you could create a form for creating both like so:
+You can create a similar binding without actually creating `<form>` tags with the `fields_for` helper. This is useful for editing additional model objects with the same form. For example if you had a `Person` model with an associated `ContactDetail` model you could create a form for creating both like so:
```erb
<%= form_for @person, url: {action: "create"} do |person_form| %>
@@ -350,7 +346,6 @@ form_for [:admin, :management, @article]
For more information on Rails' routing system and the associated conventions, please see the [routing guide](routing.html).
-
### How do forms with PATCH, PUT, or DELETE methods work?
The Rails framework encourages RESTful design of your applications, which means you'll be making a lot of "PATCH" and "DELETE" requests (besides "GET" and "POST"). However, most browsers _don't support_ methods other than "GET" and "POST" when it comes to submitting forms.
@@ -365,12 +360,11 @@ output:
```html
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/search" method="post">
- <div style="margin:0;padding:0">
- <input name="_method" type="hidden" value="patch" />
- <input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" />
- <input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="f755bb0ed134b76c432144748a6d4b7a7ddf2b71" />
- </div>
+ <input name="_method" type="hidden" value="patch" />
+ <input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" />
+ <input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="f755bb0ed134b76c432144748a6d4b7a7ddf2b71" />
...
+</form>
```
When parsing POSTed data, Rails will take into account the special `_method` parameter and acts as if the HTTP method was the one specified inside it ("PATCH" in this example).
@@ -435,7 +429,7 @@ output:
Whenever Rails sees that the internal value of an option being generated matches this value, it will add the `selected` attribute to that option.
-TIP: The second argument to `options_for_select` must be exactly equal to the desired internal value. In particular if the value is the integer 2 you cannot pass "2" to `options_for_select` - you must pass 2. Be aware of values extracted from the `params` hash as they are all strings.
+TIP: The second argument to `options_for_select` must be exactly equal to the desired internal value. In particular if the value is the integer `2` you cannot pass `"2"` to `options_for_select` - you must pass `2`. Be aware of values extracted from the `params` hash as they are all strings.
WARNING: when `:include_blank` or `:prompt` are not present, `:include_blank` is forced true if the select attribute `required` is true, display `size` is one and `multiple` is not true.
@@ -489,11 +483,11 @@ You can also pass a block to `select` helper:
<% end %>
```
-WARNING: If you are using `select` (or similar helpers such as `collection_select`, `select_tag`) to set a `belongs_to` association you must pass the name of the foreign key (in the example above `city_id`), not the name of association itself. If you specify `city` instead of `city_id` Active Record will raise an error along the lines of ` ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch: City(#17815740) expected, got String(#1138750) ` when you pass the `params` hash to `Person.new` or `update`. Another way of looking at this is that form helpers only edit attributes. You should also be aware of the potential security ramifications of allowing users to edit foreign keys directly.
+WARNING: If you are using `select` (or similar helpers such as `collection_select`, `select_tag`) to set a `belongs_to` association you must pass the name of the foreign key (in the example above `city_id`), not the name of association itself. If you specify `city` instead of `city_id` Active Record will raise an error along the lines of `ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch: City(#17815740) expected, got String(#1138750)` when you pass the `params` hash to `Person.new` or `update`. Another way of looking at this is that form helpers only edit attributes. You should also be aware of the potential security ramifications of allowing users to edit foreign keys directly.
### Option Tags from a Collection of Arbitrary Objects
-Generating options tags with `options_for_select` requires that you create an array containing the text and value for each option. But what if you had a City model (perhaps an Active Record one) and you wanted to generate option tags from a collection of those objects? One solution would be to make a nested array by iterating over them:
+Generating options tags with `options_for_select` requires that you create an array containing the text and value for each option. But what if you had a `City` model (perhaps an Active Record one) and you wanted to generate option tags from a collection of those objects? One solution would be to make a nested array by iterating over them:
```erb
<% cities_array = City.all.map { |city| [city.name, city.id] } %>
@@ -540,7 +534,7 @@ Both of these families of helpers will create a series of select boxes for the d
### Barebones Helpers
-The `select_*` family of helpers take as their first argument an instance of Date, Time or DateTime that is used as the currently selected value. You may omit this parameter, in which case the current date is used. For example
+The `select_*` family of helpers take as their first argument an instance of `Date`, `Time` or `DateTime` that is used as the currently selected value. You may omit this parameter, in which case the current date is used. For example
```erb
<%= select_date Date.today, prefix: :start_date %>
@@ -554,7 +548,7 @@ outputs (with actual option values omitted for brevity)
<select id="start_date_day" name="start_date[day]"> ... </select>
```
-The above inputs would result in `params[:start_date]` being a hash with keys `:year`, `:month`, `:day`. To get an actual Time or Date object you would have to extract these values and pass them to the appropriate constructor, for example
+The above inputs would result in `params[:start_date]` being a hash with keys `:year`, `:month`, `:day`. To get an actual `Date`, `Time` or `DateTime` object you would have to extract these values and pass them to the appropriate constructor, for example
```ruby
Date.civil(params[:start_date][:year].to_i, params[:start_date][:month].to_i, params[:start_date][:day].to_i)
@@ -599,7 +593,7 @@ NOTE: In many cases the built-in date pickers are clumsy as they do not aid the
Occasionally you need to display just a single date component such as a year or a month. Rails provides a series of helpers for this, one for each component `select_year`, `select_month`, `select_day`, `select_hour`, `select_minute`, `select_second`. These helpers are fairly straightforward. By default they will generate an input field named after the time component (for example "year" for `select_year`, "month" for `select_month` etc.) although this can be overridden with the `:field_name` option. The `:prefix` option works in the same way that it does for `select_date` and `select_time` and has the same default value.
-The first parameter specifies which value should be selected and can either be an instance of a Date, Time or DateTime, in which case the relevant component will be extracted, or a numerical value. For example
+The first parameter specifies which value should be selected and can either be an instance of a `Date`, `Time` or `DateTime`, in which case the relevant component will be extracted, or a numerical value. For example
```erb
<%= select_year(2009) %>
@@ -629,7 +623,7 @@ Rails provides the usual pair of helpers: the barebones `file_field_tag` and the
### What Gets Uploaded
-The object in the `params` hash is an instance of a subclass of IO. Depending on the size of the uploaded file it may in fact be a StringIO or an instance of File backed by a temporary file. In both cases the object will have an `original_filename` attribute containing the name the file had on the user's computer and a `content_type` attribute containing the MIME type of the uploaded file. The following snippet saves the uploaded content in `#{Rails.root}/public/uploads` under the same name as the original file (assuming the form was the one in the previous example).
+The object in the `params` hash is an instance of a subclass of `IO`. Depending on the size of the uploaded file it may in fact be a StringIO or an instance of `File` backed by a temporary file. In both cases the object will have an `original_filename` attribute containing the name the file had on the user's computer and a `content_type` attribute containing the MIME type of the uploaded file. The following snippet saves the uploaded content in `#{Rails.root}/public/uploads` under the same name as the original file (assuming the form was the one in the previous example).
```ruby
def upload
@@ -640,7 +634,7 @@ def upload
end
```
-Once a file has been uploaded, there are a multitude of potential tasks, ranging from where to store the files (on disk, Amazon S3, etc) and associating them with models to resizing image files and generating thumbnails. The intricacies of this are beyond the scope of this guide, but there are several libraries designed to assist with these. Two of the better known ones are [CarrierWave](https://github.com/jnicklas/carrierwave) and [Paperclip](http://www.thoughtbot.com/projects/paperclip).
+Once a file has been uploaded, there are a multitude of potential tasks, ranging from where to store the files (on disk, Amazon S3, etc) and associating them with models to resizing image files and generating thumbnails. The intricacies of this are beyond the scope of this guide, but there are several libraries designed to assist with these. Two of the better known ones are [CarrierWave](https://github.com/jnicklas/carrierwave) and [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip).
NOTE: If the user has not selected a file the corresponding parameter will be an empty string.
@@ -651,7 +645,7 @@ Unlike other forms making an asynchronous file upload form is not as simple as p
Customizing Form Builders
-------------------------
-As mentioned previously the object yielded by `form_for` and `fields_for` is an instance of FormBuilder (or a subclass thereof). Form builders encapsulate the notion of displaying form elements for a single object. While you can of course write helpers for your forms in the usual way, you can also subclass FormBuilder and add the helpers there. For example
+As mentioned previously the object yielded by `form_for` and `fields_for` is an instance of `FormBuilder` (or a subclass thereof). Form builders encapsulate the notion of displaying form elements for a single object. While you can of course write helpers for your forms in the usual way, you can also subclass `FormBuilder` and add the helpers there. For example
```erb
<%= form_for @person do |f| %>
@@ -667,7 +661,7 @@ can be replaced with
<% end %>
```
-by defining a LabellingFormBuilder class similar to the following:
+by defining a `LabellingFormBuilder` class similar to the following:
```ruby
class LabellingFormBuilder < ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder
@@ -685,7 +679,7 @@ The form builder used also determines what happens when you do
<%= render partial: f %>
```
-If `f` is an instance of FormBuilder then this will render the `form` partial, setting the partial's object to the form builder. If the form builder is of class LabellingFormBuilder then the `labelling_form` partial would be rendered instead.
+If `f` is an instance of `FormBuilder` then this will render the `form` partial, setting the partial's object to the form builder. If the form builder is of class `LabellingFormBuilder` then the `labelling_form` partial would be rendered instead.
Understanding Parameter Naming Conventions
------------------------------------------
@@ -862,7 +856,7 @@ Or if you don't want to render an `authenticity_token` field:
Building Complex Forms
----------------------
-Many apps grow beyond simple forms editing a single object. For example when creating a Person you might want to allow the user to (on the same form) create multiple address records (home, work, etc.). When later editing that person the user should be able to add, remove or amend addresses as necessary.
+Many apps grow beyond simple forms editing a single object. For example when creating a `Person` you might want to allow the user to (on the same form) create multiple address records (home, work, etc.). When later editing that person the user should be able to add, remove or amend addresses as necessary.
### Configuring the Model
diff --git a/guides/source/generators.md b/guides/source/generators.md
index 4a5377c206..25c67de993 100644
--- a/guides/source/generators.md
+++ b/guides/source/generators.md
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ When you create an application using the `rails` command, you are in fact using
```bash
$ rails new myapp
$ cd myapp
-$ rails generate
+$ bin/rails generate
```
You will get a list of all generators that comes with Rails. If you need a detailed description of the helper generator, for example, you can simply do:
```bash
-$ rails generate helper --help
+$ bin/rails generate helper --help
```
Creating Your First Generator
@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ Our new generator is quite simple: it inherits from `Rails::Generators::Base` an
To invoke our new generator, we just need to do:
```bash
-$ rails generate initializer
+$ bin/rails generate initializer
```
Before we go on, let's see our brand new generator description:
```bash
-$ rails generate initializer --help
+$ bin/rails generate initializer --help
```
Rails is usually able to generate good descriptions if a generator is namespaced, as `ActiveRecord::Generators::ModelGenerator`, but not in this particular case. We can solve this problem in two ways. The first one is calling `desc` inside our generator:
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Creating Generators with Generators
Generators themselves have a generator:
```bash
-$ rails generate generator initializer
+$ bin/rails generate generator initializer
create lib/generators/initializer
create lib/generators/initializer/initializer_generator.rb
create lib/generators/initializer/USAGE
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ First, notice that we are inheriting from `Rails::Generators::NamedBase` instead
We can see that by invoking the description of this new generator (don't forget to delete the old generator file):
```bash
-$ rails generate initializer --help
+$ bin/rails generate initializer --help
Usage:
rails generate initializer NAME [options]
```
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ end
And let's execute our generator:
```bash
-$ rails generate initializer core_extensions
+$ bin/rails generate initializer core_extensions
```
We can see that now an initializer named core_extensions was created at `config/initializers/core_extensions.rb` with the contents of our template. That means that `copy_file` copied a file in our source root to the destination path we gave. The method `file_name` is automatically created when we inherit from `Rails::Generators::NamedBase`.
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ end
Before we customize our workflow, let's first see what our scaffold looks like:
```bash
-$ rails generate scaffold User name:string
+$ bin/rails generate scaffold User name:string
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20130924151154_create_users.rb
create app/models/user.rb
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ If we generate another resource with the scaffold generator, we can see that sty
To demonstrate this, we are going to create a new helper generator that simply adds some instance variable readers. First, we create a generator within the rails namespace, as this is where rails searches for generators used as hooks:
```bash
-$ rails generate generator rails/my_helper
+$ bin/rails generate generator rails/my_helper
create lib/generators/rails/my_helper
create lib/generators/rails/my_helper/my_helper_generator.rb
create lib/generators/rails/my_helper/USAGE
@@ -248,10 +248,10 @@ end
end
```
-We can try out our new generator by creating a helper for users:
+We can try out our new generator by creating a helper for products:
```bash
-$ rails generate my_helper products
+$ bin/rails generate my_helper products
create app/helpers/products_helper.rb
```
@@ -279,10 +279,10 @@ end
and see it in action when invoking the generator:
```bash
-$ rails generate scaffold Post body:text
+$ bin/rails generate scaffold Article body:text
[...]
invoke my_helper
- create app/helpers/posts_helper.rb
+ create app/helpers/articles_helper.rb
```
We can notice on the output that our new helper was invoked instead of the Rails default. However one thing is missing, which is tests for our new generator and to do that, we are going to reuse old helpers test generators.
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ end
Now, if you create a Comment scaffold, you will see that the shoulda generators are being invoked, and at the end, they are just falling back to TestUnit generators:
```bash
-$ rails generate scaffold Comment body:text
+$ bin/rails generate scaffold Comment body:text
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20130924143118_create_comments.rb
create app/models/comment.rb
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ Replaces text inside a file.
gsub_file 'name_of_file.rb', 'method.to_be_replaced', 'method.the_replacing_code'
```
-Regular Expressions can be used to make this method more precise. You can also use append_file and prepend_file in the same way to place code at the beginning and end of a file respectively.
+Regular Expressions can be used to make this method more precise. You can also use `append_file` and `prepend_file` in the same way to place code at the beginning and end of a file respectively.
### `application`
diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md
index 8966eef76a..d9619bbc21 100644
--- a/guides/source/getting_started.md
+++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md
@@ -89,9 +89,9 @@ Open up a command line prompt. On Mac OS X open Terminal.app, on Windows choose
dollar sign `$` should be run in the command line. Verify that you have a
current version of Ruby installed:
-TIP. A number of tools exist to help you quickly install Ruby and Ruby
+TIP: A number of tools exist to help you quickly install Ruby and Ruby
on Rails on your system. Windows users can use [Rails Installer](http://railsinstaller.org),
-while Mac OS X users can use [Rails One Click](http://railsoneclick.com).
+while Mac OS X users can use [Tokaido](https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp).
```bash
$ ruby -v
@@ -122,10 +122,10 @@ To verify that you have everything installed correctly, you should be able to
run the following:
```bash
-$ rails --version
+$ bin/rails --version
```
-If it says something like "Rails 4.1.0", you are ready to continue.
+If it says something like "Rails 4.1.1", you are ready to continue.
### Creating the Blog Application
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ 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.|
-|bin/|Contains the rails script that starts your app and can contain other scripts you use to deploy or run your application.|
+|bin/|Contains the rails script that starts your app and can contain other scripts you use to setup, 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.|
|db/|Contains your current database schema, as well as the database migrations.|
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ start a web server on your development machine. You can do this by running the
following in the `blog` directory:
```bash
-$ rails server
+$ bin/rails server
```
TIP: Compiling CoffeeScript to JavaScript requires a JavaScript runtime and the
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ tell it you want a controller called "welcome" with an action called "index",
just like this:
```bash
-$ rails generate controller welcome index
+$ bin/rails generate controller welcome index
```
Rails will create several files and a route for you.
@@ -267,8 +267,9 @@ invoke scss
create app/assets/stylesheets/welcome.css.scss
```
-Most important of these are of course the controller, located at `app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb`
-and the view, located at `app/views/welcome/index.html.erb`.
+Most important of these are of course the controller, located at
+`app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb` and the view, located at
+`app/views/welcome/index.html.erb`.
Open the `app/views/welcome/index.html.erb` file in your text editor. Delete all
of the existing code in the file, and replace it with the following single line
@@ -358,7 +359,7 @@ will be seen later, but for now notice that Rails has inferred the
singular form `article` and makes meaningful use of the distinction.
```bash
-$ rake routes
+$ bin/rake routes
Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action
articles GET /articles(.:format) articles#index
POST /articles(.:format) articles#create
@@ -396,7 +397,7 @@ a controller called `ArticlesController`. You can do this by running this
command:
```bash
-$ rails g controller articles
+$ bin/rails g controller articles
```
If you open up the newly generated `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb`
@@ -427,19 +428,22 @@ are generated in Rails they are empty by default, unless you tell it
your wanted actions during the generation process.
To manually define an action inside a controller, all you need to do is to
-define a new method inside the controller.
-Open `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb` and inside the `ArticlesController`
-class, define a `new` method like this:
+define a new method inside the controller. Open
+`app/controllers/articles_controller.rb` and inside the `ArticlesController`
+class, define a `new` method so that the controller now looks like this:
```ruby
-def new
+class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
+ def new
+ end
end
```
With the `new` method defined in `ArticlesController`, if you refresh
<http://localhost:3000/articles/new> you'll see another error:
-![Template is missing for articles/new](images/getting_started/template_is_missing_articles_new.png)
+![Template is missing for articles/new]
+(images/getting_started/template_is_missing_articles_new.png)
You're getting this error now because Rails expects plain actions like this one
to have views associated with them to display their information. With no view
@@ -552,7 +556,7 @@ To see what Rails will do with this, we look back at the output of
`rake routes`:
```bash
-$ rake routes
+$ bin/rake routes
Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action
articles GET /articles(.:format) articles#index
POST /articles(.:format) articles#create
@@ -565,18 +569,18 @@ edit_article GET /articles/:id/edit(.:format) articles#edit
root GET / welcome#index
```
-The `articles_path` helper tells Rails to point the form
-to the URI Pattern associated with the `articles` prefix; and
-the form will (by default) send a `POST` request
-to that route. This is associated with the
-`create` action of the current controller, the `ArticlesController`.
+The `articles_path` helper tells Rails to point the form to the URI Pattern
+associated with the `articles` prefix; and the form will (by default) send a
+`POST` request to that route. This is associated with the `create` action of
+the current controller, the `ArticlesController`.
With the form and its associated route defined, you will be able to fill in the
form and then click the submit button to begin the process of creating a new
article, so go ahead and do that. When you submit the form, you should see a
familiar error:
-![Unknown action create for ArticlesController](images/getting_started/unknown_action_create_for_articles.png)
+![Unknown action create for ArticlesController]
+(images/getting_started/unknown_action_create_for_articles.png)
You now need to create the `create` action within the `ArticlesController` for
this to work.
@@ -585,7 +589,7 @@ this to work.
To make the "Unknown action" go away, you can define a `create` action within
the `ArticlesController` class in `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb`,
-underneath the `new` action:
+underneath the `new` action, as shown:
```ruby
class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
@@ -632,13 +636,13 @@ parameters but nothing in particular is being done with them.
### Creating the Article model
-Models in Rails use a singular name, and their corresponding database tables use
-a plural name. Rails provides a generator for creating models, which
-most Rails developers tend to use when creating new models.
-To create the new model, run this command in your terminal:
+Models in Rails use a singular name, and their corresponding database tables
+use a plural name. Rails provides a generator for creating models, which most
+Rails developers tend to use when creating new models. To create the new model,
+run this command in your terminal:
```bash
-$ rails generate model Article title:string text:text
+$ bin/rails generate model Article title:string text:text
```
With that command we told Rails that we want a `Article` model, together
@@ -646,26 +650,23 @@ 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.
-Rails responded by creating a bunch of files. For
-now, we're only interested in `app/models/article.rb` and
-`db/migrate/20140120191729_create_articles.rb` (your name could be a bit
-different). The latter is responsible
-for creating the database structure, which is what we'll look at next.
+Rails responded by creating a bunch of files. For now, we're only interested
+in `app/models/article.rb` and `db/migrate/20140120191729_create_articles.rb`
+(your name could be a bit different). The latter is responsible for creating
+the database structure, which is what we'll look at next.
-TIP: Active Record is smart enough to automatically map column names to
-model attributes, which means you don't have to declare attributes
-inside Rails models, as that will be done automatically by Active
-Record.
+TIP: Active Record is smart enough to automatically map column names to model
+attributes, which means you don't have to declare attributes inside Rails
+models, as that will be done automatically by Active Record.
### Running a Migration
-As we've just seen, `rails generate model` created a _database
-migration_ file inside the `db/migrate` directory.
-Migrations are Ruby classes that are designed to make it simple to
-create and modify database tables. Rails uses rake commands to run migrations,
-and it's possible to undo a migration after it's been applied to your database.
-Migration filenames include a timestamp to ensure that they're processed in the
-order that they were created.
+As we've just seen, `rails generate model` created a _database migration_ file
+inside the `db/migrate` directory. Migrations are Ruby classes that are
+designed to make it simple to create and modify database tables. Rails uses
+rake commands to run migrations, and it's possible to undo a migration after
+it's been applied to your database. Migration filenames include a timestamp to
+ensure that they're processed in the order that they were created.
If you look in the `db/migrate/20140120191729_create_articles.rb` file (remember,
yours will have a slightly different name), here's what you'll find:
@@ -690,13 +691,13 @@ 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 [Rails Database Migrations]
+(migrations.html).
At this point, you can use a rake command to run the migration:
```bash
-$ rake db:migrate
+$ bin/rake db:migrate
```
Rails will execute this migration command and tell you it created the Articles
@@ -733,49 +734,47 @@ end
Here's what's going on: every Rails model can be initialized with its
respective attributes, which are automatically mapped to the respective
-database columns. In the first line we do just that
-(remember that `params[:article]` contains the attributes we're interested in).
-Then, `@article.save` is responsible for saving the model in the database.
-Finally, we redirect the user to the `show` action, which we'll define later.
+database columns. In the first line we do just that (remember that
+`params[:article]` contains the attributes we're interested in). Then,
+`@article.save` is responsible for saving the model in the database. Finally,
+we redirect the user to the `show` action, which we'll define later.
-TIP: As we'll see later, `@article.save` returns a boolean indicating
-whether the article was saved or not.
+TIP: As we'll see later, `@article.save` returns a boolean indicating whether
+the article was saved or not.
-If you now go to
-<http://localhost:3000/articles/new> you'll *almost* be able to create an
-article. Try it! You should get an error that looks like this:
+If you now go to <http://localhost:3000/articles/new> you'll *almost* be able
+to create an article. Try it! You should get an error that looks like this:
-![Forbidden attributes for new article](images/getting_started/forbidden_attributes_for_new_article.png)
+![Forbidden attributes for new article]
+(images/getting_started/forbidden_attributes_for_new_article.png)
Rails has several security features that help you write secure applications,
-and you're running into one of them now. This one is called
-`[strong_parameters](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html#strong-parameters)`,
-which requires us to tell Rails exactly which parameters are allowed into
-our controller actions.
-
-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 be 'mass assigned' into your model and then into the
-database along with the good stuff - potentially breaking your application
-or worse.
-
-We have to whitelist our controller parameters to prevent wrongful
-mass assignment. In this case, we want to both allow and require the
-`title` and `text` parameters for valid use of `create`. The syntax for
-this introduces `require` and `permit`. The change will involve one line:
+and you're running into one of them now. This one is called `[strong_parameters]
+(http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html#strong-parameters)`,
+which requires us to tell Rails exactly which parameters are allowed into our
+controller actions.
+
+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
+be 'mass assigned' into your model and then into the database along with the
+good stuff - potentially breaking your application or worse.
+
+We have to whitelist our controller parameters to prevent wrongful mass
+assignment. In this case, we want to both allow and require the `title` and
+`text` parameters for valid use of `create`. The syntax for this introduces
+`require` and `permit`. The change will involve one line in the `create` action:
```ruby
@article = Article.new(params.require(:article).permit(:title, :text))
```
-This is often factored out into its own method so it can be reused by
-multiple actions in the same controller, for example `create` and `update`.
-Above and beyond mass assignment issues, the method is often made
-`private` to make sure it can't be called outside its intended context.
-Here is the result:
+This is often factored out into its own method so it can be reused by multiple
+actions in the same controller, for example `create` and `update`. Above and
+beyond mass assignment issues, the method is often made `private` to make sure
+it can't be called outside its intended context. Here is the result:
```ruby
def create
@@ -792,13 +791,14 @@ private
```
TIP: For more information, refer to the reference above and
-[this blog article about Strong Parameters](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/21/strong-parameters/).
+[this blog article about Strong Parameters]
+(http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/21/strong-parameters/).
### Showing Articles
-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.
+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.
As we have seen in the output of `rake routes`, the route for `show` action is
as follows:
@@ -813,10 +813,24 @@ parameter, which in our case will be the id of the article.
As we did before, we need to add the `show` action in
`app/controllers/articles_controller.rb` and its respective view.
+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.
+
+Given that, let's add the `show` action, as follows:
+
```ruby
-def show
- @article = Article.find(params[:id])
-end
+class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
+ def show
+ @article = Article.find(params[:id])
+ end
+
+ def new
+ end
+
+ # snipped for brevity
```
A couple of things to note. We use `Article.find` to find the article we're
@@ -855,12 +869,24 @@ articles GET /articles(.:format) articles#index
```
Add the corresponding `index` action for that route inside the
-`ArticlesController` in the `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb` file:
+`ArticlesController` in the `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb` file.
+When we write an `index` action, the usual practice is to place it as the
+first method in the controller. Let's do it:
```ruby
-def index
- @articles = Article.all
-end
+class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
+ def index
+ @articles = Article.all
+ end
+
+ def show
+ @article = Article.find(params[:id])
+ end
+
+ def new
+ end
+
+ # snipped for brevity
```
And then finally, add the view for this action, located at
@@ -913,8 +939,8 @@ Let's add links to the other views as well, starting with adding this
This link will allow you to bring up the form that lets you create a new article.
-Also add a link in `app/views/articles/new.html.erb`, underneath the form, to
-go back to the `index` action:
+Now, add another link in `app/views/articles/new.html.erb`, underneath the
+form, to go back to the `index` action:
```erb
<%= form_for :article, url: articles_path do |f| %>
@@ -924,7 +950,7 @@ go back to the `index` action:
<%= link_to 'Back', articles_path %>
```
-Finally, add another link to the `app/views/articles/show.html.erb` template to
+Finally, add a link to the `app/views/articles/show.html.erb` template to
go back to the `index` action as well, so that people who are viewing a single
article can go back and view the whole list again:
@@ -942,9 +968,9 @@ article can go back and view the whole list again:
<%= link_to 'Back', articles_path %>
```
-TIP: If you want to link to an action in the same controller, you don't
-need to specify the `:controller` option, as Rails will use the current
-controller by default.
+TIP: If you want to link to an action in the same controller, you don't need to
+specify the `:controller` option, as Rails will use the current controller by
+default.
TIP: In development mode (which is what you're working in by default), Rails
reloads your application with every browser request, so there's no need to stop
@@ -1089,12 +1115,27 @@ you attempt to do just that on the new article form
We've covered the "CR" part of CRUD. Now let's focus on the "U" part, updating
articles.
-The first step we'll take is adding an `edit` action to the `ArticlesController`.
+The first step we'll take is adding an `edit` action to the `ArticlesController`,
+generally between the `new` and `create` actions, as shown:
```ruby
+def new
+ @article = Article.new
+end
+
def edit
@article = Article.find(params[:id])
end
+
+def create
+ @article = Article.new(article_params)
+
+ if @article.save
+ redirect_to @article
+ else
+ render 'new'
+ end
+end
```
The view will contain a form similar to the one we used when creating
@@ -1148,14 +1189,26 @@ via the `PATCH` HTTP method which is the HTTP method you're expected to use to
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. More details
-can be found in [form_for documentation](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_for).
+symbol (`:article`) with the same name as the instance variable (`@article`)
+also automagically leads to the same behavior. This is what is happening here.
+More details can be found in [form_for documentation]
+(http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_for).
-Next we need to create the `update` action in
-`app/controllers/articles_controller.rb`:
+Next, we need to create the `update` action in
+`app/controllers/articles_controller.rb`.
+Add it between the `create` action and the `private` method:
```ruby
+def create
+ @article = Article.new(article_params)
+
+ if @article.save
+ redirect_to @article
+ else
+ render 'new'
+ end
+end
+
def update
@article = Article.find(params[:id])
@@ -1215,8 +1268,8 @@ bottom of the template:
```html+erb
...
-<%= link_to 'Back', articles_path %>
-| <%= link_to 'Edit', edit_article_path(@article) %>
+<%= link_to 'Back', articles_path %> |
+<%= link_to 'Edit', edit_article_path(@article) %>
```
And here's how our app looks so far:
@@ -1225,10 +1278,10 @@ And here's how our app looks so far:
### Using partials to clean up duplication in views
-Our `edit` page looks very similar to the `new` page, in fact they
-both share the same code for displaying the form. Let's remove some duplication
-by using a view partial. By convention, partial files are prefixed by an
-underscore.
+Our `edit` page looks very similar to the `new` page; in fact, they
+both share the same code for displaying the form. Let's remove this
+duplication by using a view partial. By convention, partial files are
+prefixed by an underscore.
TIP: You can read more about partials in the
[Layouts and Rendering in Rails](layouts_and_rendering.html) guide.
@@ -1275,8 +1328,8 @@ The reason we can use this shorter, simpler `form_for` declaration
to stand in for either of the other forms is that `@article` is a *resource*
corresponding to a full set of RESTful routes, and Rails is able to infer
which URI and method to use.
-For more information about this use of `form_for`, see
-[Resource-oriented style](//api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_for-label-Resource-oriented+style).
+For more information about this use of `form_for`, see [Resource-oriented style]
+(http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_for-label-Resource-oriented+style).
Now, let's update the `app/views/articles/new.html.erb` view to use this new
partial, rewriting it completely:
@@ -1317,9 +1370,11 @@ people to craft malicious URLs like this:
<a href='http://example.com/articles/1/destroy'>look at this cat!</a>
```
-We use the `delete` method for destroying resources, and this route is mapped to
-the `destroy` action inside `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb`, which
-doesn't exist yet, but is provided below:
+We use the `delete` method for destroying resources, and this route is mapped
+to the `destroy` action inside `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb`, which
+doesn't exist yet. The `destroy` method is generally the last CRUD action in
+the controller, and like the other public CRUD actions, it must be placed
+before any `private` or `protected` methods. Let's add it:
```ruby
def destroy
@@ -1330,13 +1385,67 @@ def destroy
end
```
+The complete `ArticlesController` in the
+`app/controllers/articles_controller.rb` file should now look like this:
+
+```ruby
+class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
+ def index
+ @articles = Article.all
+ end
+
+ def show
+ @article = Article.find(params[:id])
+ end
+
+ def new
+ @article = Article.new
+ end
+
+ def edit
+ @article = Article.find(params[:id])
+ end
+
+ def create
+ @article = Article.new(article_params)
+
+ if @article.save
+ redirect_to @article
+ else
+ render 'new'
+ end
+ end
+
+ def update
+ @article = Article.find(params[:id])
+
+ if @article.update(article_params)
+ redirect_to @article
+ else
+ render 'edit'
+ end
+ end
+
+ def destroy
+ @article = Article.find(params[:id])
+ @article.destroy
+
+ redirect_to articles_path
+ end
+
+ private
+ def article_params
+ params.require(:article).permit(:title, :text)
+ end
+end
+```
+
You can call `destroy` on Active Record objects when you want to delete
them from the database. Note that we don't need to add a view for this
action since we're redirecting to the `index` action.
Finally, add a 'Destroy' link to your `index` action template
-(`app/views/articles/index.html.erb`) to wrap everything
-together.
+(`app/views/articles/index.html.erb`) to wrap everything together.
```html+erb
<h1>Listing Articles</h1>
@@ -1376,9 +1485,8 @@ Without this file, the confirmation dialog box wouldn't appear.
Congratulations, you can now create, show, list, update and destroy
articles.
-TIP: In general, Rails encourages the use of resources objects in place
-of declaring routes manually.
-For more information about routing, see
+TIP: In general, Rails encourages using resources objects instead of
+declaring routes manually. For more information about routing, see
[Rails Routing from the Outside In](routing.html).
Adding a Second Model
@@ -1394,7 +1502,7 @@ the `Article` model. This time we'll create a `Comment` model to hold
reference of article comments. Run this command in your terminal:
```bash
-$ rails generate model Comment commenter:string body:text article:references
+$ bin/rails generate model Comment commenter:string body:text article:references
```
This command will generate four files:
@@ -1442,7 +1550,7 @@ the two models. An index for this association is also created on this column.
Go ahead and run the migration:
```bash
-$ rake db:migrate
+$ bin/rake db:migrate
```
Rails is smart enough to only execute the migrations that have not already been
@@ -1518,7 +1626,7 @@ With the model in hand, you can turn your attention to creating a matching
controller. Again, we'll use the same generator we used before:
```bash
-$ rails generate controller Comments
+$ bin/rails generate controller Comments
```
This creates six files and one empty directory:
@@ -1840,7 +1948,7 @@ database and send us back to the show action for the article.
### Deleting Associated Objects
If you delete an article, its associated comments will also need to be
-deleted. Otherwise they would simply occupy space in the database. Rails allows
+deleted, otherwise they would simply occupy space in the database. Rails allows
you to use the `dependent` option of an association to achieve this. Modify the
Article model, `app/models/article.rb`, as follows:
@@ -1895,7 +2003,7 @@ class CommentsController < ApplicationController
def create
@article = Article.find(params[:article_id])
- ...
+ # ...
end
# snipped for brevity
diff --git a/guides/source/i18n.md b/guides/source/i18n.md
index c1b575c7b7..0eba3af6e8 100644
--- a/guides/source/i18n.md
+++ b/guides/source/i18n.md
@@ -712,6 +712,19 @@ en:
Then `User.model_name.human(count: 2)` will return "Dudes". With `count: 1` or without params will return "Dude".
+In the event you need to access nested attributes within a given model, you should nest these under `model/attribute` at the model level of your translation file:
+
+```yaml
+en:
+ activerecord:
+ attributes:
+ user/gender:
+ female: "Female"
+ male: "Male"
+```
+
+Then `User.human_attribute_name("gender.female")` will return "Female".
+
#### Error Message Scopes
Active Record validation error messages can also be translated easily. Active Record gives you a couple of namespaces where you can place your message translations in order to provide different messages and translation for certain models, attributes, and/or validations. It also transparently takes single table inheritance into account.
diff --git a/guides/source/index.html.erb b/guides/source/index.html.erb
index 57c224c165..2fdf18a2e9 100644
--- a/guides/source/index.html.erb
+++ b/guides/source/index.html.erb
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Ruby on Rails Guides
<% content_for :index_section do %>
<div id="subCol">
<dl>
+ <dt></dt>
<dd class="kindle">Rails Guides are also available for <%= link_to 'Kindle', @mobi %>.</dd>
<dd class="work-in-progress">Guides marked with this icon are currently being worked on and will not be available in the Guides Index menu. While still useful, they may contain incomplete information and even errors. You can help by reviewing them and posting your comments and corrections.</dd>
</dl>
diff --git a/guides/source/layout.html.erb b/guides/source/layout.html.erb
index 1ac4e7f40c..1005057ca9 100644
--- a/guides/source/layout.html.erb
+++ b/guides/source/layout.html.erb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
@@ -36,7 +35,6 @@
<li class="more-info"><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails">Code</a></li>
<li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts">Screencasts</a></li>
<li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/documentation">Documentation</a></li>
- <li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/ecosystem">Ecosystem</a></li>
<li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/community">Community</a></li>
<li class="more-info"><a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/">Blog</a></li>
</ul>
@@ -78,7 +76,6 @@
</select>
</li>
</ul>
- </div>
</div>
</div>
<hr class="hide" />
diff --git a/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md b/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md
index bd33c5a146..5b75540c05 100644
--- a/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md
+++ b/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md
@@ -506,33 +506,33 @@ Layout declarations cascade downward in the hierarchy, and more specific layout
end
```
-* `posts_controller.rb`
+* `articles_controller.rb`
```ruby
- class PostsController < ApplicationController
+ class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
end
```
-* `special_posts_controller.rb`
+* `special_articles_controller.rb`
```ruby
- class SpecialPostsController < PostsController
+ class SpecialArticlesController < ArticlesController
layout "special"
end
```
-* `old_posts_controller.rb`
+* `old_articles_controller.rb`
```ruby
- class OldPostsController < SpecialPostsController
+ class OldArticlesController < SpecialArticlesController
layout false
def show
- @post = Post.find(params[:id])
+ @article = Article.find(params[:id])
end
def index
- @old_posts = Post.older
+ @old_articles = Article.older
render layout: "old"
end
# ...
@@ -542,10 +542,10 @@ Layout declarations cascade downward in the hierarchy, and more specific layout
In this application:
* In general, views will be rendered in the `main` layout
-* `PostsController#index` will use the `main` layout
-* `SpecialPostsController#index` will use the `special` layout
-* `OldPostsController#show` will use no layout at all
-* `OldPostsController#index` will use the `old` layout
+* `ArticlesController#index` will use the `main` layout
+* `SpecialArticlesController#index` will use the `special` layout
+* `OldArticlesController#show` will use no layout at all
+* `OldArticlesController#index` will use the `old` layout
#### Avoiding Double Render Errors
diff --git a/guides/source/maintenance_policy.md b/guides/source/maintenance_policy.md
index 8f119f36aa..6f8584b3b7 100644
--- a/guides/source/maintenance_policy.md
+++ b/guides/source/maintenance_policy.md
@@ -3,10 +3,29 @@ Maintenance Policy for Ruby on Rails
Support of the Rails framework is divided into four groups: New features, bug
fixes, security issues, and severe security issues. They are handled as
-follows, all versions in x.y.z format
+follows, all versions in `X.Y.Z` format.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Rails follows a shifted version of [semver](http://semver.org/):
+
+**Patch `Z`**
+
+Only bug fixes, no API changes, no new features.
+Except as necessary for security fixes.
+
+**Minor `Y`**
+
+New features, may contain API changes (Serve as major versions of Semver).
+Breaking changes are paired with deprecation notices in the previous minor
+or major release.
+
+**Major `X`**
+
+New features, will likely contain API changes. The difference between Rails'
+minor and major releases is the magnitude of breaking changes, and usually
+reserved for special occasions.
+
New Features
------------
@@ -20,7 +39,7 @@ Only the latest release series will receive bug fixes. When enough bugs are
fixed and its deemed worthy to release a new gem, this is the branch it happens
from.
-**Currently included series:** 4.1.z, 4.0.z
+**Currently included series:** `4.1.Z`, `4.0.Z`.
Security Issues
---------------
@@ -35,7 +54,7 @@ be built from 1.2.2, and then added to the end of 1-2-stable. This means that
security releases are easy to upgrade to if you're running the latest version
of Rails.
-**Currently included series:** 4.1.z, 4.0.z
+**Currently included series:** `4.1.Z`, `4.0.Z`.
Severe Security Issues
----------------------
@@ -44,7 +63,7 @@ For severe security issues we will provide new versions as above, and also the
last major release series will receive patches and new versions. The
classification of the security issue is judged by the core team.
-**Currently included series:** 4.1.z, 4.0.z, 3.2.z
+**Currently included series:** `4.1.Z`, `4.0.Z`, `3.2.Z`.
Unsupported Release Series
--------------------------
diff --git a/guides/source/migrations.md b/guides/source/migrations.md
index c61ccfe94a..6742c05946 100644
--- a/guides/source/migrations.md
+++ b/guides/source/migrations.md
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Of course, calculating timestamps is no fun, so Active Record provides a
generator to handle making it for you:
```bash
-$ rails generate migration AddPartNumberToProducts
+$ bin/rails generate migration AddPartNumberToProducts
```
This will create an empty but appropriately named migration:
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ followed by a list of column names and types then a migration containing the
appropriate `add_column` and `remove_column` statements will be created.
```bash
-$ rails generate migration AddPartNumberToProducts part_number:string
+$ bin/rails generate migration AddPartNumberToProducts part_number:string
```
will generate
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ end
If you'd like to add an index on the new column, you can do that as well:
```bash
-$ rails generate migration AddPartNumberToProducts part_number:string:index
+$ bin/rails generate migration AddPartNumberToProducts part_number:string:index
```
will generate
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ end
Similarly, you can generate a migration to remove a column from the command line:
```bash
-$ rails generate migration RemovePartNumberFromProducts part_number:string
+$ bin/rails generate migration RemovePartNumberFromProducts part_number:string
```
generates
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ end
You are not limited to one magically generated column. For example:
```bash
-$ rails generate migration AddDetailsToProducts part_number:string price:decimal
+$ bin/rails generate migration AddDetailsToProducts part_number:string price:decimal
```
generates
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ followed by a list of column names and types then a migration creating the table
XXX with the columns listed will be generated. For example:
```bash
-$ rails generate migration CreateProducts name:string part_number:string
+$ bin/rails generate migration CreateProducts name:string part_number:string
```
generates
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Also, the generator accepts column type as `references`(also available as
`belongs_to`). For instance:
```bash
-$ rails generate migration AddUserRefToProducts user:references
+$ bin/rails generate migration AddUserRefToProducts user:references
```
generates
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ This migration will create a `user_id` column and appropriate index.
There is also a generator which will produce join tables if `JoinTable` is part of the name:
```bash
-rails g migration CreateJoinTableCustomerProduct customer product
+$ bin/rails g migration CreateJoinTableCustomerProduct customer product
```
will produce the following migration:
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ relevant table. If you tell Rails what columns you want, then statements for
adding these columns will also be created. For example, running:
```bash
-$ rails generate model Product name:string description:text
+$ bin/rails generate model Product name:string description:text
```
will create a migration that looks like this
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ braces. You can use the following modifiers:
For instance, running:
```bash
-$ rails generate migration AddDetailsToProducts 'price:decimal{5,2}' supplier:references{polymorphic}
+$ bin/rails generate migration AddDetailsToProducts 'price:decimal{5,2}' supplier:references{polymorphic}
```
will produce a migration that looks like this
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ is the numerical prefix on the migration's filename. For example, to migrate
to version 20080906120000 run:
```bash
-$ rake db:migrate VERSION=20080906120000
+$ bin/rake db:migrate VERSION=20080906120000
```
If version 20080906120000 is greater than the current version (i.e., it is
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ mistake in it and wish to correct it. Rather than tracking down the version
number associated with the previous migration you can run:
```bash
-$ rake db:rollback
+$ bin/rake db:rollback
```
This will rollback the latest migration, either by reverting the `change`
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ method or by running the `down` method. If you need to undo
several migrations you can provide a `STEP` parameter:
```bash
-$ rake db:rollback STEP=3
+$ bin/rake db:rollback STEP=3
```
will revert the last 3 migrations.
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ back up again. As with the `db:rollback` task, you can use the `STEP` parameter
if you need to go more than one version back, for example:
```bash
-$ rake db:migrate:redo STEP=3
+$ bin/rake db:migrate:redo STEP=3
```
Neither of these Rake tasks do anything you could not do with `db:migrate`. They
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ the corresponding migration will have its `change`, `up` or `down` method
invoked, for example:
```bash
-$ rake db:migrate:up VERSION=20080906120000
+$ bin/rake db:migrate:up VERSION=20080906120000
```
will run the 20080906120000 migration by running the `change` method (or the
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ To run migrations against another environment you can specify it using the
migrations against the `test` environment you could run:
```bash
-$ rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test
+$ bin/rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test
```
### Changing the Output of Running Migrations
@@ -902,6 +902,11 @@ schema into a RDBMS other than the one used to create it.
Because schema dumps are the authoritative source for your database schema, it
is strongly recommended that you check them into source control.
+`db/schema.rb` contains the current version number of the database. This
+ensures conflicts are going to happen in the case of a merge where both
+branches touched the schema. When that happens, solve conflicts manually,
+keeping the highest version number of the two.
+
Active Record and Referential Integrity
---------------------------------------
diff --git a/guides/source/plugins.md b/guides/source/plugins.md
index fe4215839f..a35648d341 100644
--- a/guides/source/plugins.md
+++ b/guides/source/plugins.md
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ to run integration tests using a dummy Rails application. Create your
plugin with the command:
```bash
-$ rails plugin new yaffle
+$ bin/rails plugin new yaffle
```
See usage and options by asking for help:
```bash
-$ rails plugin --help
+$ bin/rails plugin --help
```
Testing Your Newly Generated Plugin
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ To test that your method does what it says it does, run the unit tests with `rak
To see this in action, change to the test/dummy directory, fire up a console and start squawking:
```bash
-$ rails console
+$ bin/rails console
>> "Hello World".to_squawk
=> "squawk! Hello World"
```
@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ test/dummy directory:
```bash
$ cd test/dummy
-$ rails generate model Hickwall last_squawk:string
-$ rails generate model Wickwall last_squawk:string last_tweet:string
+$ bin/rails generate model Hickwall last_squawk:string
+$ bin/rails generate model Wickwall last_squawk:string last_tweet:string
```
Now you can create the necessary database tables in your testing database by navigating to your dummy app
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ and migrating the database. First, run:
```bash
$ cd test/dummy
-$ rake db:migrate
+$ bin/rake db:migrate
```
While you are here, change the Hickwall and Wickwall models so that they know that they are supposed to act
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ Once your README is solid, go through and add rdoc comments to all of the method
Once your comments are good to go, navigate to your plugin directory and run:
```bash
-$ rake rdoc
+$ bin/rake rdoc
```
### References
diff --git a/guides/source/rails_application_templates.md b/guides/source/rails_application_templates.md
index e4222e1283..0bd608c007 100644
--- a/guides/source/rails_application_templates.md
+++ b/guides/source/rails_application_templates.md
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ $ rails new blog -m http://example.com/template.rb
You can use the rake task `rails:template` to apply templates to an existing Rails application. The location of the template needs to be passed in to an environment variable named LOCATION. Again, this can either be path to a file or a URL.
```bash
-$ rake rails:template LOCATION=~/template.rb
-$ rake rails:template LOCATION=http://example.com/template.rb
+$ bin/rake rails:template LOCATION=~/template.rb
+$ bin/rake rails:template LOCATION=http://example.com/template.rb
```
Template API
diff --git a/guides/source/rails_on_rack.md b/guides/source/rails_on_rack.md
index b1b4c8fa4e..9053f31b8e 100644
--- a/guides/source/rails_on_rack.md
+++ b/guides/source/rails_on_rack.md
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ NOTE: `ActionDispatch::MiddlewareStack` is Rails equivalent of `Rack::Builder`,
Rails has a handy rake task for inspecting the middleware stack in use:
```bash
-$ rake middleware
+$ bin/rake middleware
```
For a freshly generated Rails application, this might produce something like:
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ And now if you inspect the middleware stack, you'll find that `Rack::Lock` is
not a part of it.
```bash
-$ rake middleware
+$ bin/rake middleware
(in /Users/lifo/Rails/blog)
use ActionDispatch::Static
use #<ActiveSupport::Cache::Strategy::LocalCache::Middleware:0x00000001c304c8>
diff --git a/guides/source/routing.md b/guides/source/routing.md
index 0783bce442..c8f8ba3044 100644
--- a/guides/source/routing.md
+++ b/guides/source/routing.md
@@ -183,61 +183,61 @@ You may wish to organize groups of controllers under a namespace. Most commonly,
```ruby
namespace :admin do
- resources :posts, :comments
+ resources :articles, :comments
end
```
-This will create a number of routes for each of the `posts` and `comments` controller. For `Admin::PostsController`, Rails will create:
+This will create a number of routes for each of the `articles` and `comments` controller. For `Admin::ArticlesController`, Rails will create:
-| HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
-| --------- | --------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------------- |
-| GET | /admin/posts | admin/posts#index | admin_posts_path |
-| GET | /admin/posts/new | admin/posts#new | new_admin_post_path |
-| POST | /admin/posts | admin/posts#create | admin_posts_path |
-| GET | /admin/posts/:id | admin/posts#show | admin_post_path(:id) |
-| GET | /admin/posts/:id/edit | admin/posts#edit | edit_admin_post_path(:id) |
-| PATCH/PUT | /admin/posts/:id | admin/posts#update | admin_post_path(:id) |
-| DELETE | /admin/posts/:id | admin/posts#destroy | admin_post_path(:id) |
+| HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
+| --------- | ------------------------ | ---------------------- | ---------------------------- |
+| GET | /admin/articles | admin/articles#index | admin_articles_path |
+| GET | /admin/articles/new | admin/articles#new | new_admin_article_path |
+| POST | /admin/articles | admin/articles#create | admin_articles_path |
+| GET | /admin/articles/:id | admin/articles#show | admin_article_path(:id) |
+| GET | /admin/articles/:id/edit | admin/articles#edit | edit_admin_article_path(:id) |
+| PATCH/PUT | /admin/articles/:id | admin/articles#update | admin_article_path(:id) |
+| DELETE | /admin/articles/:id | admin/articles#destroy | admin_article_path(:id) |
-If you want to route `/posts` (without the prefix `/admin`) to `Admin::PostsController`, you could use:
+If you want to route `/articles` (without the prefix `/admin`) to `Admin::ArticlesController`, you could use:
```ruby
scope module: 'admin' do
- resources :posts, :comments
+ resources :articles, :comments
end
```
or, for a single case:
```ruby
-resources :posts, module: 'admin'
+resources :articles, module: 'admin'
```
-If you want to route `/admin/posts` to `PostsController` (without the `Admin::` module prefix), you could use:
+If you want to route `/admin/articles` to `ArticlesController` (without the `Admin::` module prefix), you could use:
```ruby
scope '/admin' do
- resources :posts, :comments
+ resources :articles, :comments
end
```
or, for a single case:
```ruby
-resources :posts, path: '/admin/posts'
+resources :articles, path: '/admin/articles'
```
In each of these cases, the named routes remain the same as if you did not use `scope`. In the last case, the following paths map to `PostsController`:
-| HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
-| --------- | --------------------- | ----------------- | ------------------- |
-| GET | /admin/posts | posts#index | posts_path |
-| GET | /admin/posts/new | posts#new | new_post_path |
-| POST | /admin/posts | posts#create | posts_path |
-| GET | /admin/posts/:id | posts#show | post_path(:id) |
-| GET | /admin/posts/:id/edit | posts#edit | edit_post_path(:id) |
-| PATCH/PUT | /admin/posts/:id | posts#update | post_path(:id) |
-| DELETE | /admin/posts/:id | posts#destroy | post_path(:id) |
+| HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
+| --------- | ------------------------ | -------------------- | ---------------------- |
+| GET | /admin/articles | articles#index | articles_path |
+| GET | /admin/articles/new | articles#new | new_article_path |
+| POST | /admin/articles | articles#create | articles_path |
+| GET | /admin/articles/:id | articles#show | article_path(:id) |
+| GET | /admin/articles/:id/edit | articles#edit | edit_article_path(:id) |
+| 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'`._
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ TIP: _Resources should never be nested more than 1 level deep._
One way to avoid deep nesting (as recommended above) is to generate the collection actions scoped under the parent, so as to get a sense of the hierarchy, but to not nest the member actions. In other words, to only build routes with the minimal amount of information to uniquely identify the resource, like this:
```ruby
-resources :posts do
+resources :articles do
resources :comments, only: [:index, :new, :create]
end
resources :comments, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ resources :comments, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
This idea strikes a balance between descriptive routes and deep nesting. There exists shorthand syntax to achieve just that, via the `:shallow` option:
```ruby
-resources :posts do
+resources :articles do
resources :comments, shallow: true
end
```
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ end
This will generate the exact same routes as the first example. You can also specify the `:shallow` option in the parent resource, in which case all of the nested resources will be shallow:
```ruby
-resources :posts, shallow: true do
+resources :articles, shallow: true do
resources :comments
resources :quotes
resources :drafts
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ The `shallow` method of the DSL creates a scope inside of which every nesting is
```ruby
shallow do
- resources :posts do
+ resources :articles do
resources :comments
resources :quotes
resources :drafts
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ There exist two options for `scope` to customize shallow routes. `:shallow_path`
```ruby
scope shallow_path: "sekret" do
- resources :posts do
+ resources :articles do
resources :comments, shallow: true
end
end
@@ -352,21 +352,21 @@ end
The comments resource here will have the following routes generated for it:
-| HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
-| --------- | -------------------------------------- | ----------------- | --------------------- |
-| GET | /posts/:post_id/comments(.:format) | comments#index | post_comments_path |
-| POST | /posts/:post_id/comments(.:format) | comments#create | post_comments_path |
-| GET | /posts/:post_id/comments/new(.:format) | comments#new | new_post_comment_path |
-| GET | /sekret/comments/:id/edit(.:format) | comments#edit | edit_comment_path |
-| GET | /sekret/comments/:id(.:format) | comments#show | comment_path |
-| PATCH/PUT | /sekret/comments/:id(.:format) | comments#update | comment_path |
-| DELETE | /sekret/comments/:id(.:format) | comments#destroy | comment_path |
+| HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
+| --------- | -------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ------------------------ |
+| GET | /articles/:article_id/comments(.:format) | comments#index | article_comments_path |
+| POST | /articles/:article_id/comments(.:format) | comments#create | article_comments_path |
+| GET | /articles/:article_id/comments/new(.:format) | comments#new | new_article_comment_path |
+| GET | /sekret/comments/:id/edit(.:format) | comments#edit | edit_comment_path |
+| GET | /sekret/comments/:id(.:format) | comments#show | comment_path |
+| PATCH/PUT | /sekret/comments/:id(.:format) | comments#update | comment_path |
+| DELETE | /sekret/comments/:id(.:format) | comments#destroy | comment_path |
The `:shallow_prefix` option adds the specified parameter to the named helpers:
```ruby
scope shallow_prefix: "sekret" do
- resources :posts do
+ resources :articles do
resources :comments, shallow: true
end
end
@@ -374,15 +374,15 @@ end
The comments resource here will have the following routes generated for it:
-| HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
-| --------- | -------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ------------------------ |
-| GET | /posts/:post_id/comments(.:format) | comments#index | post_comments_path |
-| POST | /posts/:post_id/comments(.:format) | comments#create | post_comments_path |
-| GET | /posts/:post_id/comments/new(.:format) | comments#new | new_post_comment_path |
-| GET | /comments/:id/edit(.:format) | comments#edit | edit_sekret_comment_path |
-| GET | /comments/:id(.:format) | comments#show | sekret_comment_path |
-| PATCH/PUT | /comments/:id(.:format) | comments#update | sekret_comment_path |
-| DELETE | /comments/:id(.:format) | comments#destroy | sekret_comment_path |
+| HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
+| --------- | -------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | --------------------------- |
+| GET | /articles/:article_id/comments(.:format) | comments#index | article_comments_path |
+| POST | /articles/:article_id/comments(.:format) | comments#create | article_comments_path |
+| GET | /articles/:article_id/comments/new(.:format) | comments#new | new_article_comment_path |
+| GET | /comments/:id/edit(.:format) | comments#edit | edit_sekret_comment_path |
+| GET | /comments/:id(.:format) | comments#show | sekret_comment_path |
+| PATCH/PUT | /comments/:id(.:format) | comments#update | sekret_comment_path |
+| DELETE | /comments/:id(.:format) | comments#destroy | sekret_comment_path |
### Routing concerns
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ These concerns can be used in resources to avoid code duplication and share beha
```ruby
resources :messages, concerns: :commentable
-resources :posts, concerns: [:commentable, :image_attachable]
+resources :articles, concerns: [:commentable, :image_attachable]
```
The above is equivalent to:
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ resources :messages do
resources :comments
end
-resources :posts do
+resources :articles do
resources :comments
resources :images, only: :index
end
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ end
Also you can use them in any place that you want inside the routes, for example in a scope or namespace call:
```ruby
-namespace :posts do
+namespace :articles do
concerns :commentable
end
```
@@ -662,26 +662,26 @@ get 'photos/:id', to: 'photos#show', id: /[A-Z]\d{5}/
`:constraints` takes regular expressions with the restriction that regexp anchors can't be used. For example, the following route will not work:
```ruby
-get '/:id', to: 'posts#show', constraints: {id: /^\d/}
+get '/:id', to: 'articles#show', constraints: { id: /^\d/ }
```
However, note that you don't need to use anchors because all routes are anchored at the start.
-For example, the following routes would allow for `posts` with `to_param` values like `1-hello-world` that always begin with a number and `users` with `to_param` values like `david` that never begin with a number to share the root namespace:
+For example, the following routes would allow for `articles` with `to_param` values like `1-hello-world` that always begin with a number and `users` with `to_param` values like `david` that never begin with a number to share the root namespace:
```ruby
-get '/:id', to: 'posts#show', constraints: { id: /\d.+/ }
+get '/:id', to: 'articles#show', constraints: { id: /\d.+/ }
get '/:username', to: 'users#show'
```
### Request-Based Constraints
-You can also constrain a route based on any method on the <a href="action_controller_overview.html#the-request-object">Request</a> object that returns a `String`.
+You can also constrain a route based on any method on the [Request object](action_controller_overview.html#the-request-object) that returns a `String`.
You specify a request-based constraint the same way that you specify a segment constraint:
```ruby
-get 'photos', constraints: {subdomain: 'admin'}
+get 'photos', constraints: { subdomain: 'admin' }
```
You can also specify constraints in a block form:
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ namespace :admin do
end
```
-NOTE: Request constraints work by calling a method on the <a href="action_controller_overview.html#the-request-object">Request object</a> with the same name as the hash key and then compare the return value with the hash value. Therefore, constraint values should match the corresponding Request object method return type. For example: `constraints: { subdomain: 'api' }` will match an `api` subdomain as expected, however using a symbol `constraints: { subdomain: :api }` will not, because `request.subdomain` returns `'api'` as a String.
+NOTE: Request constraints work by calling a method on the [Request object](action_controller_overview.html#the-request-object) with the same name as the hash key and then compare the return value with the hash value. Therefore, constraint values should match the corresponding Request object method return type. For example: `constraints: { subdomain: 'api' }` will match an `api` subdomain as expected, however using a symbol `constraints: { subdomain: :api }` will not, because `request.subdomain` returns `'api'` as a String.
### Advanced Constraints
@@ -771,20 +771,20 @@ get '*pages', to: 'pages#show', format: true
You can redirect any path to another path using the `redirect` helper in your router:
```ruby
-get '/stories', to: redirect('/posts')
+get '/stories', to: redirect('/articles')
```
You can also reuse dynamic segments from the match in the path to redirect to:
```ruby
-get '/stories/:name', to: redirect('/posts/%{name}')
+get '/stories/:name', to: redirect('/articles/%{name}')
```
You can also provide a block to redirect, which receives the symbolized path parameters and the request object:
```ruby
-get '/stories/:name', to: redirect {|path_params, req| "/posts/#{path_params[:name].pluralize}" }
-get '/stories', to: redirect {|path_params, req| "/posts/#{req.subdomain}" }
+get '/stories/:name', to: redirect { |path_params, req| "/articles/#{path_params[:name].pluralize}" }
+get '/stories', to: redirect { |path_params, req| "/articles/#{req.subdomain}" }
```
Please note that this redirection is a 301 "Moved Permanently" redirect. Keep in mind that some web browsers or proxy servers will cache this type of redirect, making the old page inaccessible.
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ In all of these cases, if you don't provide the leading host (`http://www.exampl
### Routing to Rack Applications
-Instead of a String like `'posts#index'`, which corresponds to the `index` action in the `PostsController`, you can specify any <a href="rails_on_rack.html">Rack application</a> as the endpoint for a matcher:
+Instead of a String like `'articles#index'`, which corresponds to the `index` action in the `ArticlesController`, you can specify any [Rack application](rails_on_rack.html) as the endpoint for a matcher:
```ruby
match '/application.js', to: Sprockets, via: :all
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ match '/application.js', to: Sprockets, via: :all
As long as `Sprockets` responds to `call` and returns a `[status, headers, body]`, the router won't know the difference between the Rack application and an action. This is an appropriate use of `via: :all`, as you will want to allow your Rack application to handle all verbs as it considers appropriate.
-NOTE: For the curious, `'posts#index'` actually expands out to `PostsController.action(:index)`, which returns a valid Rack application.
+NOTE: For the curious, `'articles#index'` actually expands out to `ArticlesController.action(:index)`, which returns a valid Rack application.
### Using `root`
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ get 'こんにちは', to: 'welcome#index'
Customizing Resourceful Routes
------------------------------
-While the default routes and helpers generated by `resources :posts` will usually serve you well, you may want to customize them in some way. Rails allows you to customize virtually any generic part of the resourceful helpers.
+While the default routes and helpers generated by `resources :articles` will usually serve you well, you may want to customize them in some way. Rails allows you to customize virtually any generic part of the resourceful helpers.
### Specifying a Controller to Use
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ a warning.
You can use the `:constraints` option to specify a required format on the implicit `id`. For example:
```ruby
-resources :photos, constraints: {id: /[A-Z][A-Z][0-9]+/}
+resources :photos, constraints: { id: /[A-Z][A-Z][0-9]+/ }
```
This declaration constrains the `:id` parameter to match the supplied regular expression. So, in this case, the router would no longer match `/photos/1` to this route. Instead, `/photos/RR27` would match.
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ will recognize incoming paths beginning with `/photos` and route the requests to
### Overriding the `new` and `edit` Segments
-The `:path_names` option lets you override the automatically-generated "new" and "edit" segments in paths:
+The `:path_names` option lets you override the automatically-generated `new` and `edit` segments in paths:
```ruby
resources :photos, path_names: { new: 'make', edit: 'change' }
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ end
resources :photos
```
-This will provide route helpers such as `admin_photos_path`, `new_admin_photo_path` etc.
+This will provide route helpers such as `admin_photos_path`, `new_admin_photo_path`, etc.
To prefix a group of route helpers, use `:as` with `scope`:
@@ -974,15 +974,15 @@ You can prefix routes with a named parameter also:
```ruby
scope ':username' do
- resources :posts
+ resources :articles
end
```
-This will provide you with URLs such as `/bob/posts/1` and will allow you to reference the `username` part of the path as `params[:username]` in controllers, helpers and views.
+This will provide you with URLs such as `/bob/articles/1` and will allow you to reference the `username` part of the path as `params[:username]` in controllers, helpers and views.
### Restricting the Routes Created
-By default, Rails creates routes for the seven default actions (index, show, new, create, edit, update, and destroy) for every RESTful route in your application. You can use the `:only` and `:except` options to fine-tune this behavior. The `:only` option tells Rails to create only the specified routes:
+By default, Rails creates routes for the seven default actions (`index`, `show`, `new`, `create`, `edit`, `update`, and `destroy`) for every RESTful route in your application. You can use the `:only` and `:except` options to fine-tune this behavior. The `:only` option tells Rails to create only the specified routes:
```ruby
resources :photos, only: [:index, :show]
@@ -1044,6 +1044,28 @@ end
This will create routing helpers such as `magazine_periodical_ads_url` and `edit_magazine_periodical_ad_path`.
+### Overriding Named Route Parameters
+
+The `:param` option overrides the default resource identifier `:id` (name of
+the [dynamic segment](routing.html#dynamic-segments) used to generate the
+routes). You can access that segment from your controller using
+`params[<:param>]`.
+
+```ruby
+resources :videos, param: :identifier
+```
+
+```
+ videos GET /videos(.:format) videos#index
+ POST /videos(.:format) videos#create
+ new_videos GET /videos/new(.:format) videos#new
+edit_videos GET /videos/:identifier/edit(.:format) videos#edit
+```
+
+```ruby
+Video.find_by(identifier: params[:identifier])
+```
+
Inspecting and Testing Routes
-----------------------------
@@ -1072,7 +1094,7 @@ edit_user GET /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit
You may restrict the listing to the routes that map to a particular controller setting the `CONTROLLER` environment variable:
```bash
-$ CONTROLLER=users rake routes
+$ CONTROLLER=users bin/rake routes
```
TIP: You'll find that the output from `rake routes` is much more readable if you widen your terminal window until the output lines don't wrap.
diff --git a/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.md b/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.md
index 8faf03e58c..f0230b428b 100644
--- a/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.md
+++ b/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ After reading this guide, you will know:
Markdown
-------
-Guides are written in [GitHub Flavored Markdown](http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/). There is comprehensive [documentation for Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax), a [cheatsheet](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics), and [additional documentation](http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/) on the differences from traditional Markdown.
+Guides are written in [GitHub Flavored Markdown](https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown). There is comprehensive [documentation for Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax), a [cheatsheet](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics).
Prologue
--------
diff --git a/guides/source/security.md b/guides/source/security.md
index 0d347c9e4b..75d8c8e4c8 100644
--- a/guides/source/security.md
+++ b/guides/source/security.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ After reading this guide, you will know:
Introduction
------------
-Web application frameworks are made to help developers build web applications. Some of them also help you with securing the web application. In fact one framework is not more secure than another: If you use it correctly, you will be able to build secure apps with many frameworks. Ruby on Rails has some clever helper methods, for example against SQL injection, so that this is hardly a problem. It's nice to see that all of the Rails applications I audited had a good level of security.
+Web application frameworks are made to help developers build web applications. Some of them also help you with securing the web application. In fact one framework is not more secure than another: If you use it correctly, you will be able to build secure apps with many frameworks. Ruby on Rails has some clever helper methods, for example against SQL injection, so that this is hardly a problem.
In general there is no such thing as plug-n-play security. Security depends on the people using the framework, and sometimes on the development method. And it depends on all layers of a web application environment: The back-end storage, the web server and the web application itself (and possibly other layers or applications).
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ The Gartner Group however estimates that 75% of attacks are at the web applicati
The threats against web applications include user account hijacking, bypass of access control, reading or modifying sensitive data, or presenting fraudulent content. Or an attacker might be able to install a Trojan horse program or unsolicited e-mail sending software, aim at financial enrichment or cause brand name damage by modifying company resources. In order to prevent attacks, minimize their impact and remove points of attack, first of all, you have to fully understand the attack methods in order to find the correct countermeasures. That is what this guide aims at.
-In order to develop secure web applications you have to keep up to date on all layers and know your enemies. To keep up to date subscribe to security mailing lists, read security blogs and make updating and security checks a habit (check the <a href="#additional-resources">Additional Resources</a> chapter). I do it manually because that's how you find the nasty logical security problems.
+In order to develop secure web applications you have to keep up to date on all layers and know your enemies. To keep up to date subscribe to security mailing lists, read security blogs and make updating and security checks a habit (check the <a href="#additional-resources">Additional Resources</a> chapter). It is done manually because that's how you find the nasty logical security problems.
Sessions
--------
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ NOTE: _Apart from stealing a user's session id, the attacker may fix a session i
This attack focuses on fixing a user's session id known to the attacker, and forcing the user's browser into using this id. It is therefore not necessary for the attacker to steal the session id afterwards. Here is how this attack works:
* The attacker creates a valid session id: They load the login page of the web application where they want to fix the session, and take the session id in the cookie from the response (see number 1 and 2 in the image).
-* They possibly maintains the session. Expiring sessions, for example every 20 minutes, greatly reduces the time-frame for attack. Therefore they access the web application from time to time in order to keep the session alive.
-* Now the attacker will force the user's browser into using this session id (see number 3 in the image). As you may not change a cookie of another domain (because of the same origin policy), the attacker has to run a JavaScript from the domain of the target web application. Injecting the JavaScript code into the application by XSS accomplishes this attack. Here is an example: `<script>document.cookie="_session_id=16d5b78abb28e3d6206b60f22a03c8d9";</script>`. Read more about XSS and injection later on.
+* They maintain the session by accessing the web application periodically in order to keep an expiring session alive.
+* The attacker forces the user's browser into using this session id (see number 3 in the image). As you may not change a cookie of another domain (because of the same origin policy), the attacker has to run a JavaScript from the domain of the target web application. Injecting the JavaScript code into the application by XSS accomplishes this attack. Here is an example: `<script>document.cookie="_session_id=16d5b78abb28e3d6206b60f22a03c8d9";</script>`. Read more about XSS and injection later on.
* The attacker lures the victim to the infected page with the JavaScript code. By viewing the page, the victim's browser will change the session id to the trap session id.
* As the new trap session is unused, the web application will require the user to authenticate.
* From now on, the victim and the attacker will co-use the web application with the same session: The session became valid and the victim didn't notice the attack.
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ In the <a href="#sessions">session chapter</a> you have learned that most Rails
It is important to notice that the actual crafted image or link doesn't necessarily have to be situated in the web application's domain, it can be anywhere - in a forum, blog post or email.
-CSRF appears very rarely in CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) - less than 0.1% in 2006 - but it really is a 'sleeping giant' [Grossman]. This is in stark contrast to the results in my (and others) security contract work - _CSRF is an important security issue_.
+CSRF appears very rarely in CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) - less than 0.1% in 2006 - but it really is a 'sleeping giant' [Grossman]. This is in stark contrast to the results in many security contract works - _CSRF is an important security issue_.
### CSRF Countermeasures
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ For _countermeasures against CSRF in administration interfaces and Intranet appl
The common admin interface works like this: it's located at www.example.com/admin, may be accessed only if the admin flag is set in the User model, re-displays user input and allows the admin to delete/add/edit whatever data desired. Here are some thoughts about this:
-* It is very important to _think about the worst case_: What if someone really got hold of my cookie or user credentials. You could _introduce roles_ for the admin interface to limit the possibilities of the attacker. Or how about _special login credentials_ for the admin interface, other than the ones used for the public part of the application. Or a _special password for very serious actions_?
+* It is very important to _think about the worst case_: What if someone really got hold of your cookies or user credentials. You could _introduce roles_ for the admin interface to limit the possibilities of the attacker. Or how about _special login credentials_ for the admin interface, other than the ones used for the public part of the application. Or a _special password for very serious actions_?
* Does the admin really have to access the interface from everywhere in the world? Think about _limiting the login to a bunch of source IP addresses_. Examine request.remote_ip to find out about the user's IP address. This is not bullet-proof, but a great barrier. Remember that there might be a proxy in use, though.
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ If the parameter was nil, the resulting SQL query will be
SELECT * FROM users WHERE (users.activation_code IS NULL) LIMIT 1
```
-And thus it found the first user in the database, returned it and logged them in. You can find out more about it in [my blog post](http://www.rorsecurity.info/2007/10/28/restful_authentication-login-security/). _It is advisable to update your plug-ins from time to time_. Moreover, you can review your application to find more flaws like this.
+And thus it found the first user in the database, returned it and logged them in. You can find out more about it in [this blog post](http://www.rorsecurity.info/2007/10/28/restful_authentication-login-security/). _It is advisable to update your plug-ins from time to time_. Moreover, you can review your application to find more flaws like this.
### Brute-Forcing Accounts
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ Imagine a blacklist deletes "script" from the user input. Now the attacker injec
strip_tags("some<<b>script>alert('hello')<</b>/script>")
```
-This returned "some&lt;script&gt;alert('hello')&lt;/script&gt;", which makes an attack work. That's why I vote for a whitelist approach, using the updated Rails 2 method sanitize():
+This returned "some&lt;script&gt;alert('hello')&lt;/script&gt;", which makes an attack work. That's why a whitelist approach is better, using the updated Rails 2 method sanitize():
```ruby
tags = %w(a acronym b strong i em li ul ol h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 blockquote br cite sub sup ins p)
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ The [moz-binding](http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5LP051FHPE.html) CSS pr
#### Countermeasures
-This example, again, showed that a blacklist filter is never complete. However, as custom CSS in web applications is a quite rare feature, I am not aware of a whitelist CSS filter. _If you want to allow custom colors or images, you can allow the user to choose them and build the CSS in the web application_. Use Rails' `sanitize()` method as a model for a whitelist CSS filter, if you really need one.
+This example, again, showed that a blacklist filter is never complete. However, as custom CSS in web applications is a quite rare feature, it may be hard to find a good whitelist CSS filter. _If you want to allow custom colors or images, you can allow the user to choose them and build the CSS in the web application_. Use Rails' `sanitize()` method as a model for a whitelist CSS filter, if you really need one.
### Textile Injection
diff --git a/guides/source/testing.md b/guides/source/testing.md
index 36d37f3af0..bac4b63c75 100644
--- a/guides/source/testing.md
+++ b/guides/source/testing.md
@@ -134,27 +134,27 @@ Unit Testing your Models
In Rails, models tests are what you write to test your models.
-For this guide we will be using Rails _scaffolding_. It will create the model, a migration, controller and views for the new resource in a single operation. It will also create a full test suite following Rails best practices. I will be using examples from this generated code and will be supplementing it with additional examples where necessary.
+For this guide we will be using Rails _scaffolding_. It will create the model, a migration, controller and views for the new resource in a single operation. It will also create a full test suite following Rails best practices. We will be using examples from this generated code and will be supplementing it with additional examples where necessary.
NOTE: For more information on Rails <i>scaffolding</i>, refer to [Getting Started with Rails](getting_started.html)
When you use `rails generate scaffold`, for a resource among other things it creates a test stub in the `test/models` folder:
```bash
-$ rails generate scaffold post title:string body:text
+$ bin/rails generate scaffold article title:string body:text
...
-create app/models/post.rb
-create test/models/post_test.rb
-create test/fixtures/posts.yml
+create app/models/article.rb
+create test/models/article_test.rb
+create test/fixtures/articles.yml
...
```
-The default test stub in `test/models/post_test.rb` looks like this:
+The default test stub in `test/models/article_test.rb` looks like this:
```ruby
require 'test_helper'
-class PostTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+class ArticleTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
# test "the truth" do
# assert true
# end
@@ -170,15 +170,15 @@ require 'test_helper'
As you know by now, `test_helper.rb` specifies the default configuration to run our tests. This is included with all the tests, so any methods added to this file are available to all your tests.
```ruby
-class PostTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+class ArticleTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
```
-The `PostTest` class defines a _test case_ because it inherits from `ActiveSupport::TestCase`. `PostTest` thus has all the methods available from `ActiveSupport::TestCase`. You'll see those methods a little later in this guide.
+The `ArticleTest` class defines a _test case_ because it inherits from `ActiveSupport::TestCase`. `ArticleTest` thus has all the methods available from `ActiveSupport::TestCase`. You'll see those methods a little later in this guide.
-Any method defined within a class inherited from `MiniTest::Unit::TestCase`
-(which is the superclass of `ActiveSupport::TestCase`) that begins with `test` (case sensitive) is simply called a test. So, `test_password`, `test_valid_password` and `testValidPassword` all are legal test names and are run automatically when the test case is run.
+Any method defined within a class inherited from `Minitest::Test`
+(which is the superclass of `ActiveSupport::TestCase`) that begins with `test_` (case sensitive) is simply called a test. So, `test_password` and `test_valid_password` are legal test names and are run automatically when the test case is run.
-Rails adds a `test` method that takes a test name and a block. It generates a normal `MiniTest::Unit` test with method names prefixed with `test_`. So,
+Rails adds a `test` method that takes a test name and a block. It generates a normal `Minitest::Unit` test with method names prefixed with `test_`. So,
```ruby
test "the truth" do
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ In order to run your tests, your test database will need to have the current str
Running a test is as simple as invoking the file containing the test cases through `rake test` command.
```bash
-$ rake test test/models/post_test.rb
+$ bin/rake test test/models/article_test.rb
.
Finished tests in 0.009262s, 107.9680 tests/s, 107.9680 assertions/s.
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Finished tests in 0.009262s, 107.9680 tests/s, 107.9680 assertions/s.
You can also run a particular test method from the test case by running the test and providing the `test method name`.
```bash
-$ rake test test/models/post_test.rb test_the_truth
+$ bin/rake test test/models/article_test.rb test_the_truth
.
Finished tests in 0.009064s, 110.3266 tests/s, 110.3266 assertions/s.
@@ -243,25 +243,25 @@ This will run all test methods from the test case. Note that `test_helper.rb` is
The `.` (dot) above indicates a passing test. When a test fails you see an `F`; when a test throws an error you see an `E` in its place. The last line of the output is the summary.
-To see how a test failure is reported, you can add a failing test to the `post_test.rb` test case.
+To see how a test failure is reported, you can add a failing test to the `article_test.rb` test case.
```ruby
-test "should not save post without title" do
- post = Post.new
- assert_not post.save
+test "should not save article without title" do
+ article = Article.new
+ assert_not article.save
end
```
Let us run this newly added test.
```bash
-$ rake test test/models/post_test.rb test_should_not_save_post_without_title
+$ bin/rake test test/models/article_test.rb test_should_not_save_article_without_title
F
Finished tests in 0.044632s, 22.4054 tests/s, 22.4054 assertions/s.
1) Failure:
-test_should_not_save_post_without_title(PostTest) [test/models/post_test.rb:6]:
+test_should_not_save_article_without_title(ArticleTest) [test/models/article_test.rb:6]:
Failed assertion, no message given.
1 tests, 1 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips
@@ -270,9 +270,9 @@ Failed assertion, no message given.
In the output, `F` denotes a failure. You can see the corresponding trace shown under `1)` along with the name of the failing test. The next few lines contain the stack trace followed by a message which mentions the actual value and the expected value by the assertion. The default assertion messages provide just enough information to help pinpoint the error. To make the assertion failure message more readable, every assertion provides an optional message parameter, as shown here:
```ruby
-test "should not save post without title" do
- post = Post.new
- assert_not post.save, "Saved the post without a title"
+test "should not save article without title" do
+ article = Article.new
+ assert_not article.save, "Saved the article without a title"
end
```
@@ -280,14 +280,14 @@ Running this test shows the friendlier assertion message:
```bash
1) Failure:
-test_should_not_save_post_without_title(PostTest) [test/models/post_test.rb:6]:
-Saved the post without a title
+test_should_not_save_article_without_title(ArticleTest) [test/models/article_test.rb:6]:
+Saved the article without a title
```
Now to get this test to pass we can add a model level validation for the _title_ field.
```ruby
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
validates :title, presence: true
end
```
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ end
Now the test should pass. Let us verify by running the test again:
```bash
-$ rake test test/models/post_test.rb test_should_not_save_post_without_title
+$ bin/rake test test/models/article_test.rb test_should_not_save_article_without_title
.
Finished tests in 0.047721s, 20.9551 tests/s, 20.9551 assertions/s.
@@ -320,15 +320,15 @@ end
Now you can see even more output in the console from running the tests:
```bash
-$ rake test test/models/post_test.rb test_should_report_error
+$ bin/rake test test/models/article_test.rb test_should_report_error
E
Finished tests in 0.030974s, 32.2851 tests/s, 0.0000 assertions/s.
1) Error:
-test_should_report_error(PostTest):
-NameError: undefined local variable or method `some_undefined_variable' for #<PostTest:0x007fe32e24afe0>
- test/models/post_test.rb:10:in `block in <class:PostTest>'
+test_should_report_error(ArticleTest):
+NameError: undefined local variable or method `some_undefined_variable' for #<ArticleTest:0x007fe32e24afe0>
+ test/models/article_test.rb:10:in `block in <class:ArticleTest>'
1 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors, 0 skips
```
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ backtrace. simply set the `BACKTRACE` environment variable to enable this
behavior:
```bash
-$ BACKTRACE=1 rake test test/models/post_test.rb
+$ BACKTRACE=1 bin/rake test test/models/article_test.rb
```
### What to Include in Your Unit Tests
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ NOTE: Creating your own assertions is an advanced topic that we won't cover in t
### Rails Specific Assertions
-Rails adds some custom assertions of its own to the `test/unit` framework:
+Rails adds some custom assertions of its own to the `minitest` framework:
| Assertion | Purpose |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
@@ -422,26 +422,26 @@ You should test for things such as:
* was the correct object stored in the response template?
* was the appropriate message displayed to the user in the view?
-Now that we have used Rails scaffold generator for our `Post` resource, it has already created the controller code and tests. You can take look at the file `posts_controller_test.rb` in the `test/controllers` directory.
+Now that we have used Rails scaffold generator for our `Article` resource, it has already created the controller code and tests. You can take look at the file `articles_controller_test.rb` in the `test/controllers` directory.
-Let me take you through one such test, `test_should_get_index` from the file `posts_controller_test.rb`.
+Let me take you through one such test, `test_should_get_index` from the file `articles_controller_test.rb`.
```ruby
-class PostsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
+class ArticlesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
test "should get index" do
get :index
assert_response :success
- assert_not_nil assigns(:posts)
+ assert_not_nil assigns(:articles)
end
end
```
-In the `test_should_get_index` test, Rails simulates a request on the action called `index`, making sure the request was successful and also ensuring that it assigns a valid `posts` instance variable.
+In the `test_should_get_index` test, Rails simulates a request on the action called `index`, making sure the request was successful and also ensuring that it assigns a valid `articles` instance variable.
The `get` method kicks off the web request and populates the results into the response. It accepts 4 arguments:
* The action of the controller you are requesting. This can be in the form of a string or a symbol.
-* An optional hash of request parameters to pass into the action (eg. query string parameters or post variables).
+* An optional hash of request parameters to pass into the action (eg. query string parameters or article variables).
* An optional hash of session variables to pass along with the request.
* An optional hash of flash values.
@@ -457,17 +457,17 @@ Another example: Calling the `:view` action, passing an `id` of 12 as the `param
get(:view, {'id' => '12'}, nil, {'message' => 'booya!'})
```
-NOTE: If you try running `test_should_create_post` test from `posts_controller_test.rb` it will fail on account of the newly added model level validation and rightly so.
+NOTE: If you try running `test_should_create_article` test from `articles_controller_test.rb` it will fail on account of the newly added model level validation and rightly so.
-Let us modify `test_should_create_post` test in `posts_controller_test.rb` so that all our test pass:
+Let us modify `test_should_create_article` test in `articles_controller_test.rb` so that all our test pass:
```ruby
-test "should create post" do
- assert_difference('Post.count') do
- post :create, post: {title: 'Some title'}
+test "should create article" do
+ assert_difference('Article.count') do
+ post :create, article: {title: 'Some title'}
end
- assert_redirected_to post_path(assigns(:post))
+ assert_redirected_to article_path(assigns(:article))
end
```
@@ -576,12 +576,12 @@ is the correct way to assert for the layout when the view renders a partial with
Here's another example that uses `flash`, `assert_redirected_to`, and `assert_difference`:
```ruby
-test "should create post" do
- assert_difference('Post.count') do
- post :create, post: {title: 'Hi', body: 'This is my first post.'}
+test "should create article" do
+ assert_difference('article.count') do
+ post :create, article: {title: 'Hi', body: 'This is my first article.'}
end
- assert_redirected_to post_path(assigns(:post))
- assert_equal 'Post was successfully created.', flash[:notice]
+ assert_redirected_to article_path(assigns(:article))
+ assert_equal 'Article was successfully created.', flash[:notice]
end
```
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ Integration tests are used to test the interaction among any number of controlle
Unlike Unit and Functional tests, integration tests have to be explicitly created under the 'test/integration' folder within your application. Rails provides a generator to create an integration test skeleton for you.
```bash
-$ rails generate integration_test user_flows
+$ bin/rails generate integration_test user_flows
exists test/integration/
create test/integration/user_flows_test.rb
```
@@ -699,8 +699,6 @@ A simple integration test that exercises multiple controllers:
require 'test_helper'
class UserFlowsTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
- fixtures :users
-
test "login and browse site" do
# login via https
https!
@@ -712,7 +710,7 @@ class UserFlowsTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
assert_equal 'Welcome david!', flash[:notice]
https!(false)
- get "/posts/all"
+ get "/articles/all"
assert_response :success
assert assigns(:products)
end
@@ -727,10 +725,7 @@ Here's an example of multiple sessions and custom DSL in an integration test
require 'test_helper'
class UserFlowsTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
- fixtures :users
-
test "login and browse site" do
-
# User david logs in
david = login(:david)
# User guest logs in
@@ -793,57 +788,53 @@ when you initiate a Rails project.
| `rake test:all:db` | Runs all tests quickly by merging all types and resetting db |
-Brief Note About `MiniTest`
+Brief Note About `Minitest`
-----------------------------
-Ruby ships with a vast Standard Library for all common use-cases including testing. Ruby 1.8 provided `Test::Unit`, a framework for unit testing in Ruby. All the basic assertions discussed above are actually defined in `Test::Unit::Assertions`. The class `ActiveSupport::TestCase` which we have been using in our unit and functional tests extends `Test::Unit::TestCase`, allowing
-us to use all of the basic assertions in our tests.
-
-Ruby 1.9 introduced `MiniTest`, an updated version of `Test::Unit` which provides a backwards compatible API for `Test::Unit`. You could also use `MiniTest` in Ruby 1.8 by installing the `minitest` gem.
+Ruby ships with a vast Standard Library for all common use-cases including testing. Since version 1.9, Ruby provides `Minitest`, a framework for testing. All the basic assertions such as `assert_equal` discussed above are actually defined in `Minitest::Assertions`. The classes `ActiveSupport::TestCase`, `ActionController::TestCase`, `ActionMailer::TestCase`, `ActionView::TestCase` and `ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest` - which we have been inheriting in our test classes - include `Minitest::Assertions`, allowing us to use all of the basic assertions in our tests.
-NOTE: For more information on `Test::Unit`, refer to [test/unit Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/test/unit/rdoc/)
-For more information on `MiniTest`, refer to [Minitest](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/minitest/unit/rdoc/)
+NOTE: For more information on `Minitest`, refer to [Minitest](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.0/libdoc/minitest/rdoc/MiniTest.html)
Setup and Teardown
------------------
-If you would like to run a block of code before the start of each test and another block of code after the end of each test you have two special callbacks for your rescue. Let's take note of this by looking at an example for our functional test in `Posts` controller:
+If you would like to run a block of code before the start of each test and another block of code after the end of each test you have two special callbacks for your rescue. Let's take note of this by looking at an example for our functional test in `Articles` controller:
```ruby
require 'test_helper'
-class PostsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
+class ArticlesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
# called before every single test
def setup
- @post = posts(:one)
+ @article = articles(:one)
end
# called after every single test
def teardown
- # as we are re-initializing @post before every test
+ # as we are re-initializing @article before every test
# setting it to nil here is not essential but I hope
# you understand how you can use the teardown method
- @post = nil
+ @article = nil
end
- test "should show post" do
- get :show, id: @post.id
+ test "should show article" do
+ get :show, id: @article.id
assert_response :success
end
- test "should destroy post" do
- assert_difference('Post.count', -1) do
- delete :destroy, id: @post.id
+ test "should destroy article" do
+ assert_difference('Article.count', -1) do
+ delete :destroy, id: @article.id
end
- assert_redirected_to posts_path
+ assert_redirected_to articles_path
end
end
```
-Above, the `setup` method is called before each test and so `@post` is available for each of the tests. Rails implements `setup` and `teardown` as `ActiveSupport::Callbacks`. Which essentially means you need not only use `setup` and `teardown` as methods in your tests. You could specify them by using:
+Above, the `setup` method is called before each test and so `@article` is available for each of the tests. Rails implements `setup` and `teardown` as `ActiveSupport::Callbacks`. Which essentially means you need not only use `setup` and `teardown` as methods in your tests. You could specify them by using:
* a block
* a method (like in the earlier example)
@@ -855,38 +846,38 @@ Let's see the earlier example by specifying `setup` callback by specifying a met
```ruby
require 'test_helper'
-class PostsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
+class ArticlesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
# called before every single test
- setup :initialize_post
+ setup :initialize_article
# called after every single test
def teardown
- @post = nil
+ @article = nil
end
- test "should show post" do
- get :show, id: @post.id
+ test "should show article" do
+ get :show, id: @article.id
assert_response :success
end
- test "should update post" do
- patch :update, id: @post.id, post: {}
- assert_redirected_to post_path(assigns(:post))
+ test "should update article" do
+ patch :update, id: @article.id, article: {}
+ assert_redirected_to article_path(assigns(:article))
end
- test "should destroy post" do
- assert_difference('Post.count', -1) do
- delete :destroy, id: @post.id
+ test "should destroy article" do
+ assert_difference('Article.count', -1) do
+ delete :destroy, id: @article.id
end
- assert_redirected_to posts_path
+ assert_redirected_to articles_path
end
private
- def initialize_post
- @post = posts(:one)
+ def initialize_article
+ @article = articles(:one)
end
end
```
@@ -894,11 +885,11 @@ end
Testing Routes
--------------
-Like everything else in your Rails application, it is recommended that you test your routes. An example test for a route in the default `show` action of `Posts` controller above should look like:
+Like everything else in your Rails application, it is recommended that you test your routes. An example test for a route in the default `show` action of `Articles` controller above should look like:
```ruby
-test "should route to post" do
- assert_routing '/posts/1', {controller: "posts", action: "show", id: "1"}
+test "should route to article" do
+ assert_routing '/articles/1', {controller: "articles", action: "show", id: "1"}
end
```
@@ -1011,7 +1002,7 @@ located under the `test/helpers` directory. Rails provides a generator which
generates both the helper and the test file:
```bash
-$ rails generate helper User
+$ bin/rails generate helper User
create app/helpers/user_helper.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/helpers/user_helper_test.rb
@@ -1046,7 +1037,7 @@ access to Rails' helper methods such as `link_to` or `pluralize`.
Other Testing Approaches
------------------------
-The built-in `test/unit` based testing is not the only way to test Rails applications. Rails developers have come up with a wide variety of other approaches and aids for testing, including:
+The built-in `minitest` based testing is not the only way to test Rails applications. Rails developers have come up with a wide variety of other approaches and aids for testing, including:
* [NullDB](http://avdi.org/projects/nulldb/), a way to speed up testing by avoiding database use.
* [Factory Girl](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/tree/master), a replacement for fixtures.
diff --git a/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md
index da161f84c9..03d1f2a3a0 100644
--- a/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md
+++ b/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ secrets, you need to:
2. Use your existing `secret_key_base` from the `secret_token.rb` initializer to
set the SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable for whichever users run the Rails
- app in production mode. Alternately, you can simply copy the existing
- `secret_key_base` from the `secret_token.rb` initializer to `secrets.yml`
+ app in production mode. Alternately, you can simply copy the existing
+ `secret_key_base` from the `secret_token.rb` initializer to `secrets.yml`
under the `production` section, replacing '<%= ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"] %>'.
-
+
3. Remove the `secret_token.rb` initializer.
4. Use `rake secret` to generate new keys for the `development` and `test` sections.
@@ -393,6 +393,14 @@ start using the more precise `:plain:`, `:html`, and `:body` options instead.
Using `render :text` may pose a security risk, as the content is sent as
`text/html`.
+### PostgreSQL json and hstore datatypes
+
+Rails 4.1 will map `json` and `hstore` columns to a string-keyed Ruby `Hash`.
+In earlier versions a `HashWithIndifferentAccess` was used. This means that
+symbol access is no longer supported. This is also the case for
+`store_accessors` based on top of `json` or `hstore` columns. Make sure to use
+string keys consistently.
+
Upgrading from Rails 3.2 to Rails 4.0
-------------------------------------
@@ -480,7 +488,7 @@ def update
respond_to do |format|
format.json do
# perform a partial update
- @post.update params[:post]
+ @article.update params[:article]
end
format.json_patch do
@@ -712,17 +720,18 @@ config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier
Upgrading from Rails 3.1 to Rails 3.2
-------------------------------------
-If your application is currently on any version of Rails older than 3.1.x, you should upgrade to Rails 3.1 before attempting an update to Rails 3.2.
+If your application is currently on any version of Rails older than 3.1.x, you
+should upgrade to Rails 3.1 before attempting an update to Rails 3.2.
-The following changes are meant for upgrading your application to Rails 3.2.17,
-the last 3.2.x version of Rails.
+The following changes are meant for upgrading your application to the latest
+3.2.x version of Rails.
### Gemfile
Make the following changes to your `Gemfile`.
```ruby
-gem 'rails', '3.2.17'
+gem 'rails', '3.2.18'
group :assets do
gem 'sass-rails', '~> 3.2.6'
@@ -883,7 +892,7 @@ AppName::Application.config.session_store :cookie_store, key: 'SOMETHINGNEW'
or
```bash
-$ rake db:sessions:clear
+$ bin/rake db:sessions:clear
```
### Remove :cache and :concat options in asset helpers references in views
diff --git a/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md b/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md
index aba3c9ed61..7c3fd9f69d 100644
--- a/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md
+++ b/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ is a helper that assists with writing forms. `form_for` takes a `:remote`
option. It works like this:
```erb
-<%= form_for(@post, remote: true) do |f| %>
+<%= form_for(@article, remote: true) do |f| %>
...
<% end %>
```
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ option. It works like this:
This will generate the following HTML:
```html
-<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/posts" class="new_post" data-remote="true" id="new_post" method="post">
+<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/articles" class="new_article" data-remote="true" id="new_article" method="post">
...
</form>
```
@@ -180,10 +180,10 @@ bind to the `ajax:success` event. On failure, use `ajax:error`. Check it out:
```coffeescript
$(document).ready ->
- $("#new_post").on("ajax:success", (e, data, status, xhr) ->
- $("#new_post").append xhr.responseText
+ $("#new_article").on("ajax:success", (e, data, status, xhr) ->
+ $("#new_article").append xhr.responseText
).on "ajax:error", (e, xhr, status, error) ->
- $("#new_post").append "<p>ERROR</p>"
+ $("#new_article").append "<p>ERROR</p>"
```
Obviously, you'll want to be a bit more sophisticated than that, but it's a
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ is very similar to `form_for`. It has a `:remote` option that you can use like
this:
```erb
-<%= form_tag('/posts', remote: true) do %>
+<%= form_tag('/articles', remote: true) do %>
...
<% end %>
```
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ this:
This will generate the following HTML:
```html
-<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/posts" data-remote="true" method="post">
+<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/articles" data-remote="true" method="post">
...
</form>
```
@@ -219,21 +219,21 @@ is a helper that assists with generating links. It has a `:remote` option you
can use like this:
```erb
-<%= link_to "a post", @post, remote: true %>
+<%= link_to "an article", @article, remote: true %>
```
which generates
```html
-<a href="/posts/1" data-remote="true">a post</a>
+<a href="/articles/1" data-remote="true">an article</a>
```
You can bind to the same Ajax events as `form_for`. Here's an example. Let's
-assume that we have a list of posts that can be deleted with just one
+assume that we have a list of articles that can be deleted with just one
click. We would generate some HTML like this:
```erb
-<%= link_to "Delete post", @post, remote: true, method: :delete %>
+<%= link_to "Delete article", @article, remote: true, method: :delete %>
```
and write some CoffeeScript like this:
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ and write some CoffeeScript like this:
```coffeescript
$ ->
$("a[data-remote]").on "ajax:success", (e, data, status, xhr) ->
- alert "The post was deleted."
+ alert "The article was deleted."
```
### button_to
@@ -249,14 +249,14 @@ $ ->
[`button_to`](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#method-i-button_to) is a helper that helps you create buttons. It has a `:remote` option that you can call like this:
```erb
-<%= button_to "A post", @post, remote: true %>
+<%= button_to "An article", @article, remote: true %>
```
this generates
```html
-<form action="/posts/1" class="button_to" data-remote="true" method="post">
- <div><input type="submit" value="A post"></div>
+<form action="/articles/1" class="button_to" data-remote="true" method="post">
+ <div><input type="submit" value="An article"></div>
</form>
```