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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile index 082f9eda7d..8ea06d28aa 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile @@ -1016,6 +1016,7 @@ You can specify an exclamation point (<tt>!</tt>) on the end of the dynamic find If you want to find both by name and locked, you can chain these finders together by simply typing +and+ between the fields. For example, +Client.find_by_first_name_and_locked("Ryan", true)+. +WARNING: Up to and including Rails 3.1, when the number of arguments passed to a dynamic finder method is lesser than the number of fields, say <tt>Client.find_by_name_and_locked("Ryan")</tt>, the behavior is to pass +nil+ as the missing argument. This is *unintentional* and this behavior will be changed in Rails 3.2 to throw an +ArgumentError+. There's another set of dynamic finders that let you find or create/initialize objects if they aren't found. These work in a similar fashion to the other finders and can be used like +find_or_create_by_first_name(params[:first_name])+. Using this will first perform a find and then create if the find returns +nil+. The SQL looks like this for +Client.find_or_create_by_first_name("Ryan")+: diff --git a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile index 563c1c79ae..5999c78369 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ By referring to this guide you will be able to: endprologue. -h3. What Is The Asset Pipeline? +h3. What is the Asset Pipeline? -The asset pipeline provides a framework to concatenate and minify or compress Javascript and CSS assets. It also adds the ability to write these assets in other languages such as CoffeeScript, SCSS and ERB. +The asset pipeline provides a framework to concatenate and minify or compress JavaScript and CSS assets. It also adds the ability to write these assets in other languages such as CoffeeScript, SCSS and ERB. Prior to Rails 3.1 these features were added through third-party Ruby libraries such as Jammit and Sprockets. Rails 3.1 includes the +sprockets-rails+ gem, which depends on the +sprockets+ gem, by default. @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ By having this as a core feature of Rails, all developers can benefit from the p In new Rails 3.1 application the asset pipeline is enable by default. It can be disabled in +application.rb+ by putting this line inside the +Application+ class definition: <plain> - config.assets.enabled = false +config.assets.enabled = false </plain> It is recommended that you use the defaults for all new apps. @@ -30,21 +30,19 @@ It is recommended that you use the defaults for all new apps. h4. Main Features -The first is to concatenate of assets. This is important in a production environment to reduce the number of requests that a client browser has to make to render a web page. While Rails already has a feature to concatenate these types of asset--by placing +:cache => true+ at the end of tags such as +javascript_include_tag+ and +stylesheet_link_tag+--, many people do not use it. +The first feature of the pipeline is to concatenate assets. This is important in a production environment, as it reduces the number of requests that a browser needs to make to render a web page. While Rails already has a feature to concatenate these types of asset--by placing +:cache => true+ at the end of tags such as +javascript_include_tag+ and +stylesheet_link_tag+--, many people do not use it. -The default behavior in Rails 3.1 and onward is to concatenate all files into one master file each for JS and CSS, however you can separate files or groups of files if required (see below). In production an MD5 fingerprint is inserted into each filename. +The default behavior in Rails 3.1 and onward is to concatenate all files into one master file each for JS and CSS. However, you can separate files or groups of files if required (see below). In production an MD5 fingerprint is inserted into each filename so that the file is cached by the web browser but can be invalidated if the fingerprint is altered. -The second feature of the pipeline is to minify or compress. For CSS this usually involves removing whitespace and comments. For Javascript more complex processes can be applied. +The second feature is to minify or compress. For CSS, this usually involves removing whitespace and comments. For JavaScript, more complex processes can be applied. You can choose from a set of built in options or specify your own. -You can choose from a set of built in options or specify your own. +The third feature is the ability to code these assets using another language, or language extension. These include SCSS or Sass for CSS, CoffeeScript for JavaScript, and ERB for both. -The third feature is the ability to code these assets using another language, or language extension. These include SCSS or Sass for CSS, CoffeeScript for Javascript, and ERB for both. - -h4. What is fingerprinting and why should I care? +h4. What is Fingerprinting and Why Should I Care? Fingerprinting is a technique where the filenames of content that is static or infrequently updated is altered to be unique to the content contained in the file. -When a filename is unique and based on its content, http headers can be set to encourage caches everywhere (at ISPs, in browsers) to keep there own copy of the content. When the content is updated, the fingerprint will change and the remote clients will request the new file. This is generally known as _cachebusting_. +When a filename is unique and based on its content, HTTP headers can be set to encourage caches everywhere (at ISPs, in browsers) to keep their own copy of the content. When the content is updated, the fingerprint will change and the remote clients will request the new file. This is generally known as _cachebusting_. The most effective technique is to insert a hash of the content into the name, usually at the end. For example a CSS file +global.css+ is hashed and the filename is updated to incorporate the hash. @@ -62,17 +60,20 @@ Rails old strategy was to append a query string to every asset linked with a bui This has several disadvantages: -1. Not all caches will cache content with a query string - -"Steve Souders recommends":http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/08/23/revving-filenames-dont-use-querystring/, "...avoiding a querystring for cacheable resources". He found that in these case 5-20% of requests will not be cached. - -2. The filename can change between nodes in multi-server environments. - -The query string in Rails is based on the files mtime (mtime is the file modification time). When assets are deployed to a cluster, there is no guarantee that the timestamps will be the same, resulting in different values being used depending on which server handles the request. +<ol> + <li> + <strong>Not all caches will cache content with a query string</strong><br> + "Steve Souders recommends":http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/08/23/revving-filenames-dont-use-querystring/, "...avoiding a querystring for cacheable resources". He found that in these case 5-20% of requests will not be cached. + </li> + <li> + <strong>The file name can change between nodes in multi-server environments.</strong><br> + The query string in Rails is based on the modification time of the files. When assets are deployed to a cluster, there is no guarantee that the timestamps will be the same, resulting in different values being used depending on which server handles the request. + </li> +</ol> -The other problems is that when static assets are deployed with each new release of code, the mtime of *all* these files changes, forcing all remote clients to fetch them again, even when the content of those assets has not changed. +The other problem is that when static assets are deployed with each new release of code, the mtime of *all* these files changes, forcing all remote clients to fetch them again, even when the content of those assets has not changed. -Fingerprinting avoids all these problems be ensuring filenames are consistent based on the content. +Fingerprinting avoids all these problems by ensuring filenames are consistent based on the content. More reading: @@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ h3. How to Use the Asset Pipeline In previous versions of Rails, all assets were located in subdirectories of +public+ such as +images+, +javascripts+ and +stylesheets+. With the asset pipeline, the preferred location for these assets is now the +app/assets+ directory. Files in this directory will be served by the Sprockets middleware included in the sprockets gem. -This is not to say that assets can (or should) no longer be placed in +public+. They still can be and will be served as static files by the application or web server. You would only use +app/assets+ if you wish your files to undergo some pre-processing before they are served. +This is not to say that assets can (or should) no longer be placed in +public+; they still can be and will be served as static files by the application or web server. You would only use +app/assets+ if you wish your files to undergo some pre-processing before they are served. When a scaffold or controller is generated for the application, Rails will also generate a JavaScript file (or CoffeeScript if the +coffee-script+ gem is in the +Gemfile+) and a Cascading Style Sheet file (or SCSS if +sass-rails+ is in the +Gemfile+) file for that controller. @@ -100,32 +101,72 @@ Assets can be placed inside an application in one of three locations: +app/asset +vendor/assets+ is for assets that are owned by outside entities, such as code for JavaScript plugins. -All subdirectories that exists within these three locations will be added to the search path for Sprockets (visible by calling +Rails.application.config.assets.paths+ in a console). When an asset is requested, these paths will be looked through to see if they contain an asset matching the name specified. Once an asset has been found, it's processed by Sprockets and served. +All subdirectories that exist within these three locations will be added to the search path for Sprockets (visible by calling +Rails.application.config.assets.paths+ in a console). When an asset is requested, these paths will be looked through to see if they contain an asset matching the name specified. Once an asset has been found, it's processed by Sprockets and served. -h4. Coding links to Assets +h4. Coding Links to Assets To access assets, we can use the same tags that we are generally familiar with: +Sprockets does not add any new methods to require your assets, we still use the familiar +javascript_include_tag+ and +stylesheet_link_tag+. + <erb> - <%= image_tag "rails.png" %> +<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %> +<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %> </erb> -Providing that assets are enabled within our application (+config.assets.enabled+ in the current environment's file is not set to +false+), this file will be served by Sprockets unless a file at +public/assets/rails.png+ exists, in which case that file will be served. Alternatively, a file with an MD5 hash after its name such as +public/assets/rails-af27b6a414e6da00003503148be9b409.png+ will also be picked up by Sprockets. How these hashes are generated is covered in the "Production Assets":#production_assets section later on in this guide. +In regular views you can access images in the +assets/images+ directory like this: -Otherwise, Sprockets will look through the available paths until it finds a file that matches the name and then will serve it, first looking in the application's assets directories and then falling back to the various engines of the application. +<erb> +<%= image_tag "rails.png" %> +</erb> -Sprockets does not add any new methods to require your assets, we still use the familiar +javascript_include_tag+ and +stylesheet_link_tag+. +Images can be organized into directories if required, and they can be accessed by specifying the directory's name in the tag: <erb> - <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %> - <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %> +<%= image_tag "icons/rails.png" %> </erb> -These helpers (when the pipeline is on) are providing links to the compiled manifest with the specified name (or names). +Providing that assets are enabled within our application (+config.assets.enabled+ in the current environment's file is not set to +false+), this file will be served by Sprockets unless a file at +public/assets/rails.png+ exists, in which case that file will be served. + +Alternatively, a file with an MD5 hash after its name such as +public/assets/rails-af27b6a414e6da00003503148be9b409.png+ will also be picked up by Sprockets. How these hashes are generated is covered in the "Production Assets":#production_assets section later on in this guide. + +Otherwise, Sprockets will look through the available paths until it finds a file that matches the name and then will serve it, first looking in the application's assets directories and then falling back to the various engines of the application. + +If you want to use a "css data URI":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme - a method of embedding the image data directly into the CSS file - you can use the +asset_data_uri+ helper. + +<plain> +#logo { background: url(<%= asset_data_uri 'logo.png' %>) +</plain> + +This will insert a correctly formatted data URI into the CSS source. + +h5. CSS and ERB + +If you add an +erb+ extension to a CSS asset, making it something such as +application.css.erb+ then you can use the +asset_path+ helper in your CSS rules: + +<plain> +.class{background-image:<%= asset_path 'image.png' %>} +</plain> + +This will write the path to the particular asset being referenced. In this example, it would make sense to have an image in one of the asset load paths, such as +app/assets/images/image.png+, which would be referenced here. If this image is already available in +public/assets+ as a fingerprinted file then that path will be referenced. + +Note that the closing tag cannot be of the style +-%>+. + +h5. CSS and SCSS + +When using the asset pipeline, paths to assets must be re-written and +sass-rails+ provides +_url+ and +_path+ helpers for the following asset classes: image, font, video, audio, javascript, stylesheet. + +* +image_url("rails.png")+ becomes +url(/assets/rails.png)+ +* +image_path("rails.png")+ becomes +"/assets/rails.png"+. + +The more generic form can also be used but the asset path and class must both be specified: + +* +asset_url("rails.png", "image")+ becomes +url(/assets/rails.png)+ +* +asset_path("rails.png", "image")+ becomes +"/assets/rails.png"+ h4. Manifest Files and Directives -Sprockets uses manifest files to determine which assets to include and serve. These manifest files contain _directives_ - instructions that tell Sprockets which files to require in order to build a single CSS or JavaScript file. With these directives, Sprockets will load the files specified, process them if necessary, concatenate them into one single file and then compress them (if +Rails.application.config.assets.compress+ is set to +true+). By serving one file rather than many, a page's load time is greatly reduced. +Sprockets uses manifest files to determine which assets to include and serve. These manifest files contain _directives_ - instructions that tell Sprockets which files to require in order to build a single CSS or JavaScript file. With these directives, Sprockets will load the files specified, process them if necessary, concatenate them into one single file and then compress them (if +Rails.application.config.assets.compress+ is set to +true+). By serving one file rather than many, a page's load time is greatly reduced as there is not as many requests to make for each file. For example, in the default Rails application there's a +app/assets/javascripts/application.js+ file which contains the following lines: @@ -167,19 +208,17 @@ For some assets (like CSS) the compiled order is important. You can specify indi h4. Preprocessing -The file extensions used on an asset will determine what preprocssing will be applied. When a controller or a scaffold is generated with the default Rails gemset, a CoffeeScript file and a SCSS file will be generated in place of a regular JavaScript and CSS file. The example used before was a controller called "projects", which generated an +app/assets/javascripts/projects.js.coffee+ and a +app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss+ file. +The file extensions used on an asset will determine what preprocessing will be applied. When a controller or a scaffold is generated with the default Rails gemset, a CoffeeScript file and a SCSS file will be generated in place of a regular JavaScript and CSS file. The example used before was a controller called "projects", which generated an +app/assets/javascripts/projects.js.coffee+ and a +app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss+ file. When these files are requested, they will be processed by the processors provided by the +coffee-script+ and +sass-rails+ gems and then sent back to the browser as JavaScript and CSS respectively. -Additional layers of pre-processing can be requested by adding other extensions. These should be used in the order the processing should be applied. For example, a stylesheet called +app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss.erb+ would first be processed as ERB, then SCSS and finally served as CSS. The same applies to a JavaScript file - +app/assets/javascripts/projects.js.coffee.erb+ would be process as ERB, CoffeeScript and served as JavaScript. +Additional layers of pre-processing can be requested by adding other extensions, where each extension will be processed in a right-to-left manner. These should be used in the order the processing should be applied. For example, a stylesheet called +app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss.erb+ would first be processed as ERB, then SCSS and finally served as CSS. The same applies to a JavaScript file - +app/assets/javascripts/projects.js.coffee.erb+ would be process as ERB, CoffeeScript and served as JavaScript. Keep in mind that the order of these pre-processors is important. For example, if we called our JavaScript file +app/assets/javascripts/projects.js.erb.coffee+ then it would be processed with the CoffeeScript interpreter first, which wouldn't understand ERB and therefore we would run into problems. h3. In Development -TODO: Talk about: Rack::Cache's caching (used in dev and production. The only difference is hashing and headers). - -In the development environment assets are compiled and cached on the first request after the server is started. Sprockets sets a +must-validate+ cache-control http header to reduce request overhead on subsequent requests - on these the browser gets a 304 (not-modified) response. +In the development environment assets are compiled and cached on the first request after the server is started. Sprockets sets a +must-validate+ Cache-Control HTTP header to reduce request overhead on subsequent requests - on these the browser gets a 304 (not-modified) response. If any of the files in the manifest have changed between requests, the server will respond with a new compiled file. @@ -195,15 +234,15 @@ You can put +?debug_assets=true+ or +?debug_assets=1+ at the end of a URL and Sp By default, this would only render this line when used with +<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>+ in a view or layout: <html> - <script src='/assets/application.js'></script> +<script src='/assets/application.js'></script> </html> When the +debug_assets+ parameter is set, this line will be expanded out into three separate lines, separating out the combined file into their parts. <html> - <script src='/assets/application.js'></script> - <script src='/assets/projects.js'></script> - <script src='/assets/tickets.js'></script> +<script src='/assets/application.js'></script> +<script src='/assets/projects.js'></script> +<script src='/assets/tickets.js'></script> </html> This allows the individual parts of an asset to be rendered and debugged separately. @@ -219,80 +258,105 @@ On the first request the assets are compiled and cached as described above, howe /assets/application-4dd5b109ee3439da54f5bdfd78a80473.css </plain> -The MD5 is generated from the contents of the compiled files, and is included in the http +Content-MD5+ header. +The MD5 is generated from the contents of the compiled files, and is included in the HTTP +Content-MD5+ header. -Sprockets also sets the +Cache-Control+ http header to +max-age=31536000+. This signals all caches between your server and the client browser that this content (the file served) can be cached for 1 year. The effect of this is to reduce the number of requests for this asset from your server; the asset has a good chance of being in the local browser cache or some intermediate cache. +Sprockets also sets the +Cache-Control+ HTTP header to +max-age=31536000+. This signals all caches between your server and the client browser that this content (the file served) can be cached for 1 year. The effect of this is to reduce the number of requests for this asset from your server; the asset has a good chance of being in the local browser cache or some intermediate cache. This behavior is controlled by the setting of +config.action_controller.perform_caching+ setting in Rails (which is +true+ for production, +false+ for everything else). This value is propagated to Sprockets during initialization for use when action_controller is not available. -TODO: -describe each and the differences between: - * Sass-rails's handy +image_url+ helpers - * ERB pre-processing and +asset_path+ - -h4. Precompiling assets +h4. Precompiling Assets Even though assets are served by Rack::Cache with far-future headers, in high traffic sites this may not be fast enough. Rails comes bundled with a rake task to compile the manifests to files on disc. These are located in the +public/assets+ directory where they will be served by your web server instead of the Rails application. -TODO: Add section about image assets - The rake task is: -<erb> +<plain> rake assets:precompile +</plain> + +You can run this as part of a Capistrano deployment: + +<erb> +before 'deploy:symlink' do + run "cd #{release_path}; RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} rake assets:precompile" +end </erb> -TODO: explain where to use this with Capistrano +If you are not precompiling your assets, and you are using the default cache file store (which is the file system), you will need to symlink +rails_root/tmp/cache/assets+ from the shared folder that is part of the Capistrano deployment structure in order to persist the cached file between deployments. -TODO: talk about the +config.assets.precompile+ option and the default matcher for files: +TODO: Extend above task to allow for this and add task to set it up (See commits 8f0e0b6 and 704ee0df). Note: Capistrano folks are working on a recipe - update this when it available (see https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/pull/35). + +The default matcher for compiling files will include +application.js+, +application.css+ and all files that do not end in +js+ or +css+: + +<ruby> +[ /\w+\.(?!js|css).+/, /application.(css|js)$/ ] +</ruby> + +If you have other manifests or individual stylesheets and JavaScript files to include, you can append them to the +precompile+ array: <erb> -[ /\w+\.(?!js|css).+/, "application.js", "application.css" ] +config.assets.precompile << ['admin.js', 'admin.css', 'swfObject.js'] </erb> +Precompiled assets exist on the filesystem and are served directly by your webserver. They do not have far-future headers by default, so to get the benefit of fingerprinting you'll have to update your server configuration to add them. + +For Apache: + +<plain> +<LocationMatch "^/assets/.*$"> + # Some browsers still send conditional-GET requests if there's a + # Last-Modified header or an ETag header even if they haven't + # reached the expiry date sent in the Expires header. + Header unset Last-Modified + Header unset ETag + FileETag None + # RFC says only cache for 1 year + ExpiresActive On + ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year" +</LocationMatch> +</plain> + +TODO: NGINX instructions -Sprockets also creates a "gzip":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip (.gz) of your assets. This prevents your server from contently compressing your assets for each request. You must configure your server to use gzip compression and serve the compressed assets that will be stored in the public/assets folder. The following are some configuration blocks that you can use for common servers. -NGINX & Apache examples? +When files are precompiled Sprockets also creates "Gzip":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip (.gz) version of your assets. This avoids the server having to do this for any requests; it can simply read the compressed files from disc. You must configure your server to use gzip compression and serve the compressed assets that will be stored in the public/assets folder. The following configuration options can be used: +TODO: Apache instructions -h3. Customizing The Pipeline +h3. Customizing the Pipeline -h4. CSS -There is currently one option for processing CSS - SCSS. This Gem extends the CSS syntax and offers minification. +h4. CSS Compression -The following line will enable SCSS in you project. +There is currently one option for compressing CSS - YUI. This Gem extends the CSS syntax and offers minification. + +The following line will enable YUI compression, and requires the +yui-compressor+ gem. <erb> -config.assets.css_compressor = :scss +config.assets.css_compressor = :yui </erb> -This option is for compression only and does not relate to the SCSS language extensions that apply when using the +.scss+ file extension on CSS assets. - -h4. Javascript +The +config.assets.compress+ must be set to +true+ to enable CSS compression -There are three options available to process javascript - uglifier, closure and yui. +h4. JavaScript -The default Gemfile includes "uglifier":https://github.com/lautis/uglifier. This gem wraps "UglifierJS":https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS (written for NodeJS) in Ruby. It compress your code by removing white spaces and other magical things like changing your if and else statements to ternary operators when possible. +Possible options for JavaScript compression are +:closure+, +:uglifier+ and +:yui+. These require the use of the +closure-compiler+, +uglifier+ or +yui-compressor+ gems respectively. -TODO: Add detail about the other two +The default Gemfile includes "uglifier":https://github.com/lautis/uglifier. This gem wraps "UglifierJS":https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS (written for NodeJS) in Ruby. It compress your code by removing white spaces and other magical things like changing your +if+ and +else+ statements to ternary operators where possible. -The following line will invoke uglifier for Javascript compression. +The following line will invoke uglifier for JavaScript compression. <erb> config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier </erb> +The +config.assets.compress+ must be set to +true+ to enable JavaScript compression +h4. Using Your Own Compressor -h4. Using your own compressor - -The compressor config settings for CSS and Javascript will also take an Object. - -This object must have a +compress+ method that takes a string as the sole argument and it must return a string. +The compressor config settings for CSS and JavaScript will also take any Object. This object must have a +compress+ method that takes a string as the sole argument and it must return a string. <erb> class Transformer @@ -309,7 +373,7 @@ config.assets.css_compressor = Transformer.new </erb> -h4. Changing the _assets_ path +h4. Changing the _assets_ Path The public path that Sprockets uses by default is +/assets+. @@ -319,8 +383,27 @@ This can be changed to something else: config.assets.prefix = "/some_other_path" </erb> -This is a handy option if you have any existing project (pre Rails 3.1) that already uses this path. +This is a handy option if you have any existing project (pre Rails 3.1) that already uses this path or you wish to use this path for a new resource. +h4. X-Sendfile Headers + +The X-Sendfile header is a directive to the server to ignore the response from the application, and instead serve the file specified in the headers. In production Rails (via Sprockets) does not send the asset - just the location and a zero-length response - relying on the web server to do the file serving, which is usually faster. Both Apache and nginx support this option. + +The configuration is available in <tt>config/environments/production.rb</tt>. + +<erb> +config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # Use 'X-Accel-Redirect' for nginx +</erb> + +You should check that your server or hosting service actually supports this, otherwise comment it out. + +WARNING: If you are upgrading an existing application and intend to use this option, take care to paste this configuration option only into +production.rb+ (and not +application.rb+) and any other environment you define with production behaviour. + +h3. How Caching Works + +Sprockets uses the default rails cache store to cache assets in dev and production. The only difference is file names are fingerprinted and get far-future headers in production. + +TODO: Add more about changing the default store. h3. Adding Assets to Your Gems @@ -330,6 +413,4 @@ A good example of this is the +jquery-rails+ gem which comes with Rails as the s h3. Making Your Library or Gem a Pre-Processor -"You should be able to register [your gems] on Tilt and Sprockets will find them." - Josh -Tilt: https://github.com/rtomayko/tilt - +TODO: Registering gems on "Tilt":https://github.com/rtomayko/tilt enabling Sprockets to find them. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/caching_with_rails.textile b/railties/guides/source/caching_with_rails.textile index 252003edd0..ae56911441 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/caching_with_rails.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/caching_with_rails.textile @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ h3. Basic Caching This is an introduction to the three types of caching techniques that Rails provides by default without the use of any third party plugins. -To start playing with testing you'll want to ensure that +config.action_controller.perform_caching+ is set to +true+ if you're running in development mode. This flag is normally set in the corresponding +config/environments/*.rb+ and caching is disabled by default for development and test, and enabled for production. +To start playing with caching you'll want to ensure that +config.action_controller.perform_caching+ is set to +true+, if you're running in development mode. This flag is normally set in the corresponding +config/environments/*.rb+ and caching is disabled by default for development and test, and enabled for production. <ruby> config.action_controller.perform_caching = true @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ config.action_controller.perform_caching = true h4. Page Caching -Page caching is a Rails mechanism which allows the request for a generated page to be fulfilled by the webserver (i.e. apache or nginx), without ever having to go through the Rails stack at all. Obviously, this is super-fast. Unfortunately, it can't be applied to every situation (such as pages that need authentication) and since the webserver is literally just serving a file from the filesystem, cache expiration is an issue that needs to be dealt with. +Page caching is a Rails mechanism which allows the request for a generated page to be fulfilled by the webserver (i.e. Apache or nginx), without ever having to go through the Rails stack at all. Obviously, this is super-fast. Unfortunately, it can't be applied to every situation (such as pages that need authentication) and since the webserver is literally just serving a file from the filesystem, cache expiration is an issue that needs to be dealt with. -So, how do you enable this super-fast cache behavior? Simple, let's say you have a controller called +ProductsController+ and an +index+ action that lists all the products +To enable page caching, you need to use the +caches_page+ method. <ruby> class ProductsController < ActionController @@ -35,11 +35,10 @@ class ProductsController < ActionController def index @products = Products.all end - end </ruby> -The first time anyone requests +/products+, Rails will generate a file called +products.html+ and the webserver will then look for that file before it passes the next request for +/products+ to your Rails application. +Let's say you have a controller called +ProductsController+ and an +index+ action that lists all the products. The first time anyone requests +/products+, Rails will generate a file called +products.html+ and the webserver will then look for that file before it passes the next request for +/products+ to your Rails application. By default, the page cache directory is set to +Rails.public_path+ (which is usually set to the +public+ folder) and this can be configured by changing the configuration setting +config.action_controller.page_cache_directory+. Changing the default from +public+ helps avoid naming conflicts, since you may want to put other static html in +public+, but changing this will require web server reconfiguration to let the web server know where to serve the cached files from. @@ -104,7 +103,7 @@ INFO: Action caching runs in an after filter. Thus, invalid requests won't gener h4. Fragment Caching -Life would be perfect if we could get away with caching the entire contents of a page or action and serving it out to the world. Unfortunately, dynamic web applications usually build pages with a variety of components not all of which have the same caching characteristics. In order to address such a dynamically created page where different parts of the page need to be cached and expired differently Rails provides a mechanism called Fragment Caching. +Life would be perfect if we could get away with caching the entire contents of a page or action and serving it out to the world. Unfortunately, dynamic web applications usually build pages with a variety of components not all of which have the same caching characteristics. In order to address such a dynamically created page where different parts of the page need to be cached and expired differently, Rails provides a mechanism called Fragment Caching. Fragment Caching allows a fragment of view logic to be wrapped in a cache block and served out of the cache store when the next request comes in. @@ -416,3 +415,4 @@ h3. Changelog * December 27, 2008: Typo fixes * November 23, 2008: Incremental updates with various suggested changes and formatting cleanup * September 15, 2008: Initial version by Aditya Chadha + diff --git a/railties/guides/source/command_line.textile b/railties/guides/source/command_line.textile index 9e3b25d794..b34506d4d8 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/command_line.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/command_line.textile @@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ h4. +rails generate+ The +rails generate+ command uses templates to create a whole lot of things. Running +rails generate+ by itself gives a list of available generators: +You can also use the alias "g" to invoke the generator command: <tt>rails g</tt>. + <shell> $ rails generate Usage: rails generate GENERATOR [args] [options] @@ -311,6 +313,8 @@ h4. +rails runner+ $ rails runner "Model.long_running_method" </shell> +You can also use the alias "r" to invoke the runner: <tt>rails r</tt>. + You can specify the environment in which the +runner+ command should operate using the +-e+ switch. <shell> diff --git a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile index 8e6010ff79..7ed958be08 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile @@ -120,10 +120,12 @@ h4. Configuring Assets Rails 3.1, by default, is set up to use the +sprockets+ gem to manage assets within an application. This gem concatenates and compresses assets in order to make serving them much less painful. -* +config.assets.css_compressor+ defines the CSS compressor to use. Only supported value at the moment is +:yui+, which uses the +yui-compressor+ gem. - * +config.assets.enabled+ a flag that controls whether the asset pipeline is enabled. It is explicitly initialized in +config/application.rb+. +* +config.assets.compress+ a flag that enables the compression of compiled assets. It is explicitly set to true in +config/production.rb+. + +* +config.assets.css_compressor+ defines the CSS compressor to use. Only supported value at the moment is +:yui+, which uses the +yui-compressor+ gem. + * +config.assets.js_compressor+ defines the JavaScript compressor to use. Possible values are +:closure+, +:uglifier+ and +:yui+ which require the use of the +closure-compiler+, +uglifier+ or +yui-compressor+ gems respectively. * +config.assets.paths+ contains the paths which are used to look for assets. Appending paths to this configuration option will cause those paths to be used in the search for assets. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/form_helpers.textile b/railties/guides/source/form_helpers.textile index 9051ede9dd..96a52af612 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/form_helpers.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/form_helpers.textile @@ -170,27 +170,34 @@ IMPORTANT: Always use labels for each checkbox and radio button. They associate h4. Other Helpers of Interest -Other form controls worth mentioning are the text area, password input and hidden input: +Other form controls worth mentioning are the text area, password input, hidden input, search input, tel input, url input and email input: <erb> <%= text_area_tag(:message, "Hi, nice site", :size => "24x6") %> <%= password_field_tag(:password) %> <%= hidden_field_tag(:parent_id, "5") %> +<%= search_field(:user, :name) %> +<%= telephone_field(:user, :phone) %> +<%= url_field(:user, :homepage) %> +<%= email_field(:user, :address) %> </erb> -output: +Output: <html> <textarea id="message" name="message" cols="24" rows="6">Hi, nice site</textarea> <input id="password" name="password" type="password" /> <input id="parent_id" name="parent_id" type="hidden" value="5" /> +<input id="user_name" name="user[name]" size="30" type="search" /> +<input id="user_phone" name="user[phone]" size="30" type="tel" /> +<input id="user_homepage" size="30" name="user[homepage]" type="url" /> +<input id="user_address" size="30" name="user[address]" type="email" /> </html> -Hidden inputs are not shown to the user, but they hold data like any textual input. Values inside them can be changed with JavaScript. +Hidden inputs are not shown to the user, but they hold data like any textual input. Values inside them can be changed with JavaScript. The search, tel, url and email inputs are specified in HTML5 and may receive special handling and/or formatting in some user-agents. TIP: If you're using password input fields (for any purpose), you might want to configure your application to prevent those parameters from being logged. - h3. Dealing with Model Objects h4. Model Object Helpers diff --git a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile index dbbf8f3b51..c88e3cc338 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ endprologue. h3. Anatomy of a Migration -Before I dive into the details of a migration, here are a few examples of the sorts of things you can do: +Before we dive into the details of a migration, here are a few examples of the sorts of things you can do: <ruby> class CreateProducts < ActiveRecord::Migration @@ -117,6 +117,33 @@ Occasionally you will make a mistake when writing a migration. If you have alrea In general editing existing migrations is not a good idea: you will be creating extra work for yourself and your co-workers and cause major headaches if the existing version of the migration has already been run on production machines. Instead you should write a new migration that performs the changes you require. Editing a freshly generated migration that has not yet been committed to source control (or more generally which has not been propagated beyond your development machine) is relatively harmless. +h4. Supported Types + +Active Record supports the following types: + +* +:primary_key+ +* +:string+ +* +:text+ +* +:integer+ +* +:float+ +* +:decimal+ +* +:datetime+ +* +:timestamp+ +* +:time+ +* +:date+ +* +:binary+ +* +:boolean+ + +These will be mapped onto an appropriate underlying database type, for example with MySQL +:string+ is mapped to +VARCHAR(255)+. You can create columns of types not supported by Active Record when using the non-sexy syntax, for example + +<ruby> +create_table :products do |t| + t.column :name, 'polygon', :null => false +end +</ruby> + +This may however hinder portability to other databases. + h3. Creating a Migration h4. Creating a Model @@ -261,18 +288,6 @@ end will append +ENGINE=BLACKHOLE+ to the SQL statement used to create the table (when using MySQL the default is +ENGINE=InnoDB+). -The types supported by Active Record are +:primary_key+, +:string+, +:text+, +:integer+, +:float+, +:decimal+, +:datetime+, +:timestamp+, +:time+, +:date+, +:binary+, +:boolean+. - -These will be mapped onto an appropriate underlying database type, for example with MySQL +:string+ is mapped to +VARCHAR(255)+. You can create columns of types not supported by Active Record when using the non-sexy syntax, for example - -<ruby> -create_table :products do |t| - t.column :name, 'polygon', :null => false -end -</ruby> - -This may however hinder portability to other databases. - h4. Changing Tables A close cousin of +create_table+ is +change_table+, used for changing existing tables. It is used in a similar fashion to +create_table+ but the object yielded to the block knows more tricks. For example diff --git a/railties/guides/source/plugins.textile b/railties/guides/source/plugins.textile index 79bbe495bd..188423861d 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/plugins.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/plugins.textile @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ class CoreExtTest < Test::Unit::TestCase end </ruby> -Run +rake+ to run the test. This test should fail because we haven't implemented the +to_squak+ method: +Run +rake+ to run the test. This test should fail because we haven't implemented the +to_squawk+ method: <shell> 1) Error: @@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ test/dummy directory: <shell> $ cd test/dummy -$ rails generate model Hickwall last_squak:string -$ rails generate model Wickwall last_squak:string last_tweet:string +$ rails generate model Hickwall last_squawk:string +$ rails generate model Wickwall last_squawk:string last_tweet:string </shell> Now you can create the necessary database tables in your testing database by navigating to your dummy app diff --git a/railties/guides/source/rails_application_templates.textile b/railties/guides/source/rails_application_templates.textile index 3db47a70e8..90fc763349 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/rails_application_templates.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/rails_application_templates.textile @@ -11,22 +11,18 @@ endprologue. h3. Usage -To apply a template, you need to provide the Rails generator with the location of the template you wish to apply, using -m option: +To apply a template, you need to provide the Rails generator with the location of the template you wish to apply, using -m option. This can either be path to a file or a URL. <shell> $ rails new blog -m ~/template.rb +$ rails new blog -m http://example.com/template.rb </shell> -It's also possible to apply a template using a URL: - -<shell> -$ rails new blog -m https://gist.github.com/755496.txt -</shell> - -Alternatively, you can use the rake task +rails:template+ to apply a template to an existing Rails application: +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. <shell> $ rake rails:template LOCATION=~/template.rb +$ rake rails:template LOCATION=http://example.com/template.rb </shell> h3. Template API diff --git a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile index 6a729d9641..68fb22f5d8 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Rails would dispatch that request to the +destroy+ method on the +photos+ contro h4. CRUD, Verbs, and Actions -In Rails, a resourceful route provides a mapping between HTTP verbs and URLs and controller actions. By convention, each action also maps to particular CRUD operations in a database. A single entry in the routing file, such as +In Rails, a resourceful route provides a mapping between HTTP verbs and URLs to controller actions. By convention, each action also maps to particular CRUD operations in a database. A single entry in the routing file, such as <ruby> resources :photos @@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Creating a resourceful route will also expose a number of helpers to the control * +photos_path+ returns +/photos+ * +new_photo_path+ returns +/photos/new+ -* +edit_photo_path(id)+ returns +/photos/:id/edit+ (for instance, +edit_photo_path(10)+ returns +/photos/10/edit+) -* +photo_path(id)+ returns +/photos/:id+ (for instance, +photo_path(10)+ returns +/photos/10+) +* +edit_photo_path(:id)+ returns +/photos/:id/edit+ (for instance, +edit_photo_path(10)+ returns +/photos/10/edit+) +* +photo_path(:id)+ returns +/photos/:id+ (for instance, +photo_path(10)+ returns +/photos/10+) Each of these helpers has a corresponding +_url+ helper (such as +photos_url+) which returns the same path prefixed with the current host, port and path prefix. @@ -163,14 +163,14 @@ end This will create a number of routes for each of the +posts+ and +comments+ controller. For +Admin::PostsController+, Rails will create: -|_.HTTP Verb |_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | -|GET |/admin/posts |index | admin_posts_path | -|GET |/admin/posts/new |new | new_admin_posts_path | -|POST |/admin/posts |create | admin_posts_path | -|GET |/admin/posts/1 |show | admin_post_path(id) | -|GET |/admin/posts/1/edit |edit | edit_admin_post_path(id) | -|PUT |/admin/posts/1 |update | admin_post_path(id) | -|DELETE |/admin/posts/1 |destroy | admin_post_path(id) | +|_.HTTP Verb |_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | +|GET |/admin/posts |index | admin_posts_path | +|GET |/admin/posts/new |new | new_admin_post_path | +|POST |/admin/posts |create | admin_posts_path | +|GET |/admin/posts/:id |show | admin_post_path(:id) | +|GET |/admin/posts/:id/edit |edit | edit_admin_post_path(:id) | +|PUT |/admin/posts/:id |update | admin_post_path(:id) | +|DELETE |/admin/posts/:id |destroy | admin_post_path(:id) | If you want to route +/posts+ (without the prefix +/admin+) to +Admin::PostsController+, you could use @@ -204,12 +204,12 @@ In each of these cases, the named routes remain the same as if you did not use + |_.HTTP Verb |_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | |GET |/admin/posts |index | posts_path | -|GET |/admin/posts/new |new | posts_path | +|GET |/admin/posts/new |new | new_post_path | |POST |/admin/posts |create | posts_path | -|GET |/admin/posts/1 |show | post_path(id) | -|GET |/admin/posts/1/edit |edit | edit_post_path(id) | -|PUT |/admin/posts/1 |update | post_path(id) | -|DELETE |/admin/posts/1 |destroy | post_path(id) | +|GET |/admin/posts/:id |show | post_path(:id) | +|GET |/admin/posts/:id/edit|edit | edit_post_path(:id)| +|PUT |/admin/posts/:id |update | post_path(:id) | +|DELETE |/admin/posts/:id |destroy | post_path(:id) | h4. Nested Resources @@ -236,13 +236,13 @@ end In addition to the routes for magazines, this declaration will also route ads to an +AdsController+. The ad URLs require a magazine: |_.HTTP Verb |_.Path |_.action |_.used for | -|GET |/magazines/1/ads |index |display a list of all ads for a specific magazine | -|GET |/magazines/1/ads/new |new |return an HTML form for creating a new ad belonging to a specific magazine | -|POST |/magazines/1/ads |create |create a new ad belonging to a specific magazine | -|GET |/magazines/1/ads/1 |show |display a specific ad belonging to a specific magazine | -|GET |/magazines/1/ads/1/edit |edit |return an HTML form for editing an ad belonging to a specific magazine | -|PUT |/magazines/1/ads/1 |update |update a specific ad belonging to a specific magazine | -|DELETE |/magazines/1/ads/1 |destroy |delete a specific ad belonging to a specific magazine | +|GET |/magazines/:id/ads |index |display a list of all ads for a specific magazine | +|GET |/magazines/:id/ads/new |new |return an HTML form for creating a new ad belonging to a specific magazine | +|POST |/magazines/:id/ads |create |create a new ad belonging to a specific magazine | +|GET |/magazines/:id/ads/:id |show |display a specific ad belonging to a specific magazine | +|GET |/magazines/:id/ads/:id/edit |edit |return an HTML form for editing an ad belonging to a specific magazine | +|PUT |/magazines/:id/ads/:id |update |update a specific ad belonging to a specific magazine | +|DELETE |/magazines/:id/ads/:id |destroy |delete a specific ad belonging to a specific magazine | This will also create routing helpers such as +magazine_ads_url+ and +edit_magazine_ad_path+. These helpers take an instance of Magazine as the first parameter (+magazine_ads_url(@magazine)+). @@ -560,13 +560,13 @@ would match +zoo/woo/foo/bar/baz+ with +params[:a]+ equals +"zoo/woo"+, and +par NOTE: Starting from Rails 3.1, wildcard routes will always match the optional format segment by default. For example if you have this route: <ruby> -map '*pages' => 'pages#show' +match '*pages' => 'pages#show' </ruby> NOTE: By requesting +"/foo/bar.json"+, your +params[:pages]+ will be equals to +"foo/bar"+ with the request format of JSON. If you want the old 3.0.x behavior back, you could supply +:format => false+ like this: <ruby> -map '*pages' => 'pages#show', :format => false +match '*pages' => 'pages#show', :format => false </ruby> h4. Redirection @@ -628,16 +628,16 @@ resources :photos, :controller => "images" will recognize incoming paths beginning with +/photos+ but route to the +Images+ controller: -|_.HTTP Verb |_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | -|GET |/photos |index | photos_path | -|GET |/photos/new |new | new_photo_path | -|POST |/photos |create | photos_path | -|GET |/photos/1 |show | photo_path(id) | -|GET |/photos/1/edit |edit | edit_photo_path(id) | -|PUT |/photos/1 |update | photo_path(id) | -|DELETE |/photos/1 |destroy | photo_path(id) | +|_.HTTP Verb |_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | +|GET |/photos |index | photos_path | +|GET |/photos/new |new | new_photo_path | +|POST |/photos |create | photos_path | +|GET |/photos/:id |show | photo_path(:id) | +|GET |/photos/:id/edit |edit | edit_photo_path(:id) | +|PUT |/photos/:id |update | photo_path(:id) | +|DELETE |/photos/:id |destroy | photo_path(:id) | -NOTE: Use +photos_path+, +new_photos_path+, etc. to generate paths for this resource. +NOTE: Use +photos_path+, +new_photo_path+, etc. to generate paths for this resource. h4. Specifying Constraints @@ -672,14 +672,14 @@ resources :photos, :as => "images" will recognize incoming paths beginning with +/photos+ and route the requests to +PhotosController+, but use the value of the :as option to name the helpers. -|_.HTTP verb|_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | -|GET |/photos |index | images_path | -|GET |/photos/new |new | new_image_path | -|POST |/photos |create | images_path | -|GET |/photos/1 |show | image_path(id) | -|GET |/photos/1/edit |edit | edit_image_path(id) | -|PUT |/photos/1 |update | image_path(id) | -|DELETE |/photos/1 |destroy | image_path(id) | +|_.HTTP verb|_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | +|GET |/photos |index | images_path | +|GET |/photos/new |new | new_image_path | +|POST |/photos |create | images_path | +|GET |/photos/:id |show | image_path(:id) | +|GET |/photos/:id/edit |edit | edit_image_path(:id) | +|PUT |/photos/:id |update | image_path(:id) | +|DELETE |/photos/:id |destroy | image_path(:id) | h4. Overriding the +new+ and +edit+ Segments @@ -776,14 +776,14 @@ end Rails now creates routes to the +CategoriesController+. -|_.HTTP verb|_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | -|GET |/kategorien |index | categories_path | -|GET |/kategorien/neu |new | new_category_path | -|POST |/kategorien |create | categories_path | -|GET |/kategorien/1 |show | category_path(id) | -|GET |/kategorien/1/bearbeiten |edit | edit_category_path(id) | -|PUT |/kategorien/1 |update | category_path(id) | -|DELETE |/kategorien/1 |destroy | category_path(id) | +|_.HTTP verb|_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | +|GET |/kategorien |index | categories_path | +|GET |/kategorien/neu |new | new_category_path | +|POST |/kategorien |create | categories_path | +|GET |/kategorien/:id |show | category_path(:id) | +|GET |/kategorien/:id/bearbeiten |edit | edit_category_path(:id) | +|PUT |/kategorien/:id |update | category_path(:id) | +|DELETE |/kategorien/:id |destroy | category_path(:id) | h4. Overriding the Singular Form |