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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile index 0661549644..3f9bd2b6da 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ The scaffold generator will build 15 files in your application, along with some |test/functional/posts_controller_test.rb |Functional testing harness for the posts controller| |test/unit/helpers/posts_helper_test.rb |Unit testing harness for the posts helper| |config/routes.rb |Edited to include routing information for posts| -|public/stylesheets/scaffold.css |Cascading style sheet to make the scaffolded views look better| +|app/assets/stylesheets/scaffold.css.scss |Cascading style sheet to make the scaffolded views look better| h4. Running a Migration @@ -501,8 +501,8 @@ def index @posts = Post.all respond_to do |format| - format.html # index.html.erb - format.xml { render :xml => @posts } + format.html # index.html.erb + format.json { render :json => @posts } end end </ruby> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ end TIP: For more information on finding records with Active Record, see "Active Record Query Interface":active_record_querying.html. -The +respond_to+ block handles both HTML and XML calls to this action. If you browse to "http://localhost:3000/posts.xml":http://localhost:3000/posts.xml, you'll see all of the posts in XML format. The HTML format looks for a view in +app/views/posts/+ with a name that corresponds to the action name. Rails makes all of the instance variables from the action available to the view. Here's +app/views/posts/index.html.erb+: +The +respond_to+ block handles both HTML and JSON calls to this action. If you browse to "http://localhost:3000/posts.json":http://localhost:3000/posts.json, you'll see a JSON containing all of the posts. The HTML format looks for a view in +app/views/posts/+ with a name that corresponds to the action name. Rails makes all of the instance variables from the action available to the view. Here's +app/views/posts/index.html.erb+: <erb> <h1>Listing posts</h1> @@ -584,8 +584,8 @@ def new @post = Post.new respond_to do |format| - format.html # new.html.erb - format.xml { render :xml => @post } + format.html # new.html.erb + format.json { render :json => @post } end end </ruby> @@ -653,13 +653,13 @@ def create respond_to do |format| if @post.save - format.html { redirect_to(@post, + format.html { redirect_to(@post, :notice => 'Post was successfully created.') } - format.xml { render :xml => @post, + format.json { render :json => @post, :status => :created, :location => @post } else - format.html { render :action => "new" } - format.xml { render :xml => @post.errors, + format.html { render :action => "new" } + format.json { render :json => @post.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity } end end @@ -681,8 +681,8 @@ def show @post = Post.find(params[:id]) respond_to do |format| - format.html # show.html.erb - format.xml { render :xml => @post } + format.html # show.html.erb + format.json { render :json => @post } end end </ruby> @@ -743,12 +743,12 @@ def update respond_to do |format| if @post.update_attributes(params[:post]) - format.html { redirect_to(@post, + format.html { redirect_to(@post, :notice => 'Post was successfully updated.') } - format.xml { head :ok } + format.json { render :json => {}, :status => :ok } else - format.html { render :action => "edit" } - format.xml { render :xml => @post.errors, + format.html { render :action => "edit" } + format.json { render :json => @post.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity } end end @@ -767,8 +767,8 @@ def destroy @post.destroy respond_to do |format| - format.html { redirect_to(posts_url) } - format.xml { head :ok } + format.html { redirect_to(posts_url) } + format.json { render :json => {}, :status => :ok } end end </ruby> @@ -1201,36 +1201,19 @@ h3. Security If you were to publish your blog online, anybody would be able to add, edit and delete posts or delete comments. -Rails provides a very simple HTTP authentication system that will work nicely in this situation. First, we enable simple HTTP based authentication in our <tt>app/controllers/application_controller.rb</tt>: +Rails provides a very simple HTTP authentication system that will work nicely in this situation. -<ruby> -class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base - protect_from_forgery - - private - - def authenticate - authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |user_name, password| - user_name == 'admin' && password == 'password' - end - end - -end -</ruby> - -You can obviously change the username and password to whatever you want. We put this method inside of +ApplicationController+ so that it is available to all of our controllers. - -Then in the +PostsController+ we need to have a way to block access to the various actions if the person is not authenticated, here we can use the Rails <tt>before_filter</tt> method, which allows us to specify that Rails must run a method and only then allow access to the requested action if that method allows it. +In the +PostsController+ we need to have a way to block access to the various actions if the person is not authenticated, here we can use the Rails <tt>http_basic_authenticate_with</tt> method, allowing access to the requested action if that method allows it. -To use the before filter, we specify it at the top of our +PostsController+, in this case, we want the user to be authenticated on every action, except for +index+ and +show+, so we write that: +To use the authentication system, we specify it at the top of our +PostsController+, in this case, we want the user to be authenticated on every action, except for +index+ and +show+, so we write that: <ruby> class PostsController < ApplicationController - before_filter :authenticate, :except => [:index, :show] + http_basic_authenticate_with :name => "dhh", :password => "secret", :except => :index # GET /posts - # GET /posts.xml + # GET /posts.json def index @posts = Post.all respond_to do |format| @@ -1242,7 +1225,7 @@ We also only want to allow authenticated users to delete comments, so in the +Co <ruby> class CommentsController < ApplicationController - before_filter :authenticate, :only => :destroy + http_basic_authenticate_with :name => "dhh", :password => "secret", :only => :destroy def create @post = Post.find(params[:post_id]) @@ -1475,6 +1458,7 @@ Two very common sources of data that are not UTF-8: h3. Changelog +* April 11, 2011: Changed scaffold_controller generator to create format block for JSON instead of XML "Sebastian Martinez":http://www.wyeworks.com * August 30, 2010: Minor editing after Rails 3 release by "Joost Baaij":http://www.spacebabies.nl * July 12, 2010: Fixes, editing and updating of code samples by "Jaime Iniesta":http://jaimeiniesta.com * May 16, 2010: Added a section on configuration gotchas to address common encoding problems that people might have by "Yehuda Katz":http://www.yehudakatz.com |