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diff --git a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/Gemfile b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/Gemfile index 51774934cd..898510dcaa 100644 --- a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/Gemfile +++ b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/Gemfile @@ -25,8 +25,3 @@ gem 'jquery-rails' # To use debugger # gem 'ruby-debug19', :require => 'ruby-debug' - -group :test do - # Pretty printed test output - gem 'turn', :require => false -end diff --git a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb index 7e903c984c..1581d4eb16 100644 --- a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb +++ b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class PostsController < ApplicationController respond_to do |format| if @post.update_attributes(params[:post]) format.html { redirect_to @post, notice: 'Post was successfully updated.' } - format.json { head :ok } + format.json { head :no_content } else format.html { render action: "edit" } format.json { render json: @post.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity } @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class PostsController < ApplicationController respond_to do |format| format.html { redirect_to posts_url } - format.json { head :ok } + format.json { head :no_content } end end end diff --git a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb index 1e1e4b9a99..7fd6b4f516 100644 --- a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb +++ b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html> <head> <title>Blog</title> - <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %> + <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media => "all" %> <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %> <%= csrf_meta_tags %> </head> diff --git a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/application.rb b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/application.rb index e914b5a80e..e16da30f72 100644 --- a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/application.rb +++ b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/application.rb @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ module Blog # Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file. config.filter_parameters += [:password] + # Use SQL instead of Active Record's schema dumper when creating the database. + # This is necessary if your schema can't be completely dumped by the schema dumper, + # like if you have constraints or database-specific column types + # config.active_record.schema_format = :sql + # Enable the asset pipeline config.assets.enabled = true diff --git a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/production.rb b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/production.rb index 6ab63d30a6..dee8acfdfe 100644 --- a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/production.rb +++ b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/production.rb @@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ Blog::Application.configure do # See everything in the log (default is :info) # config.log_level = :debug + # Prepend all log lines with the following tags + # config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid ] + # Use a different logger for distributed setups - # config.logger = SyslogLogger.new + # config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(SyslogLogger.new) # Use a different cache store in production # config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store diff --git a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/test.rb b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/test.rb index 833241ace3..08697cbbc9 100644 --- a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/test.rb +++ b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/test.rb @@ -29,11 +29,6 @@ Blog::Application.configure do # ActionMailer::Base.deliveries array. config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :test - # Use SQL instead of Active Record's schema dumper when creating the test database. - # This is necessary if your schema can't be completely dumped by the schema dumper, - # like if you have constraints or database-specific column types - # config.active_record.schema_format = :sql - # Print deprecation notices to the stderr config.active_support.deprecation = :stderr diff --git a/railties/guides/rails_guides/generator.rb b/railties/guides/rails_guides/generator.rb index 4682ead66e..6f6d3bda80 100644 --- a/railties/guides/rails_guides/generator.rb +++ b/railties/guides/rails_guides/generator.rb @@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ module RailsGuides if guide =~ /\.html\.erb$/ # Generate the special pages like the home. - result = view.render(:layout => 'layout', :file => guide) + # Passing a template handler in the template name is deprecated. So pass the file name without the extension. + result = view.render(:layout => 'layout', :file => $`) else body = File.read(File.join(source_dir, guide)) body = set_header_section(body, view) diff --git a/railties/guides/source/action_controller_overview.textile b/railties/guides/source/action_controller_overview.textile index 5019d49686..b34c223b31 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/action_controller_overview.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/action_controller_overview.textile @@ -166,10 +166,10 @@ h3. Session Your application has a session for each user in which you can store small amounts of data that will be persisted between requests. The session is only available in the controller and the view and can use one of a number of different storage mechanisms: -* CookieStore - Stores everything on the client. -* DRbStore - Stores the data on a DRb server. -* MemCacheStore - Stores the data in a memcache. -* ActiveRecordStore - Stores the data in a database using Active Record. +* ActionDispatch::Session::CookieStore - Stores everything on the client. +* ActiveRecord::SessionStore - Stores the data in a database using Active Record. +* ActionDispatch::Session::CacheStore - Stores the data in the Rails cache. +* ActionDispatch::Session::MemCacheStore - Stores the data in a memcached cluster (this is a legacy implementation; consider using CacheStore instead). All session stores use a cookie to store a unique ID for each session (you must use a cookie, Rails will not allow you to pass the session ID in the URL as this is less secure). @@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ For most stores this ID is used to look up the session data on the server, e.g. The CookieStore can store around 4kB of data -- much less than the others -- but this is usually enough. Storing large amounts of data in the session is discouraged no matter which session store your application uses. You should especially avoid storing complex objects (anything other than basic Ruby objects, the most common example being model instances) in the session, as the server might not be able to reassemble them between requests, which will result in an error. +If your user sessions don't store critical data or don't need to be around for long periods (for instance if you just use the flash for messaging), you can consider using ActionDispatch::Session::CacheStore. This will store sessions using the cache implementation you have configured for your application. The advantage of this is that you can use your existing cache infrastructure for storing sessions without requiring any additional setup or administration. The downside, of course, is that the sessions will be ephemeral and could disappear at any time. + Read more about session storage in the "Security Guide":security.html. If you need a different session storage mechanism, you can change it in the +config/initializers/session_store.rb+ file: diff --git a/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile b/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile index ad5b848d2c..26c95be031 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile @@ -362,21 +362,14 @@ When using named routes you only need to supply the +:host+: Email clients have no web context and so paths have no base URL to form complete web addresses. Thus, when using named routes only the "_url" variant makes sense. -It is also possible to set a default host that will be used in all mailers by setting the +:host+ option in the +ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options+ hash as follows: +It is also possible to set a default host that will be used in all mailers by setting the <tt>:host</tt> option as a configuration option in <tt>config/application.rb</tt>: <ruby> -class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base - default_url_options[:host] = "example.com" - - def welcome_email(user) - @user = user - @url = user_url(@user) - mail(:to => user.email, - :subject => "Welcome to My Awesome Site") - end -end +config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => "example.com" } </ruby> +If you use this setting, you should pass the <tt>:only_path => false</tt> option when using +url_for+. This will ensure that absolute URLs are generated because the +url_for+ view helper will, by default, generate relative URLs when a <tt>:host</tt> option isn't explicitly provided. + h4. Sending Multipart Emails Action Mailer will automatically send multipart emails if you have different templates for the same action. So, for our UserMailer example, if you have +welcome_email.text.erb+ and +welcome_email.html.erb+ in +app/views/user_mailer+, Action Mailer will automatically send a multipart email with the HTML and text versions setup as different parts. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/action_view_overview.textile b/railties/guides/source/action_view_overview.textile index 40cde6ad84..e2b69fa0d5 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/action_view_overview.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/action_view_overview.textile @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Action View and Action Controller are the two major components of Action Pack. I Action View templates are written using embedded Ruby in tags mingled with HTML. To avoid cluttering the templates with boilerplate code, a number of helper classes provide common behavior for forms, dates, and strings. It's also easy to add new helpers to your application as it evolves. -Note: Some features of Action View are tied to Active Record, but that doesn't mean that Action View depends on Active Record. Action View is an independent package that can be used with any sort of backend. +NOTE. Some features of Action View are tied to Active Record, but that doesn't mean that Action View depends on Active Record. Action View is an independent package that can be used with any sort of backend. h3. Using Action View with Rails diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile index 2e1f89cb78..ad12dca7e8 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ This guide covers different ways to retrieve data from the database using Active * Use dynamic finders methods * Check for the existence of particular records * Perform various calculations on Active Record models +* Run EXPLAIN on relations endprologue. @@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ end But this approach becomes increasingly impractical as the table size increases, since +User.all.each+ instructs Active Record to fetch _the entire table_ in a single pass, build a model object per row, and then keep the entire array of model objects in memory. Indeed, if we have a large number of records, the entire collection may exceed the amount of memory available. -Rails provides two methods that address this problem by dividing records into memory-friendly batches for processing. The first method, +find_each+, retrieves a batch of records and then yields _each_ record to the block individually as a model. The second method, +find_in_batches+, retrieves a batch of records and then yields _the entire batch_ to the block as an array of models. +Rails provides two methods that address this problem by dividing records into memory-friendly batches for processing. The first method, +find_each+, retrieves a batch of records and then yields _each_ record to the block individually as a model. The second method, +find_in_batches+, retrieves a batch of records and then yields _the entire batch_ to the block as an array of models. TIP: The +find_each+ and +find_in_batches+ methods are intended for use in the batch processing of a large number of records that wouldn't fit in memory all at once. If you just need to loop over a thousand records the regular find methods are the preferred option. @@ -435,10 +436,26 @@ ActiveModel::MissingAttributeError: missing attribute: <attribute> Where +<attribute>+ is the attribute you asked for. The +id+ method will not raise the +ActiveRecord::MissingAttributeError+, so just be careful when working with associations because they need the +id+ method to function properly. -You can also call SQL functions within the select option. For example, if you would like to only grab a single record per unique value in a certain field by using the +DISTINCT+ function you can do it like this: +If you would like to only grab a single record per unique value in a certain field, you can use +uniq+: <ruby> -Client.select("DISTINCT(name)") +Client.select(:name).uniq +</ruby> + +This would generate SQL like: + +<sql> +SELECT DISTINCT name FROM clients +</sql> + +You can also remove the uniqueness constraint: + +<ruby> +query = Client.select(:name).uniq +# => Returns unique names + +query.uniq(false) +# => Returns all names, even if there are duplicates </ruby> h3. Limit and Offset @@ -741,7 +758,7 @@ SELECT categories.* FROM categories INNER JOIN posts ON posts.category_id = categories.id </sql> -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(:post).select("distinct(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(:post).select("distinct(categories.id)"). h5. Joining Multiple Associations @@ -1258,3 +1275,67 @@ Client.sum("orders_count") </ruby> For options, please see the parent section, "Calculations":#calculations. + +h3. Running EXPLAIN + +You can run EXPLAIN on the queries triggered by relations. For example, + +<ruby> +User.where(:id => 1).joins(:posts).explain +</ruby> + +may yield + +<plain> +<plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> +| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +<plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> +| 1 | SIMPLE | users | const | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | const | 1 | | +| 1 | SIMPLE | posts | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where | +<plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> +2 rows in set (0.00 sec) +</plain> + +under MySQL. + +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 + +<plain> + QUERY PLAN +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + Nested Loop Left Join (cost=0.00..37.24 rows=8 width=0) + Join Filter: (posts.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) +(6 rows) +</plain> + +Eager loading may trigger more than one query under the hood, and some queries +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 +</ruby> + +yields + +<plain> +<plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------<plus> +| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +<plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------<plus> +| 1 | SIMPLE | users | const | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | const | 1 | | +<plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------<plus> +1 row in set (0.00 sec) +<plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>---------------<plus>------<plus>---------<plus>------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> +| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +<plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>---------------<plus>------<plus>---------<plus>------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> +| 1 | SIMPLE | posts | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where | +<plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>---------------<plus>------<plus>---------<plus>------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> +1 row in set (0.00 sec) +</plain> + +under MySQL. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile index 665e7f9ccc..a27c292a4c 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile @@ -796,17 +796,9 @@ person.errors.size # => 0 h3. Displaying Validation Errors in the View -Rails maintains an official plugin, DynamicForm, that provides helpers to display the error messages of your models in your view templates. You can install it as a plugin or as a Gem. +"DynamicForm":https://github.com/joelmoss/dynamic_form provides helpers to display the error messages of your models in your view templates. -h4. Installing as a plugin - -<shell> -$ rails plugin install git://github.com/joelmoss/dynamic_form.git -</shell> - -h4. Installing as a Gem - -Add this line in your Gemfile: +You can install it as a gem by adding this line to your Gemfile: <ruby> gem "dynamic_form" @@ -986,15 +978,15 @@ The +after_initialize+ callback will be called whenever an Active Record object The +after_find+ callback will be called whenever Active Record loads a record from the database. +after_find+ is called before +after_initialize+ if both are defined. -The +after_initialize+ and +after_find+ callbacks are a bit different from the others. They have no +before_*+ counterparts, and they are registered simply by defining them as regular methods with predefined names. If you try to register +after_initialize+ or +after_find+ using macro-style class methods, they will just be ignored. This behavior is due to performance reasons, since +after_initialize+ and +after_find+ will both be called for each record found in the database, which would otherwise significantly slow down the queries. +The +after_initialize+ and +after_find+ callbacks have no +before_*+ counterparts, but they can be registered just like the other Active Record callbacks. <ruby> class User < ActiveRecord::Base - def after_initialize + after_initialize do |user| puts "You have initialized an object!" end - def after_find + after_find do |user| puts "You have found an object!" end end diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile index ecc25c4f1c..ff6c5f967f 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile @@ -725,6 +725,64 @@ WARNING: This method returns precise results in Ruby 1.9. In older versions of R NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/module/introspection.rb+. +h5. Qualified Constant Names + +The standard methods +const_defined?+, +const_get+ , and +const_set+ accept +bare constant names. Active Support extends this API to be able to pass +relative qualified constant names. + +The new methods are +qualified_const_defined?+, +qualified_const_get+, and ++qualified_const_set+. Their arguments are assumed to be qualified constant +names relative to their receiver: + +<ruby> +Object.qualified_const_defined?("Math::PI") # => true +Object.qualified_const_get("Math::PI") # => 3.141592653589793 +Object.qualified_const_set("Math::Phi", 1.618034) # => 1.618034 +</ruby> + +Arguments may be bare constant names: + +<ruby> +Math.qualified_const_get("E") # => 2.718281828459045 +</ruby> + +These methods are analogous to their builtin counterparts. In particular, ++qualified_constant_defined?+ accepts an optional second argument in 1.9 +to be able to say whether you want the predicate to look in the ancestors. +This flag is taken into account for each constant in the expression while +walking down the path. + +For example, given + +<ruby> +module M + X = 1 +end + +module N + class C + include M + end +end +</ruby> + ++qualified_const_defined?+ behaves this way: + +<ruby> +N.qualified_const_defined?("C::X", false) # => false (1.9 only) +N.qualified_const_defined?("C::X", true) # => true (1.9 only) +N.qualified_const_defined?("C::X") # => false in 1.8, true in 1.9 +</ruby> + +As the last example implies, in 1.9 the second argument defaults to true, +as in +const_defined?+. + +For coherence with the builtin methods only relative paths are accepted. +Absolute qualified constant names like +::Math::PI+ raise +NameError+. + +NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/module/qualified_const.rb+. + h4. Synchronization The +synchronize+ macro declares a method to be synchronized: @@ -1426,6 +1484,14 @@ The method +pluralize+ returns the plural of its receiver: As the previous example shows, Active Support knows some irregular plurals and uncountable nouns. Built-in rules can be extended in +config/initializers/inflections.rb+. That file is generated by the +rails+ command and has instructions in comments. ++pluralize+ can also take an optional +count+ parameter. If <tt>count == 1</tt> the singular form will be returned. For any other value of +count+ the plural form will be returned: + +<ruby> +"dude".pluralize(0) # => "dudes" +"dude".pluralize(1) # => "dude" +"dude".pluralize(2) # => "dudes" +</ruby> + Active Record uses this method to compute the default table name that corresponds to a model: <ruby> @@ -1589,7 +1655,7 @@ NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb+. h5. +demodulize+ -Given a string with a qualified constant reference expression, +demodulize+ returns the very constant name, that is, the rightmost part of it: +Given a string with a qualified constant name, +demodulize+ returns the very constant name, that is, the rightmost part of it: <ruby> "Product".demodulize # => "Product" @@ -1612,6 +1678,31 @@ end NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb+. +h5. +deconstantize+ + +Given a string with a qualified constant reference expression, +deconstantize+ removes the rightmost segment, generally leaving the name of the constant's container: + +<ruby> +"Product".deconstantize # => "" +"Backoffice::UsersController".deconstantize # => "Backoffice" +"Admin::Hotel::ReservationUtils".deconstantize # => "Admin::Hotel" +</ruby> + +Active Support for example uses this method in +Module#qualified_const_set+: + +<ruby> +def qualified_const_set(path, value) + QualifiedConstUtils.raise_if_absolute(path) + + const_name = path.demodulize + mod_name = path.deconstantize + mod = mod_name.empty? ? self : qualified_const_get(mod_name) + mod.const_set(const_name, value) +end +</ruby> + +NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb+. + h5. +parameterize+ The method +parameterize+ normalizes its receiver in a way that can be used in pretty URLs. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile index afaf0f6fe3..3681501293 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ bundle exec rake assets:precompile </plain> For faster asset precompiles, you can partially load your application by setting -+config.assets.initialize_on_precompile+ to false, though in that case templates ++config.assets.initialize_on_precompile+ to false in +config/application.rb+, though in that case templates cannot see application objects or methods. *Heroku requires this to be false.* WARNING: If you set +config.assets.initialize_on_precompile+ to false, be sure to @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ location ~ ^/assets/ { } </plain> -When files are precompiled, Sprockets also creates a "gzipped":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip (.gz) version of your assets. Web servers are typically configured to use a moderate compression ratio as a compromise, but since precompilation happens once Sprockets uses the maximum compression ratio, thus reducing the size of the data transfer to the minimum. One the other hand, web servers can be configured to serve compressed content directly from disk, rather than deflating non-compressed files themselves. +When files are precompiled, Sprockets also creates a "gzipped":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip (.gz) version of your assets. Web servers are typically configured to use a moderate compression ratio as a compromise, but since precompilation happens once, Sprockets uses the maximum compression ratio, thus reducing the size of the data transfer to the minimum. On the other hand, web servers can be configured to serve compressed content directly from disk, rather than deflating non-compressed files themselves. Nginx is able to do this automatically enabling +gzip_static+: diff --git a/railties/guides/source/association_basics.textile b/railties/guides/source/association_basics.textile index 6829eb8ef4..451653655f 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/association_basics.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/association_basics.textile @@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ If you need to evaluate conditions dynamically at runtime, use a proc: <ruby> class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :latest_orders, :class_name => "Order", - :conditions => proc { "orders.created_at > #{10.hours.ago.to_s(:db).inspect}" } + :conditions => proc { ["orders.created_at > ?, 10.hours.ago] } end </ruby> diff --git a/railties/guides/source/caching_with_rails.textile b/railties/guides/source/caching_with_rails.textile index 4273d0dd64..0ef6f51190 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/caching_with_rails.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/caching_with_rails.textile @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ end If you want a more complicated expiration scheme, you can use cache sweepers to expire cached objects when things change. This is covered in the section on Sweepers. -NOTE: Page caching ignores all parameters. For example +/products?page=1+ will be written out to the filesystem as +products.html+ with no reference to the +page+ parameter. Thus, if someone requests +/products?page=2+ later, they will get the cached first page. Be careful when page caching GET parameters in the URL! +NOTE: Page caching ignores all parameters. For example +/products?page=1+ will be written out to the filesystem as +products.html+ with no reference to the +page+ parameter. Thus, if someone requests +/products?page=2+ later, they will get the cached first page. A workaround for this limitation is to include the parameters in the page's path, e.g. +/productions/page/1+. INFO: Page caching runs in an after filter. Thus, invalid requests won't generate spurious cache entries as long as you halt them. Typically, a redirection in some before filter that checks request preconditions does the job. @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ h4. Action Caching One of the issues with Page Caching is that you cannot use it for pages that require to restrict access somehow. This is where Action Caching comes in. Action Caching works like Page Caching except for the fact that the incoming web request does go from the webserver to the Rails stack and Action Pack so that before filters can be run on it before the cache is served. This allows authentication and other restriction to be run while still serving the result of the output from a cached copy. -Clearing the cache works in the exact same way as with Page Caching. +Clearing the cache works in a similar way to Page Caching, except you use +expire_action+ instead of +expire_page+. Let's say you only wanted authenticated users to call actions on +ProductsController+. @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ Note that the cache will grow until the disk is full unless you periodically cle h4. ActiveSupport::Cache::MemCacheStore -This cache store uses Danga's +memcached+ server to provide a centralized cache for your application. Rails uses the bundled +memcached-client+ gem by default. This is currently the most popular cache store for production websites. It can be used to provide a single, shared cache cluster with very a high performance and redundancy. +This cache store uses Danga's +memcached+ server to provide a centralized cache for your application. Rails uses the bundled +memcache-client+ gem by default. This is currently the most popular cache store for production websites. It can be used to provide a single, shared cache cluster with very a high performance and redundancy. When initializing the cache, you need to specify the addresses for all memcached servers in your cluster. If none is specified, it will assume memcached is running on the local host on the default port, but this is not an ideal set up for larger sites. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/command_line.textile b/railties/guides/source/command_line.textile index f6b33d283c..3f8643eca3 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/command_line.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/command_line.textile @@ -381,15 +381,15 @@ $ rake about About your application's environment Ruby version 1.8.7 (x86_64-linux) RubyGems version 1.3.6 -Rack version 1.1 -Rails version 3.1.0 +Rack version 1.3 +Rails version 3.2.0.beta JavaScript Runtime Node.js (V8) -Active Record version 3.1.0 -Action Pack version 3.1.0 -Active Resource version 3.1.0 -Action Mailer version 3.1.0 -Active Support version 3.1.0 -Middleware ActionDispatch::Static, Rack::Lock, Rack::Runtime, Rails::Rack::Logger, ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions, ActionDispatch::RemoteIp, ActionDispatch::Callbacks, ActionDispatch::Cookies, ActionDispatch::Session::CookieStore, ActionDispatch::Flash, ActionDispatch::ParamsParser, Rack::MethodOverride, ActionDispatch::Head +Active Record version 3.2.0.beta +Action Pack version 3.2.0.beta +Active Resource version 3.2.0.beta +Action Mailer version 3.2.0.beta +Active Support version 3.2.0.beta +Middleware ActionDispatch::Static, Rack::Lock, Rack::Runtime, Rack::MethodOverride, ActionDispatch::RequestId, Rails::Rack::Logger, ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions, ActionDispatch::RemoteIp, ActionDispatch::Reloader, ActionDispatch::Callbacks, ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionManagement, ActiveRecord::QueryCache, ActionDispatch::Cookies, ActionDispatch::Session::CookieStore, ActionDispatch::Flash, ActionDispatch::ParamsParser, ActionDispatch::Head, Rack::ConditionalGet, Rack::ETag, ActionDispatch::BestStandardsSupport Application root /home/foobar/commandsapp Environment development Database adapter sqlite3 diff --git a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile index baf944cf8d..cd6e7d116e 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ Rails will use that particular setting to configure Active Record. h4. Rails General Configuration -* +config.after_initialize+ takes a block which will be ran _after_ Rails has finished initializing the application. That includes the initialization of the framework itself, plugins, engines, and all the application's initializers in +config/initializers+. Useful for configuring values set up by other initializers: +These configuration methods are to be called on a +Rails::Railtie+ object, such as a subclass of +Rails::Engine+ or +Rails::Application+. + +* +config.after_initialize+ takes a block which will be run _after_ Rails has finished initializing the application. That includes the initialization of the framework itself, plugins, engines, and all the application's initializers in +config/initializers+. Note that this block _will_ be run for rake tasks. Useful for configuring values set up by other initializers: <ruby> config.after_initialize do @@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ NOTE. The +config.asset_path+ configuration is ignored if the asset pipeline is * +config.autoload_paths+ accepts an array of paths from which Rails will autoload constants. Default is all directories under +app+. -* +config.cache_classes+ controls whether or not application classes and modules should be reloaded on each request. Defaults to true in development mode, and false in test and production modes. Can also be enabled with +threadsafe!+. +* +config.cache_classes+ controls whether or not application classes and modules should be reloaded on each request. Defaults to false in development mode, and true in test and production modes. Can also be enabled with +threadsafe!+. * +config.action_view.cache_template_loading+ controls whether or not templates should be reloaded on each request. Defaults to whatever is set for +config.cache_classes+. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.textile b/railties/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.textile index 5848172510..37ead2bff2 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.textile @@ -87,21 +87,21 @@ $ bundle install --without db This command will install all dependencies except the MySQL and PostgreSQL Ruby drivers. We will come back at these soon. With dependencies installed, you can run the test suite with: <shell> -$ rake test +$ bundle exec rake test </shell> You can also run tests for a specific framework, like Action Pack, by going into its directory and executing the same command: <shell> $ cd actionpack -$ rake test +$ bundle exec rake test </shell> If you want to run tests from the specific directory use the +TEST_DIR+ environment variable. For example, this will run tests inside +railties/test/generators+ directory only: <shell> $ cd railties -$ TEST_DIR=generators rake test +$ TEST_DIR=generators bundle exec rake test </shell> h4. Warnings @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ The test suite runs with warnings enabled. Ideally Ruby on Rails should issue no As of this writing they are specially noisy with Ruby 1.9. If you are sure about what you are doing and would like to have a more clear output, there's a way to override the flag: <shell> -$ RUBYOPT=-W0 rake test +$ RUBYOPT=-W0 bundle exec rake test </shell> h4. Testing Active Record @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ The gem +sqlite3-ruby+ does not belong to the "db" group indeed, if you followed <shell> $ cd activerecord -$ rake test_sqlite3 +$ bundle exec rake test_sqlite3 </shell> h5. MySQL and PostgreSQL @@ -195,12 +195,12 @@ test_postgresql respectively. As we mentioned before <shell> -$ rake test +$ bundle exec rake test </shell> will now run the four of them in turn. -You can also invoke +test_jdbcmysql+, +test_jdbcsqlite3+ or +test_jdbcpostgresql+. Check out the file +activerecord/RUNNING_UNIT_TESTS+ for information on running more targeted database tests, or the file +ci/ci_build.rb+ to see the test suite that the continuous integration server runs. +You can also invoke +test_jdbcmysql+, +test_jdbcsqlite3+ or +test_jdbcpostgresql+. Check out the file +activerecord/RUNNING_UNIT_TESTS+ for information on running more targeted database tests, or the file +ci/travis.rb+ to see the test suite that the continuous integration server runs. h4. Older versions of Ruby on Rails @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ TIP: You may want to "put your git branch name in your shell prompt":http://qugs h3. Helping to Resolve Existing Issues -As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing issues. If you check the "Everyone's Issues":https://github.com/rails/rails/issues?sort=created&direction=desc&state=open&page=1 list in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually: +As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing issues. If you check the "Everyone's Issues":https://github.com/rails/rails/issues list in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually: h4. Verifying Bug Reports diff --git a/railties/guides/source/engines.textile b/railties/guides/source/engines.textile index 126d09ab87..694b36bea1 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/engines.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/engines.textile @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Also in the test directory is the +test/integration+ directory, where integratio h3. Providing engine functionality -The engine that this guide covers will provide posting and commenting functionality. +The engine that this guide covers will provide posting and commenting functionality and follows a similar thread to the "Getting Started Guide":getting-started.html, with some new twists. h4. Generating a post resource @@ -343,9 +343,13 @@ The +comment_counter+ local variable is given to us by the +<%= render @post.com That completes the comment function of the blogging engine. Now it's time to use it within an application. -h3. Hooking into application +h3. Hooking into an application -Using an engine within an application is very easy. First, the engine needs to be specified inside the application's +Gemfile+. If there isn't an application handy to test this out in, generate one using the +rails new+ command outside of the engine directory like this: +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 for it, as well as linking the engine to a +User+ class provided by the application to provide ownership for posts and comments within the engine. + +h4. Mounting the engine + +First, the engine needs to be specified inside the application's +Gemfile+. If there isn't an application handy to test this out in, generate one using the +rails new+ command outside of the engine directory like this: <shell> $ rails new unicorn @@ -374,20 +378,241 @@ As described earlier, by placing the gem in the +Gemfile+ it will be loaded when To make the engine's functionality accessible from within an application, it needs to be mounted in that application's +config/routes.rb+ file: <ruby> - mount Blorgh::Engine, :at => "blog" +mount Blorgh::Engine, :at => "blog" </ruby> +This line will mount the engine at +blog+ in the application. Making it accessible at +http://localhost:3000/blog+ when the application runs with +rails s+. + NOTE: Other engines, such as Devise, handle this a little differently by making you specify custom helpers such as +devise_for+ in the routes. These helpers do exactly the same thing, mounting pieces of the engines's functionality at a pre-defined path which may be customizable. +h4. Engine setup + +The engine contains migrations for the +blorgh_posts+ 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: + +<shell> +$ rake blorgh:install:migrations +</shell> + +This command, when run for the first time will copy over all the migrations from the engine. When run the next time, it will only copy over migrations that haven't been copied over already. The first run for this command will output something such as this: + +<shell> +Copied migration [timestamp_1]_create_blorgh_posts.rb from blorgh +Copied migration [timestamp_2]_create_blorgh_comments.rb from blorgh +</shell> + +The first timestamp (+\[timestamp_1\]+) will be the current time and the second timestamp (+\[timestamp_2\]+) will be the current time plus a second. The reason for this is so that the migrations for the engine are run after any existing 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 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. + +h4. Using a class provided by the application + +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 have authors would make a lot of sense. + +Usually, an application would have a +User+ class that would provide the objects that would represent the posts' and comments' authors, but there could be a case where the application calls this class something different, such as +Person+. It's because of this reason that the engine should not hardcode the associations to be exactly for a +User+ class, but should allow for some flexibility around what the class is called. + +To keep it simple in this case, the application will have a class called +User+ which will represent the users of the application. It can be generated using this command: + +<shell> +rails g model user name:string +</shell> + +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 +author_name_+ where users can elect to put their name. The engine will then take this name and create a new +User+ object from it or find one that already has that name, and then associate the post with it. + +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 added above the +title+ field with this code: + +<erb> +<div class="field"> + <%= f.label :author_name %><br /> + <%= f.text_field :author_name %> +</div> +</erb> + +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+ setup 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 +User+ class for the time being. + +<ruby> +attr_accessor :author_name +belongs_to :author, :class_name => "User" + +before_save :set_author + +private + def set_author + self.author = User.find_or_create_by_name(author_name) + end +</ruby> + +By defining that the +author+ association's object is represented by 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 +users+ table. Because the association is called +author+, there should be an +author_id+ column added to the +blorgh_posts+ table. + +To generate this new column, run this command within the engine: + +<shell> +$ rails g migration add_author_id_to_blorgh_posts author_id:integer +</shell> + +NOTE: Due to the migration's name and the column specification after it, Rails will automatically know that you want to add a column to a specific table and write that into the migration for you. You don't need to tell it any more than this. + +This migration will need to be run on the application. To do that, it must first be copied using this command: + +<shell> +$ rake blorgh:install:migrations +</shell> + +Notice here 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. + +<shell> + NOTE: Migration [timestamp]_create_blorgh_posts.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 +</shell> + +Run this migration using this command: + +<shell> +$ rake db:migrate +</shell> + +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. + +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+: + +<erb> +<p> + <b>Author:</b> + <%= @post.author %> +</p> +</erb> + +WARNING: For posts created previously, this will break the +show+ page for them. We recommend deleting these posts and starting again, or manually assigning an author using +rails c+. + +By outputting +@post.author+ using the +<%=+ tag the +to_s+ method will be called on the object. By default, this will look quite ugly: + +<text> +#<User:0x00000100ccb3b0> +</text> + +This is undesirable and it would be much better to have the user's name there. To do this, add a +to_s+ method to the +User+ class within the application: + +<ruby> +def to_s + name +end +</ruby> + +Now instead of the ugly Ruby object output the author's name will be displayed. + +h4. Configuring an engine + +This section covers firstly how you can make the +user_class+ setting of the Blorgh engine configurable, followed by general configuration tips for the engine. + +h5. Setting configuration settings in the application + +The next step is to make the class that represents a +User+ in the application customizable for the engine. This is because, as explained before, that class may not always be +User+. To make this customizable, the engine will have a configuration setting called +user_class+ that will be used to specify what the class representing users is inside the application. + +To define this configuration setting, you should use a +mattr_accessor+ inside the +Blorgh+ module for the engine, located at +lib/blorgh.rb+ inside the engine. Inside this module, put this line: + +<ruby> +mattr_accessor :user_class +</ruby> + +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.user_class+. + +The next step is switching the +Blorgh::Post+ model over to this new setting. For the +belongs_to+ association inside this model (+app/models/blorgh/post.rb+), it will now become this: + +<ruby> +belongs_to :author, :class_name => Blorgh.user_class +</ruby> + +The +set_author+ method also located in this class should also use this class: + +<ruby> +self.author = Blorgh.user_class.constantize.find_or_create_by_name(author_name) +</ruby> + +To set this configuration setting within the application, an initializer should be used. By using an initializer, the configuration will be set up before the application starts and makes references to the classes of the engine which may depend on this configuration setting existing. + +Create a new initializer at +config/initializers/blorgh.rb+ inside the application where the +blorgh+ engine is installed and put this content in it: + +<ruby> +Blorgh.user_class = "User" +</ruby> + +WARNING: It's very important here to use the +String+ version of the class, rather than the class itself. If you were to use the class, Rails would attempt to load that class and then reference the related table, which 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 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 class's API must be. The engine simply requires this class to define a +find_or_create_by_name+ method which returns an object of that class to be associated with a post when it's created. +h5. General engine configuration -This line will mount the engine -TODO: Application will provide a User foundation class which the engine hooks into through a configuration setting, configurable in the application's initializers. The engine will be mounted at the +/blog+ path in the application. +Within an engine, there may come a time where you wish to use things such as initializers, internationalization or other configuration options. The great news is that these things are entirely possible because a Rails engine shares much the same functionality as a Rails application. In fact, a Rails application's functionality is actually a superset of what is provided by engines! -h3. Overriding engine functionality +If you wish to use initializers (code that should run before the engine is loaded), the best place for them is the +config/initializers+ folder. This directory's functionality is explained in the "Initializers section":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#initializers of the Configuring guide. -TODO: Cover how to override engine functionality in the engine, such as controllers and views. +For locales, simply place the locale files in the +config/locales+ directory, just like you would in an application. +h3. Extending engine functionality + +This section looks at overriding or adding functionality to the views, controllers and models provided by an engine. + +h4. Overriding views + +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, then it will check in the +app/views+ directories of all engines which have this directory. + +In the +blorgh+ engine, there is a currently a file at +app/views/blorgh/posts/index.html.erb+. When the engine is asked to render the view for +Blorgh::PostsController+'s +index+ action, it will first see if it can find it at +app/views/blorgh/posts/index.html.erb+ within the application and then if it cannot it will look inside the engine. + +By overriding this view in the application, by simply creating a new file at +app/views/blorgh/posts/index.html.erb+, 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+ and put this content in it: + +<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) %> + <hr> +<% end %> +</erb> + +Rather than looking like the default scaffold, the page will now look like this: + +!images/engines_post_override.png(Engine scaffold overriden)! + +h4. Controllers + +TODO: Explain how to extend a controller. IDEA: I like Devise's +devise :controllers => { "sessions" => "sessions" }+ idea. Perhaps we could incorporate that into the guide? + +h4. Models + +TODO: Explain how to extend models provided by an engine. + +h4. Routes + +Within the application, you may wish to link to some area within the engine. Due to the fact that the engine's routes are isolated (by the +isolate_namespace+ call within the +lib/blorgh/engine.rb+ file), you will need to prefix these routes with the engine name. This means rather than having something such as: + +<erb> +<%= link_to "Blog posts", posts_path %> +</erb> + +It needs to be written as: + +<erb> +<%= link_to "Blog posts", blorgh.posts_path %> +</erb> + +This allows for the engine _and_ the application to both have a +posts_path+ routing helper and to not interfere with each other. You may also reference another engine's routes from inside an engine using this same syntax. + +If you wish to reference the application inside the engine in a similar way, use the +main_app+ helper: + +<erb> +<%= link_to "Home", main_app.root_path %> +</erb> + TODO: Mention how to use assets within an engine? TODO: Mention how to depend on external gems, like RedCarpet. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile index bf6104b96b..fde83ae730 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ in rails/railties/guides/code/getting_started. h3. What is Rails? +TIP: This section goes into the background and philosophy of the Rails framework +in detail. You can safely skip this section and come back to it at a later time. +Section 3 starts you on the path to creating your first Rails application. + Rails is a web application development framework written in the Ruby language. It is designed to make programming web applications easier by making assumptions about what every developer needs to get started. It allows you to write less @@ -215,7 +219,11 @@ Ian Robinson h3. Creating a New Rails Project -If you follow this guide, you'll create a Rails project called <tt>blog</tt>, a +The best way to use this guide is to follow each step as it happens, no code or +step needed to make this example application has been left out, so you can +literally follow along step by step. You can get the complete code "here":https://github.com/lifo/docrails/tree/master/railties/guides/code/getting_started. + +By following along with this guide, you'll create a Rails project called <tt>blog</tt>, a (very) simple weblog. Before you can start building the application, you need to make sure that you have Rails itself installed. @@ -233,13 +241,16 @@ Usually run this as the root user: TIP. If you're working on Windows, you can quickly install Ruby and Rails with "Rails Installer":http://railsinstaller.org. -h4. Creating the Blog Application +To verify that you have everything installed correctly, you should be able to run +the following: -The best way to use this guide is to follow each step as it happens, no code or -step needed to make this example application has been left out, so you can -literally follow along step by step. If you need to see the completed code, you -can download it from "Getting Started -Code":https://github.com/mikel/getting-started-code. +<shell> +$ rails --version +</shell> + +If it says something like "Rails 3.1.1" you are ready to continue. + +h4. Creating the Blog Application To begin, open a terminal, navigate to a folder where you have rights to create files, and type: @@ -261,41 +272,50 @@ directly in that application: $ cd blog </shell> -In any case, Rails will create a folder in your working directory called -<tt>blog</tt>. Open up that folder and explore its contents. Most of the work in +The 'rails new blog' command we ran above created a folder in your working directory +called <tt>blog</tt>. The <tt>blog</tt> folder has a number of auto-generated folders +that make up the structure of a Rails application. Most of the work in this tutorial will happen in the <tt>app/</tt> folder, but here's a basic -rundown on the function of each folder that Rails creates in a new application -by default: +rundown on the function of each of the files and folders that Rails created by default: |_.File/Folder|_.Purpose| -|Gemfile|This file allows you to specify what gem dependencies are needed for your Rails application. See section on Bundler, below.| -|README|This is a brief instruction manual for your application. You should edit this file to tell others what your application does, how to set it up, and so on.| -|Rakefile|This file locates and loads tasks that can be run from the command line. The task definitions are defined throughout the components of Rails. Rather than changing Rakefile, you should add your own tasks by adding files to the lib/tasks directory of your application.| |app/|Contains the controllers, models, views and assets for your application. You'll focus on this folder for the remainder of this guide.| -|config/|Configure your application's runtime rules, routes, database, and more.| +|config/|Configure your application's runtime rules, 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/|Shows your current database schema, as well as the database migrations. You'll learn about migrations shortly.| +|db/|Contains your current database schema, as well as the database migrations.| |doc/|In-depth documentation for your application.| -|lib/|Extended modules for your application (not covered in this guide).| +|Gemfile<BR />Gemfile.lock|These files allow you to specify what gem dependencies are needed for your Rails application.| +|lib/|Extended modules for your application.| |log/|Application log files.| |public/|The only folder seen to the world as-is. Contains the static files and compiled assets.| +|Rakefile|This file locates and loads tasks that can be run from the command line. The task definitions are defined throughout the components of Rails. Rather than changing Rakefile, you should add your own tasks by adding files to the lib/tasks directory of your application.| +|README|This is a brief instruction manual for your application. You should edit this file to tell others what your application does, how to set it up, and so on.| |script/|Contains the rails script that starts your app and can contain other scripts you use to deploy or run your application.| |test/|Unit tests, fixtures, and other test apparatus. These are covered in "Testing Rails Applications":testing.html| |tmp/|Temporary files| -|vendor/|A place for all third-party code. In a typical Rails application, this includes Ruby Gems, the Rails source code (if you install it into your project) and plugins containing additional prepackaged functionality.| +|vendor/|A place for all third-party code. In a typical Rails application, this includes Ruby Gems, the Rails source code (if you optionally install it into your project) and plugins containing additional prepackaged functionality.| h4. Configuring a Database Just about every Rails application will interact with a database. The database to use is specified in a configuration file, +config/database.yml+. If you open this file in a new Rails application, you'll see a default database -configuration using SQLite3. The file contains sections for three different +configured to use SQLite3. The file contains sections for three different environments in which Rails can run by default: -* The +development+ environment is used on your development computer as you interact manually with the application. -* The +test+ environment is used to run automated tests. +* The +development+ environment is used on your development/local computer as you interact +manually with the application. +* The +test+ environment is used when running automated tests. * The +production+ environment is used when you deploy your application for the world to use. +TIP: You don't have to update the database configurations manually. If you look at the +options of the application generator, you will see that one of the options +is named <tt>--database</tt>. This option allows you to choose an adapter from a +list of the most used relational databases. You can even run the generator +repeatedly: <tt>cd .. && rails new blog --database=mysql</tt>. When you confirm the overwriting + of the +config/database.yml+ file, your application will be configured for MySQL +instead of SQLite. Detailed examples of the common database connections are below. + h5. Configuring an SQLite3 Database Rails comes with built-in support for "SQLite3":http://www.sqlite.org, which is @@ -399,14 +419,6 @@ development: Change the username and password in the +development+ section as appropriate. -TIP: You don't have to update the database configurations manually. If you look at the -options of the application generator, you will see that one of the options -is named <tt>--database</tt>. This option allows you to choose an adapter from a -list of the most used relational databases. You can even run the generator -repeatedly: <tt>cd .. && rails new blog --database=mysql</tt>. When you confirm the overwriting - of the +config/database.yml+ file, your application will be configured for MySQL -instead of SQLite. - h4. Creating the Database Now that you have your database configured, it's time to have Rails create an @@ -480,7 +492,7 @@ Open this file in your text editor and edit it to contain a single line of code: h4. Setting the Application Home Page Now that we have made the controller and view, we need to tell Rails when we -want "Hello Rails" to show up. In our case, we want it to show up when we +want "Hello Rails!" to show up. In our case, we want it to show up when we navigate to the root URL of our site, "http://localhost:3000":http://localhost:3000, instead of the "Welcome Aboard" smoke test. @@ -501,8 +513,7 @@ file_ which holds entries in a special DSL (domain-specific language) that tells Rails how to connect incoming requests to controllers and actions. This file contains many sample routes on commented lines, and one of them actually shows you how to connect the root of your site to a specific controller and action. -Find the line beginning with +root :to+, uncomment it and change it like the -following: +Find the line beginning with +root :to+ and uncomment it. It should look something like the following: <ruby> Blog::Application.routes.draw do @@ -530,7 +541,7 @@ resource in a single operation, scaffolding is the tool for the job. h3. Creating a Resource -In the case of the blog application, you can start by generating a scaffolded +In the case of the blog application, you can start by generating a scaffold for the Post resource: this will represent a single blog posting. To do this, enter this command in your terminal: @@ -544,21 +555,21 @@ folders, and edit <tt>config/routes.rb</tt>. Here's a quick overview of what it |_.File |_.Purpose| |db/migrate/20100207214725_create_posts.rb |Migration to create the posts table in your database (your name will include a different timestamp)| |app/models/post.rb |The Post model| -|test/fixtures/posts.yml |Dummy posts for use in testing| +|test/unit/post_test.rb |Unit testing harness for the posts model| +|test/fixtures/posts.yml |Sample posts for use in testing| +|config/routes.rb |Edited to include routing information for posts| |app/controllers/posts_controller.rb |The Posts controller| |app/views/posts/index.html.erb |A view to display an index of all posts | |app/views/posts/edit.html.erb |A view to edit an existing post| |app/views/posts/show.html.erb |A view to display a single post| |app/views/posts/new.html.erb |A view to create a new post| |app/views/posts/_form.html.erb |A partial to control the overall look and feel of the form used in edit and new views| -|app/helpers/posts_helper.rb |Helper functions to be used from the post views| -|app/assets/stylesheets/scaffolds.css.scss |Cascading style sheet to make the scaffolded views look better| -|app/assets/stylesheets/posts.css.scss |Cascading style sheet for the posts controller| -|app/assets/javascripts/posts.js.coffee |CoffeeScript for the posts controller| -|test/unit/post_test.rb |Unit testing harness for the posts model| |test/functional/posts_controller_test.rb |Functional testing harness for the posts controller| +|app/helpers/posts_helper.rb |Helper functions to be used from the post views| |test/unit/helpers/posts_helper_test.rb |Unit testing harness for the posts helper| -|config/routes.rb |Edited to include routing information for posts| +|app/assets/javascripts/posts.js.coffee |CoffeeScript for the posts controller| +|app/assets/stylesheets/posts.css.scss |Cascading style sheet for the posts controller| +|app/assets/stylesheets/scaffolds.css.scss |Cascading style sheet to make the scaffolded views look better| NOTE. While scaffolding will get you up and running quickly, the code it generates is unlikely to be a perfect fit for your application. You'll most @@ -596,11 +607,11 @@ end </ruby> The above migration creates a method named +change+ which will be called when you -run this migration. The action defined in that method is also reversible, which +run this migration. The action defined in this method is also reversible, which means Rails knows how to reverse the change made by this migration, in case you -want to reverse it at later date. By default, when you run this migration it -creates a +posts+ table with two string columns and a text column. It also -creates two timestamp fields to track record creation and updating. More +want to reverse it later. When you run this migration it will create a ++posts+ table with two string columns and a text column. It also creates two +timestamp fields to allow Rails to track post creation and update times. More information about Rails migrations can be found in the "Rails Database Migrations":migrations.html guide. @@ -620,7 +631,7 @@ table. == CreatePosts: migrated (0.0020s) =========================================== </shell> -NOTE. Because by default you're working in the development environment, this +NOTE. Because you're working in the development environment by default, this command will apply to the database defined in the +development+ section of your +config/database.yml+ file. If you would like to execute migrations in another environment, for instance in production, you must explicitly pass it when @@ -691,7 +702,8 @@ end These changes will ensure that all posts have a name and a title, and that the title is at least five characters long. Rails can validate a variety of conditions in a model, including the presence or uniqueness of columns, their -format, and the existence of associated objects. +format, and the existence of associated objects. Validations are covered in detail +in "Active Record Validations and Callbacks":active_record_validations_callbacks.html#validations-overview h4. Using the Console @@ -716,10 +728,8 @@ After the console loads, you can use it to work with your application's models: updated_at: nil> >> p.save => false ->> p.errors -=> #<OrderedHash { :title=>["can't be blank", - "is too short (minimum is 5 characters)"], - :name=>["can't be blank"] }> +>> p.errors.full_messages +=> ["Name can't be blank", "Title can't be blank", "Title is too short (minimum is 5 characters)"] </shell> This code shows creating a new +Post+ instance, attempting to save it and @@ -729,13 +739,14 @@ inspecting the +errors+ of the post. When you're finished, type +exit+ and hit +return+ to exit the console. TIP: Unlike the development web server, the console does not automatically load -your code afresh for each line. If you make changes to your models while the -console is open, type +reload!+ at the console prompt to load them. +your code afresh for each line. If you make changes to your models (in your editor) +while the console is open, type +reload!+ at the console prompt to load them. h4. Listing All Posts -The easiest place to start looking at functionality is with the code that lists -all posts. Open the file +app/controllers/posts_controller.rb+ and look at the +Let's dive into the Rails code a little deeper to see how the application is +showing us the list of Posts. Open the file ++app/controllers/posts_controller.rb+ and look at the +index+ action: <ruby> @@ -749,9 +760,8 @@ def index end </ruby> -+Post.all+ calls the +Post+ model to return all of the posts currently in the -database. The result of this call is an array of posts that we store in an -instance variable called +@posts+. ++Post.all+ returns all of the posts currently in the database as an array +of +Post+ records that we store in an instance variable called +@posts+. TIP: For more information on finding records with Active Record, see "Active Record Query Interface":active_record_querying.html. @@ -802,7 +812,7 @@ and links. A few things to note in the view: NOTE. In previous versions of Rails, you had to use +<%=h post.name %>+ so that any HTML would be escaped before being inserted into the page. In Rails -3.0, this is now the default. To get unescaped HTML, you now use +<%= raw +3.0+, this is now the default. To get unescaped HTML, you now use +<%= raw post.name %>+. TIP: For more details on the rendering process, see "Layouts and Rendering in @@ -816,9 +826,10 @@ Rails renders a view to the browser, it does so by putting the view's HTML into a layout's HTML. In previous versions of Rails, the +rails generate scaffold+ command would automatically create a controller specific layout, like +app/views/layouts/posts.html.erb+, for the posts controller. However this has -been changed in Rails 3.0. An application specific +layout+ is used for all the +been changed in Rails 3.0+. An application specific +layout+ is used for all the controllers and can be found in +app/views/layouts/application.html.erb+. Open -this layout in your editor and modify the +body+ tag: +this layout in your editor and modify the +body+ tag to include the style directive +below: <erb> <!DOCTYPE html> @@ -996,7 +1007,7 @@ end The +show+ action uses +Post.find+ to search for a single record in the database by its id value. After finding the record, Rails displays it by using -+show.html.erb+: ++app/views/posts/show.html.erb+: <erb> <p class="notice"><%= notice %></p> @@ -1060,7 +1071,7 @@ def update if @post.update_attributes(params[:post]) format.html { redirect_to(@post, :notice => 'Post was successfully updated.') } - format.json { render :json => {}, :status => :ok } + format.json { head :no_content } else format.html { render :action => "edit" } format.json { render :json => @post.errors, @@ -1089,7 +1100,7 @@ def destroy respond_to do |format| format.html { redirect_to posts_url } - format.json { head :ok } + format.json { head :no_content } end end </ruby> @@ -1101,7 +1112,7 @@ the controller. h3. Adding a Second Model -Now that you've seen how a model built with scaffolding looks like, it's time to +Now that you've seen what a model built with scaffolding looks like, it's time to add a second model to the application. The second model will handle comments on blog posts. @@ -1120,9 +1131,11 @@ $ rails generate model Comment commenter:string body:text post:references This command will generate four files: -* +app/models/comment.rb+ - The model. -* +db/migrate/20100207235629_create_comments.rb+ - The migration. -* +test/unit/comment_test.rb+ and +test/fixtures/comments.yml+ - The test harness. +|_.File |_.Purpose| +|db/migrate/20100207235629_create_comments.rb | Migration to create the comments table in your database (your name will include a different timestamp) | +| app/models/comment.rb | The Comment model | +| test/unit/comment_test.rb | Unit testing harness for the comments model | +| test/fixtures/comments.yml | Sample comments for use in testing | First, take a look at +comment.rb+: @@ -1169,8 +1182,10 @@ run against the current database, so in this case you will just see: <shell> == CreateComments: migrating ================================================= -- create_table(:comments) - -> 0.0017s -== CreateComments: migrated (0.0018s) ======================================== + -> 0.0008s +-- add_index(:comments, :post_id) + -> 0.0003s +== CreateComments: migrated (0.0012s) ======================================== </shell> h4. Associating Models @@ -1243,13 +1258,14 @@ $ rails generate controller Comments This creates six files and one empty directory: -* +app/controllers/comments_controller.rb+ - The controller. -* +app/helpers/comments_helper.rb+ - A view helper file. -* +test/functional/comments_controller_test.rb+ - The functional tests for the controller. -* +test/unit/helpers/comments_helper_test.rb+ - The unit tests for the helper. -* +app/views/comments/+ - Views of the controller are stored here. -* +app/assets/stylesheets/comment.css.scss+ - Cascading style sheet for the controller. -* +app/assets/javascripts/comment.js.coffee+ - CoffeeScript for the controller. +|_.File/Directory |_.Purpose | +| app/controllers/comments_controller.rb | The Comments controller | +| app/views/comments/ | Views of the controller are stored here | +| test/functional/comments_controller_test.rb | The functional tests for the controller | +| app/helpers/comments_helper.rb | A view helper file | +| test/unit/helpers/comments_helper_test.rb | The unit tests for the helper | +| app/assets/javascripts/comment.js.coffee | CoffeeScript for the controller | +| app/assets/stylesheets/comment.css.scss | Cascading style sheet for the controller | Like with any blog, our readers will create their comments directly after reading the post, and once they have added their comment, will be sent back to diff --git a/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile b/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile index 2d4cc13571..e9477e84cf 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ end Now, when you call the +books_path+ method you should get +"/en/books"+ (for the default locale). An URL like +http://localhost:3001/nl/books+ should load the Netherlands locale, then, and following calls to +books_path+ should return +"/nl/books"+ (because the locale changed). -If you don't want to force the use of a locale in your routes you can use an optional path scope (donated by the use brackets) like so: +If you don't want to force the use of a locale in your routes you can use an optional path scope (denoted by the parentheses) like so: <ruby> # config/routes.rb diff --git a/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile b/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile index 32b41fdd2c..036b356a37 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ This guide explains the internals of the initialization process in Rails as of R endprologue. -This guide goes through every single file, class and method call that is required to boot up the Ruby on Rails stack for a default Rails 3.1 application, explaining each part in detail a long the way. For this guide, we will be focusing on how the two most common methods (+rails server+ and Passenger) boot a Rails application. +This guide goes through every single file, class and method call that is required to boot up the Ruby on Rails stack for a default Rails 3.1 application, explaining each part in detail along the way. For this guide, we will be focusing on how the two most common methods (+rails server+ and Passenger) boot a Rails application. NOTE: Paths in this guide are relative to Rails or a Rails application unless otherwise specified. @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ In this file there are a lot of lines such as this inside the +ActiveSupport+ mo autoload :Inflector </ruby> -Due to the overriding of the +autoload+ method, Ruby will know to look for this file at +activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb+ when the +Inflector+ class is first referenced. +Due to the overriding of the +autoload+ method, Ruby will know how to look for this file at +activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb+ when the +Inflector+ class is first referenced. The +active_support/lib/active_support/version.rb+ that is also required here simply defines an +ActiveSupport::VERSION+ constant which defines a couple of constants inside this module, the main constant of this is +ActiveSupport::VERSION::STRING+ which returns the current version of ActiveSupport. @@ -525,19 +525,19 @@ silence_warnings do end </ruby> -These methods can be used to silence STDERR responses and the +silence_stream+ allows you to also silence other streams. Additionally, this mixin allows you to suppress exceptions and capture streams. For more information see the "Silencing Warnings, Streams, and Exceptions":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html#silencing-warnings-streams-and-exceptions section from the Active Support Core Extensions Guide. +These methods can be used to silence STDERR responses and the +silence_stream+ allows you to also silence other streams. Additionally, this mixin allows you to suppress exceptions and capture streams. For more information see the "Silencing Warnings, Streams, and Exceptions":active_support_core_extensions.html#silencing-warnings-streams-and-exceptions section from the Active Support Core Extensions Guide. h4. +active_support/core_ext/logger.rb+ The next file that is required is another Active Support core extension, this time to the +Logger+ class. This begins by defining the +around_[level]+ helpers for the +Logger+ class as well as other methods such as a +datetime_format+ getter and setter for the +formatter+ object tied to a +Logger+ object. -For more information see the "Extensions to Logger":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html#extensions-to-logger section from the Active Support Core Extensions Guide. +For more information see the "Extensions to Logger":active_support_core_extensions.html#extensions-to-logger section from the Active Support Core Extensions Guide. h4. +railties/lib/rails/application.rb+ The next file required by +railties/lib/rails.rb+ is +application.rb+. This file defines the +Rails::Application+ constant which the application's class defined in +config/application.rb+ in a standard Rails application depends on. Before the +Rails::Application+ class is defined however, there's some other files that get required first. -The first of these is +active_support/core_ext/hash/reverse_merge+ which can be "read about in the Active Support Core Extensions guide":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html#merging under the "Merging" section. +The first of these is +active_support/core_ext/hash/reverse_merge+ which can be "read about in the Active Support Core Extensions guide":active_support_core_extensions.html#merging under the "Merging" section. h4. +active_support/file_update_checker.rb+ @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ Now that +rails/initializable.rb+ has finished being required from +rails/railti h4. +railties/lib/rails/configuration.rb+ -This file defines the +Rails::Configuration+ module, containing the +MiddlewareStackProxy+ class as well as the +Generators+ class. The +MiddlewareStackProxy+ class is used for managing the middleware stack for an application, which we'll see later on. The +Generators+ class provides the functionality used for configuring what generators an application uses through the "+config.generators+ option":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-generators. +This file defines the +Rails::Configuration+ module, containing the +MiddlewareStackProxy+ class as well as the +Generators+ class. The +MiddlewareStackProxy+ class is used for managing the middleware stack for an application, which we'll see later on. The +Generators+ class provides the functionality used for configuring what generators an application uses through the "+config.generators+ option":configuring.html#configuring-generators. The first file required in this file is +activesupport/deprecation+. @@ -598,11 +598,11 @@ This file defines the +ActiveSupport::Notifications+ module. Notifications provi The "API documentation":http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Notifications.html for +ActiveSupport::Notifications+ explains the usage of this module, including the methods that it defines. -The file required in +active_support/notifications.rb+ is +active_support/core_ext/module/delegation+ which is documented in the "Active Support Core Extensions Guide":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html#method-delegation. +The file required in +active_support/notifications.rb+ is +active_support/core_ext/module/delegation+ which is documented in the "Active Support Core Extensions Guide":active_support_core_extensions.html#method-delegation. h4. +activesupport/core_ext/array/wrap+ -As this file comprises of a core extension, it is covered exclusively in "the Active Support Core Extensions guide":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html#wrapping +As this file comprises of a core extension, it is covered exclusively in "the Active Support Core Extensions guide":active_support_core_extensions.html#wrapping h4. +activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecation/reporting.rb+ @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ h4. +active_support/ordered_options+ This file is the next file required from +rails/configuration.rb+ is the file that defines +ActiveSupport::OrderedOptions+ which is used for configuration options such as +config.active_support+ and the like. -The next file required is +active_support/core_ext/hash/deep_dup+ which is covered in "Active Support Core Extensions guide":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html#deep_dup +The next file required is +active_support/core_ext/hash/deep_dup+ which is covered in "Active Support Core Extensions guide":active_support_core_extensions.html#deep_dup The file that is required next from is +rails/paths+ @@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ When the module from this file (+Rails::Initializable+) is included, it extends h4. +railties/lib/rails/engine.rb+ -The next file required in +rails/engine.rb+ is +active_support/core_ext/module/delegation+ which is documented in the "Active Support Core Extensions Guide":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html#method-delegation. +The next file required in +rails/engine.rb+ is +active_support/core_ext/module/delegation+ which is documented in the "Active Support Core Extensions Guide":active_support_core_extensions.html#method-delegation. The next two files after this are Ruby standard library files: +pathname+ and +rbconfig+. The file after these is +rails/engine/railties+. @@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ Once this file has finished loading we jump back to +railties/lib/rails/plugin.r h4. Back to +railties/lib/rails/plugin.rb+ -The next file required in this is a core extension from Active Support called +array/conversions+ which is covered in "this section":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html#array-conversions of the Active Support Core Extensions Guide. +The next file required in this is a core extension from Active Support called +array/conversions+ which is covered in "this section":active_support_core_extensions.html#array-conversions of the Active Support Core Extensions Guide. Once that file has finished loading, the +Rails::Plugin+ class is defined. @@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ def initializer(name, opts = {}, &blk) end </ruby> -An initializer can be configured to run before or after another initializer, which we'll see a couple of times throughout this initialization process. Anything that inherits from +Rails::Railtie+ may also make use of the +initializer+ method, something which is covered in the "Configuration guide":[http://ryanbigg.com/guides/configuring.html#rails-railtie-initializer]. +An initializer can be configured to run before or after another initializer, which we'll see a couple of times throughout this initialization process. Anything that inherits from +Rails::Railtie+ may also make use of the +initializer+ method, something which is covered in the "Configuration guide":configuring.html#rails-railtie-initializer. The +Initializer+ class here is defined within the +Rails::Initializable+ module and its +initialize+ method is defined to just set up a couple of variables: diff --git a/railties/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.textile b/railties/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.textile index 69ef05104c..df7b9b364c 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.textile @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ render :status => 500 render :status => :forbidden </ruby> -Rails understands both numeric status codes and symbols for status codes. +Rails understands both numeric and symbolic status codes. h6. The +:location+ Option @@ -348,9 +348,9 @@ h5. Finding Layouts To find the current layout, Rails first looks for a file in +app/views/layouts+ with the same base name as the controller. For example, rendering actions from the +PhotosController+ class will use +app/views/layouts/photos.html.erb+ (or +app/views/layouts/photos.builder+). If there is no such controller-specific layout, Rails will use +app/views/layouts/application.html.erb+ or +app/views/layouts/application.builder+. If there is no +.erb+ layout, Rails will use a +.builder+ layout if one exists. Rails also provides several ways to more precisely assign specific layouts to individual controllers and actions. -h6. Specifying Layouts on a per-Controller Basis +h6. Specifying Layouts for Controllers -You can override the automatic layout conventions in your controllers by using the +layout+ declaration in the controller. For example: +You can override the default layout conventions in your controllers by using the +layout+ declaration. For example: <ruby> class ProductsController < ApplicationController @@ -359,9 +359,9 @@ class ProductsController < ApplicationController end </ruby> -With this declaration, all methods within +ProductsController+ will use +app/views/layouts/inventory.html.erb+ for their layout. +With this declaration, all of the methods within +ProductsController+ will use +app/views/layouts/inventory.html.erb+ for their layout. -To assign a specific layout for the entire application, use a declaration in your +ApplicationController+ class: +To assign a specific layout for the entire application, use a +layout+ declaration in your +ApplicationController+ class: <ruby> class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base end </ruby> -With this declaration, all views in the entire application will use +app/views/layouts/main.html.erb+ for their layout. +With this declaration, all of the views in the entire application will use +app/views/layouts/main.html.erb+ for their layout. h6. Choosing Layouts at Runtime @@ -392,9 +392,9 @@ class ProductsController < ApplicationController end </ruby> -Now, if the current user is a special user, they'll get a special layout when viewing a product. You can even use an inline method to determine the layout: +Now, if the current user is a special user, they'll get a special layout when viewing a product. -You can also decide the layout by passing a Proc object, the block you give the Proc will be given the +controller+ instance, so you can make decisions based on the current request. For example: +You can even use an inline method, such as a Proc, to determine the layout. For example, if you pass a Proc object, the block you give the Proc will be given the +controller+ instance, so the layout can be determined based on the current request: <ruby> class ProductsController < ApplicationController @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ end h6. Conditional Layouts -Layouts specified at the controller level support +:only+ and +:except+ options that take either a method name or an array of method names which correspond to method names within the controller: +Layouts specified at the controller level support the +:only+ and +:except+ options. These options take either a method name, or an array of method names, corresponding to method names within the controller: <ruby> class ProductsController < ApplicationController @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ With this declaration, the +product+ layout would be used for everything but the h6. Layout Inheritance -Layouts are shared downwards in the hierarchy, and more specific layouts always override more general ones. For example: +Layout declarations cascade downward in the hierarchy, and more specific layout declarations always override more general ones. For example: * +application_controller.rb+ @@ -495,9 +495,9 @@ def show end </ruby> -Make sure you use +and return+ and not +&& return+ because while the former will work, the latter will not due to operator precedence in the Ruby Language. +Make sure to use +and return+ and not +&& return+, since +&& return+ will not work due to the operator precedence in the Ruby Language. -Note that the implicit render done by ActionController detects if +render+ has been called, and thus avoids this error. Therefore, the following will work without errors: +Note that the implicit render done by ActionController detects if +render+ has been called, so the following will work without errors: <ruby> def show @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ Another way to handle returning responses to an HTTP request is with +redirect_t redirect_to photos_url </ruby> -You can use +redirect_to+ with any arguments that you could use with +link_to+ or +url_for+. In addition, there's a special redirect that sends the user back to the page they just came from: +You can use +redirect_to+ with any arguments that you could use with +link_to+ or +url_for+. There's also a special redirect that sends the user back to the page they just came from: <ruby> redirect_to :back @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ redirect_to :back h5. Getting a Different Redirect Status Code -Rails uses HTTP status code 302 (temporary redirect) when you call +redirect_to+. If you'd like to use a different status code (perhaps 301, permanent redirect), you can do so by using the +:status+ option: +Rails uses HTTP status code 302, a temporary redirect, when you call +redirect_to+. If you'd like to use a different status code, perhaps 301, a permanent redirect, you can use the +:status+ option: <ruby> redirect_to photos_path, :status => 301 @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Just like the +:status+ option for +render+, +:status+ for +redirect_to+ accepts h5. The Difference Between +render+ and +redirect_to+ -Sometimes inexperienced developers conceive of +redirect_to+ as a sort of +goto+ command, moving execution from one place to another in your Rails code. This is _not_ correct. Your code stops running and waits for a new request for the browser. It just happens that you've told the browser what request it should make next, by sending back an HTTP 302 status code. +Sometimes inexperienced developers think of +redirect_to+ as a sort of +goto+ command, moving execution from one place to another in your Rails code. This is _not_ correct. Your code stops running and waits for a new request for the browser. It just happens that you've told the browser what request it should make next, by sending back an HTTP 302 status code. Consider these actions to see the difference: @@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ def show end </ruby> -With the code in this form, there will likely be a problem if the +@book+ variable is +nil+. Remember, a +render :action+ doesn't run any code in the target action, so nothing will set up the +@books+ variable that the +index+ view is presumably depending on. One way to fix this is to redirect instead of rendering: +With the code in this form, there will likely be a problem if the +@book+ variable is +nil+. Remember, a +render :action+ doesn't run any code in the target action, so nothing will set up the +@books+ variable that the +index+ view will probably require. One way to fix this is to redirect instead of rendering: <ruby> def index @@ -570,9 +570,9 @@ end With this code, the browser will make a fresh request for the index page, the code in the +index+ method will run, and all will be well. -The only downside to this code, is that it requires a round trip to the browser, the browser requested the show action with +/books/1+ and the controller finds that there are no books, so the controller sends out a 302 redirect response to the browser telling it to go to +/books/+, the browser complies and sends a new request back to the controller asking now for the +index+ action, the controller then gets all the books in the database and renders the index template, sending it back down to the browser which then shows it on your screen. +The only downside to this code is that it requires a round trip to the browser: the browser requested the show action with +/books/1+ and the controller finds that there are no books, so the controller sends out a 302 redirect response to the browser telling it to go to +/books/+, the browser complies and sends a new request back to the controller asking now for the +index+ action, the controller then gets all the books in the database and renders the index template, sending it back down to the browser which then shows it on your screen. -While in a small app, this added latency might not be a problem, it is something to think about when speed of response is of the essence. One way to handle this double request (though a contrived example) could be: +While in a small application, this added latency might not be a problem, it is something to think about if response time is a concern. We can demonstrate one way to handle this with a contrived example: <ruby> def index @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ def show end </ruby> -Which would detect that there are no books, populate the +@books+ instance variable with all the books in the database and then directly render the +index.html.erb+ template returning it to the browser with a flash alert message telling the user what happened. +This would detect that there are no books with the specified ID, populate the +@books+ instance variable with all the books in the model, and then directly render the +index.html.erb+ template, returning it to the browser with a flash alert message to tell the user what happened. h4. Using +head+ To Build Header-Only Responses @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ The +head+ method can be used to send responses with only headers to the browser head :bad_request </ruby> -Which would produce the following header: +This would produce the following header: <shell> HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ Set-Cookie: _blog_session=...snip...; path=/; HttpOnly Cache-Control: no-cache </shell> -Or you can use other HTTP headers to convey additional information: +Or you can use other HTTP headers to convey other information: <ruby> head :created, :location => photo_path(@photo) @@ -633,15 +633,15 @@ Cache-Control: no-cache h3. Structuring Layouts -When Rails renders a view as a response, it does so by combining the view with the current layout (using the rules for finding the current layout that were covered earlier in this guide). Within a layout, you have access to three tools for combining different bits of output to form the overall response: +When Rails renders a view as a response, it does so by combining the view with the current layout, using the rules for finding the current layout that were covered earlier in this guide. Within a layout, you have access to three tools for combining different bits of output to form the overall response: * Asset tags * +yield+ and +content_for+ * Partials -h4. Asset Tags +h4. Asset Tag Helpers -Asset tags provide methods for generating HTML that links views to feeds, JavaScript, stylesheets, images, videos and audios. These are the six asset tags available in Rails: +Asset tag helpers provide methods for generating HTML that link views to feeds, JavaScript, stylesheets, images, videos and audios. There are six asset tag helpers available in Rails: * +auto_discovery_link_tag+ * +javascript_include_tag+ @@ -650,11 +650,11 @@ Asset tags provide methods for generating HTML that links views to feeds, JavaSc * +video_tag+ * +audio_tag+ -You can use these tags in layouts or other views, although the tags other than +image_tag+ are most commonly used in the +<head>+ section of a layout. +You can use these tags in layouts or other views, although the +auto_discovery_link_tag+, +javascript_include_tag+, and +stylesheet_link_tag+, are most commonly used in the +<head>+ section of a layout. -WARNING: The asset tags do _not_ verify the existence of the assets at the specified locations; they simply assume that you know what you're doing and generate the link. +WARNING: The asset tag helpers do _not_ verify the existence of the assets at the specified locations; they simply assume that you know what you're doing and generate the link. -h5. Linking to Feeds with +auto_discovery_link_tag+ +h5. Linking to Feeds with the +auto_discovery_link_tag+ The +auto_discovery_link_tag+ helper builds HTML that most browsers and newsreaders can use to detect the presences of RSS or ATOM feeds. It takes the type of the link (+:rss+ or +:atom+), a hash of options that are passed through to url_for, and a hash of options for the tag: @@ -663,13 +663,13 @@ The +auto_discovery_link_tag+ helper builds HTML that most browsers and newsread {:title => "RSS Feed"}) %> </erb> -There are three tag options available for +auto_discovery_link_tag+: +There are three tag options available for the +auto_discovery_link_tag+: -* +:rel+ specifies the +rel+ value in the link (defaults to "alternate") +* +:rel+ specifies the +rel+ value in the link. The default value is "alternate". * +:type+ specifies an explicit MIME type. Rails will generate an appropriate MIME type automatically. -* +:title+ specifies the title of the link +* +:title+ specifies the title of the link. The default value is the upshifted +:type+ value, for example, "ATOM" or "RSS". -h5. Linking to JavaScript Files with +javascript_include_tag+ +h5. Linking to JavaScript Files with the +javascript_include_tag+ The +javascript_include_tag+ helper returns an HTML +script+ tag for each source provided. Rails looks in +public/javascripts+ for these files by default, but you can specify a full path relative to the document root, or a URL, if you prefer. For example, to include +public/javascripts/main.js+: @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ By default, the combined file will be delivered as +javascripts/all.js+. You can You can even use dynamic paths such as +cache/#{current_site}/main/display+. -h5. Linking to CSS Files with +stylesheet_link_tag+ +h5. Linking to CSS Files with the +stylesheet_link_tag+ The +stylesheet_link_tag+ helper returns an HTML +<link>+ tag for each source provided. Rails looks in +public/stylesheets+ for these files by default, but you can specify a full path relative to the document root, or a URL, if you prefer. For example, to include +public/stylesheets/main.css+: @@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ To include +http://example.com/main.css+: <%= stylesheet_link_tag "http://example.com/main.css" %> </erb> -By default, +stylesheet_link_tag+ creates links with +media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"+. You can override any of these defaults by specifying an appropriate option (+:media+, +:rel+, or +:type+): +By default, the +stylesheet_link_tag+ creates links with +media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"+. You can override any of these defaults by specifying an appropriate option (+:media+, +:rel+, or +:type+): <erb> <%= stylesheet_link_tag "main_print", :media => "print" %> @@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ By default, the combined file will be delivered as +stylesheets/all.css+. You ca You can even use dynamic paths such as +cache/#{current_site}/main/display+. -h5. Linking to Images with +image_tag+ +h5. Linking to Images with the +image_tag+ The +image_tag+ helper builds an HTML +<img />+ tag to the specified file. By default, files are loaded from +public/images+. @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ In addition to the above special tags, you can supply a final hash of standard H :class => 'nav_bar' %> </erb> -h5. Linking to Videos with +video_tag+ +h5. Linking to Videos with the +video_tag+ The +video_tag+ helper builds an HTML 5 +<video>+ tag to the specified file. By default, files are loaded from +public/videos+. @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ This will produce: <video><source src="trailer.ogg" /><source src="movie.ogg" /></video> </erb> -h5. Linking to Audio files with +audio_tag+ +h5. Linking to Audio Files with the +audio_tag+ The +audio_tag+ helper builds an HTML 5 +<audio>+ tag to the specified file. By default, files are loaded from +public/audios+. @@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ You can also create a layout with multiple yielding regions: The main body of the view will always render into the unnamed +yield+. To render content into a named +yield+, you use the +content_for+ method. -h4. Using +content_for+ +h4. Using the +content_for+ Method The +content_for+ method allows you to insert content into a named +yield+ block in your layout. For example, this view would work with the layout that you just saw: diff --git a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile index 23e36b39f9..5b52a93853 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ In many ways this is exactly what it is. This file is created by inspecting the There is however a trade-off: +db/schema.rb+ cannot express database specific items such as foreign key constraints, triggers, or stored procedures. While in a migration you can execute custom SQL statements, the schema dumper cannot reconstitute those statements from the database. If you are using features like this, then you should set the schema format to +:sql+. -Instead of using Active Record's schema dumper, the database's structure will be dumped using a tool specific to the database (via the +db:structure:dump+ Rake task) into +db/#{Rails.env}_structure.sql+. For example, for the PostgreSQL RDBMS, the +pg_dump+ utility is used. For MySQL, this file will contain the output of +SHOW CREATE TABLE+ for the various tables. Loading these schemas is simply a question of executing the SQL statements they contain. By definition, this will create a perfect copy of the database's structure. Using the +:sql+ schema format will, however, prevent loading the schema into a RDBMS other than the one used to create it. +Instead of using Active Record's schema dumper, the database's structure will be dumped using a tool specific to the database (via the +db:structure:dump+ Rake task) into +db/structure.sql+. For example, for the PostgreSQL RDBMS, the +pg_dump+ utility is used. For MySQL, this file will contain the output of +SHOW CREATE TABLE+ for the various tables. Loading these schemas is simply a question of executing the SQL statements they contain. By definition, this will create a perfect copy of the database's structure. Using the +:sql+ schema format will, however, prevent loading the schema into a RDBMS other than the one used to create it. h4. Schema Dumps and Source Control diff --git a/railties/guides/source/performance_testing.textile b/railties/guides/source/performance_testing.textile index f3ea7e38bc..2440927542 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/performance_testing.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/performance_testing.textile @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ h4. Using Ruby-Prof on MRI and REE Add Ruby-Prof to your applications' Gemfile if you want to benchmark/profile under MRI or REE: <ruby> -gem 'ruby-prof', :path => 'git://github.com/wycats/ruby-prof.git' +gem 'ruby-prof', :git => 'git://github.com/wycats/ruby-prof.git' </ruby> Now run +bundle install+ and you're ready to go. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/rails_on_rack.textile b/railties/guides/source/rails_on_rack.textile index 57c03b54dc..d6cbd84b1f 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/rails_on_rack.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/rails_on_rack.textile @@ -166,8 +166,9 @@ Much of Action Controller's functionality is implemented as Middlewares. The fol |+Rack::Lock+|Sets <tt>env["rack.multithread"]</tt> flag to +true+ and wraps the application within a Mutex.| |+ActionController::Failsafe+|Returns HTTP Status +500+ to the client if an exception gets raised while dispatching.| |+ActiveRecord::QueryCache+|Enables the Active Record query cache.| -|+ActionController::Session::CookieStore+|Uses the cookie based session store.| -|+ActionController::Session::MemCacheStore+|Uses the memcached based session store.| +|+ActionDispatch::Session::CookieStore+|Uses the cookie based session store.| +|+ActionDispatch::Session::CacheStore+|Uses the Rails cache based session store.| +|+ActionDispatch::Session::MemCacheStore+|Uses the memcached based session store.| |+ActiveRecord::SessionStore+|Uses the database based session store.| |+Rack::MethodOverride+|Sets HTTP method based on +_method+ parameter or <tt>env["HTTP_X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE"]</tt>.| |+Rack::Head+|Discards the response body if the client sends a +HEAD+ request.| diff --git a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile index f281009fee..29c729592b 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ You can specify what Rails should route +"/"+ to with the +root+ method: root :to => 'pages#main' </ruby> -You should put the +root+ route at the end of the file. You also need to delete the +public/index.html+ file for the root route to take effect. +You should put the +root+ route at the top of the file, because it is the most popular route and should be matched first. You also need to delete the +public/index.html+ file for the root route to take effect. h3. Customizing Resourceful Routes diff --git a/railties/guides/source/security.textile b/railties/guides/source/security.textile index 8837e06de5..c2ef7bf9b5 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/security.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/security.textile @@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ This will also be a good idea, if you modify the structure of an object and old h4. Session Storage --- _Rails provides several storage mechanisms for the session hashes. The most important are SessionStore and CookieStore._ +-- _Rails provides several storage mechanisms for the session hashes. The most important are ActiveRecord::SessionStore and ActionDispatch::Session::CookieStore._ -There are a number of session storages, i.e. where Rails saves the session hash and session id. Most real-live applications choose SessionStore (or one of its derivatives) over file storage due to performance and maintenance reasons. SessionStore keeps the session id and hash in a database table and saves and retrieves the hash on every request. +There are a number of session storages, i.e. where Rails saves the session hash and session id. Most real-live applications choose ActiveRecord::SessionStore (or one of its derivatives) over file storage due to performance and maintenance reasons. ActiveRecord::SessionStore keeps the session id and hash in a database table and saves and retrieves the hash on every request. Rails 2 introduced a new default session storage, CookieStore. CookieStore saves the session hash directly in a cookie on the client-side. The server retrieves the session hash from the cookie and eliminates the need for a session id. That will greatly increase the speed of the application, but it is a controversial storage option and you have to think about the security implications of it: @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ h3. User Management -- _Almost every web application has to deal with authorization and authentication. Instead of rolling your own, it is advisable to use common plug-ins. But keep them up-to-date, too. A few additional precautions can make your application even more secure._ -There are some authorization and authentication plug-ins for Rails available. A good one saves only encrypted passwords, not plain-text passwords. The most popular plug-in is +restful_authentication+ which protects from session fixation, too. However, earlier versions allowed you to login without user name and password in certain circumstances. +There are a number of authentication plug-ins for Rails available. Good ones, such as the popular "devise":https://github.com/plataformatec/devise and "authlogic":https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic, store only encrypted passwords, not plain-text passwords. In Rails 3.1 you can use the built-in +has_secure_password+ method which has similar features. Every new user gets an activation code to activate his account when he gets an e-mail with a link in it. After activating the account, the activation_code columns will be set to NULL in the database. If someone requested an URL like these, he would be logged in as the first activated user found in the database (and chances are that this is the administrator): diff --git a/railties/guides/source/testing.textile b/railties/guides/source/testing.textile index 2341a3522c..5dbbe2c0f0 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/testing.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/testing.textile @@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ class UserControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase assert_difference 'ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size', +1 do post :invite_friend, :email => 'friend@example.com' end - invite_email = ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.first + invite_email = ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.last assert_equal "You have been invited by me@example.com", invite_email.subject assert_equal 'friend@example.com', invite_email.to[0] |