From ee4e7125a61c703332a8d591a0aee917ba828e62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oscar Del Ben Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:43:10 +0200 Subject: Add partials section to getting started guide --- guides/source/getting_started.textile | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 101 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'guides/source') diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.textile b/guides/source/getting_started.textile index 88d5ce6d9b..fae12f825d 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.textile +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.textile @@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ Moving on, we need to add the +update+ action. The file +config/routes.rb+ will need just one more line: -put "posts/:id/update" +put "posts/:id" => "posts#update" And the +update+ action in +posts_controller+ itself should not look too complicated by now: @@ -930,6 +930,106 @@ Our +edit+ action looks very similar to the +new+ action, in fact they both share the same code for displaying the form. Lets clean them up by using a +_form+ partial. +Create a new file +app/views/posts/_form.html.erb+ with the following +content: + + +<%= form_for @post do |f| %> + <% if @post.errors.any? %> +
+

<%= pluralize(@post.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited + this post from being saved:

+
    + <% @post.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %> +
  • <%= msg %>
  • + <% end %> +
+
+ <% end %> +

+ <%= f.label :title %>
+ <%= f.text_field :title %> +

+ +

+ <%= f.label :text %>
+ <%= f.text_area :text %> +

+ +

+ <%= f.submit %> +

+<% end %> +
+ +Everything except for the +form_for+ declaration remained the same. I'll +explain later how +form_for+ can figure out the right +action+ and ++method+ attributes when building the form, for now let's update the ++new+ and +edit+ views: + + +# app/views/posts/new.html.erb + +

New post

+ +<%= render 'form' %> + +<%= link_to 'Back', :action => :index %> + + +# app/views/posts/edit.html.erb + +

Edit post

+ +<%= render 'form' %> + +<%= link_to 'Back', :action => :index %> +
+ +Point your browser to +"http://localhost:3000/posts/new":http://localhost:3000/posts/new and +try creating a new post. Everything still works. Now try editing the +post and you'll receive the following error: + +!images/getting_started/undefined_method_post_path.png(Undefined method +post_path)! + +To understand this error, you need to understand how +form_for+ works. +When you pass an object to +form_for+ and you don't specify a +:url+ +option, Rails will try to guess the +action+ and +method+ options by +checking if the passed object is a new record or not. Rails follows the +REST convention, so to create a new +Post+ object it will look for a +route named +posts_path+, and to update a +Post+ object it will look for +a route named +post_path+ and pass the current object. Similarly, rails +knows that it should create new objects via POST and update them via +PUT. + +If you run +rake routes+ from the console you'll see that we already +have a +posts_path+ route, which was created automatically by Rails. +However, we don't have a +post_path+ yet, which is the reason why we +received an error before. + + +# rake routes + + posts GET /posts(.:format) posts#index + posts_new GET /posts/new(.:format) posts#new +posts_create POST /posts/create(.:format) posts#create + GET /posts/:id(.:format) posts#show + GET /posts/:id/edit(.:format) posts#edit + PUT /posts/:id(.:format) posts#update + root / welcome#index + + +To fix this, open +config/routes.rb+ and modify the +get "posts/:id"+ +line like this: + + +get "posts/:id" => "posts#show", :as => :post + + +Now you'll be able to update posts again. + h4. Using the Console To see your validations in action, you can use the console. The console is a -- cgit v1.2.3 From 7f04235e523253bcf0a7d58d9f9bb61313a83337 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Strocel Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:01:59 -0700 Subject: Copy Edit --- guides/source/generators.textile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'guides/source') diff --git a/guides/source/generators.textile b/guides/source/generators.textile index e9d713d91d..2e9ab0526d 100644 --- a/guides/source/generators.textile +++ b/guides/source/generators.textile @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ Replaces text inside a file. gsub_file 'name_of_file.rb', 'method.to_be_replaced', 'method.the_replacing_code' - Regular Expressions can be used to make this method more precise. You can also use append_file and prepend_file in the same way to place code at the beginning and end of a file respectively. -- cgit v1.2.3