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  1. data/.gitignore +5 -3
  2. data/Gemfile +1 -0
  3. data/README.md +37 -45
  4. data/chili.gemspec +7 -0
  5. data/lib/chili/template.rb +19 -5
  6. data/lib/chili/version.rb +1 -1
  7. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/assets/images/chili_likes/.gitkeep +0 -0
  8. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/assets/javascripts/chili_likes/application.js +15 -0
  9. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/assets/stylesheets/chili_likes/application.css.scss +7 -0
  10. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/controllers/chili_likes/likes_controller.rb +14 -0
  11. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/models/chili_likes/like.rb +7 -0
  12. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/models/chili_likes/post.rb +9 -0
  13. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/models/chili_likes/user.rb +5 -0
  14. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/overrides/layouts/application/chili_likes.html.erb.deface +2 -0
  15. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/overrides/posts/_post/chili_likes.html.erb.deface +6 -0
  16. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/overrides/posts/index/chili_likes.html.erb.deface +2 -0
  17. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/app/views/chili_likes/likes/index.html.erb +9 -0
  18. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/config/routes.rb +4 -0
  19. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/db/migrate/20120513031021_create_chili_likes_likes.rb +10 -0
  20. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/lib/chili_likes.rb +7 -0
  21. data/spec/dummy/chili_likes/lib/chili_likes/engine.rb +10 -0
  22. data/spec/dummy/main_app/README.rdoc +261 -0
  23. data/spec/dummy/main_app/Rakefile +7 -0
  24. data/spec/dummy/main_app/app/assets/javascripts/application.js +2 -0
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  29. data/spec/dummy/main_app/app/controllers/application_controller.rb +11 -0
  30. data/spec/dummy/main_app/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb +83 -0
  31. data/spec/dummy/main_app/app/controllers/users_controller.rb +83 -0
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  33. data/spec/dummy/main_app/app/helpers/posts_helper.rb +2 -0
  34. data/spec/dummy/main_app/app/helpers/users_helper.rb +2 -0
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  37. data/spec/dummy/main_app/app/models/post.rb +3 -0
  38. data/spec/dummy/main_app/app/models/user.rb +3 -0
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  51. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config.ru +4 -0
  52. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/application.rb +57 -0
  53. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/boot.rb +11 -0
  54. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/database.yml +25 -0
  55. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/environment.rb +5 -0
  56. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/environments/development.rb +37 -0
  57. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/environments/production.rb +67 -0
  58. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/environments/test.rb +37 -0
  59. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb +7 -0
  60. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/initializers/inflections.rb +15 -0
  61. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/initializers/mime_types.rb +5 -0
  62. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/initializers/secret_token.rb +7 -0
  63. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/initializers/session_store.rb +8 -0
  64. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb +14 -0
  65. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/locales/en.yml +5 -0
  66. data/spec/dummy/main_app/config/routes.rb +6 -0
  67. data/spec/dummy/main_app/db/migrate/20120513023816_create_posts.rb +9 -0
  68. data/spec/dummy/main_app/db/migrate/20120513023840_create_users.rb +9 -0
  69. data/spec/dummy/main_app/db/migrate/20120513032032_create_chili_likes_likes.chili_likes.rb +11 -0
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  78. data/spec/lib/chili/activatable_spec.rb +21 -0
  79. data/spec/requests/chili_likes_spec.rb +28 -0
  80. data/spec/spec_helper.rb +27 -0
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data/.gitignore CHANGED
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data/Gemfile CHANGED
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  # Specify your gem's dependencies in chili.gemspec
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  gem 'rake'
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+ gem 'deface', git: 'git://github.com/railsdog/deface.git', branch: 'dsl'
data/README.md CHANGED
@@ -1,56 +1,35 @@
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  # Chili
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- The spicy extension framework
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+ Have you ever wanted to test out a new feature on only a subset of users?
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+ Did that implementation end up being lots of if/else statements embedded in the main code?
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+ If so, Chili can help.
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- ## Roadmap
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-
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- ### Core features
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+ Chili is built on top of Rails Engines and Deface and allows you to conditionally add new/modify existing views,
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+ while leaving the main code untouched.
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- Unobtrusively(!)...
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+ ## Installation
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- - add new models `done`
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- - add new tables/migrations `done`
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- - add new controllers and show/hide conditionally `done`
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- - add new views and show/hide conditionally `done`
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- - conditionally add to/edit existing views `done`
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- - add methods to existing models `done`
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- - add new stylesheets and javascripts `done`
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- - modify existing controller actions
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+ Install Chili on your system (not in your app!):
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- ### Obstacles
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+ gem install chili
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- - Deface caches overrides in production. Monkey patch?
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+ ## Usage
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- ### Minor niggles
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-
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- - Have to add gemspec to main app
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- - Can only have one override per engine per partial due to the way I'm grabbing the class from the override
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- - Need to use DSL branch from deface
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- - Have to restart server when adding overrides
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- - Request specs don't have access to path helpers
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-
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- ## Docs...
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+ Just like engines chili extensions are like mini apps that are created separately from the main app using the "chili" command.
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  ### Creating a new chili extension
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- Assuming you want to add a new extension that adds "like" capabilities to a subset of users, run:
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+ Assuming you want to add a new extension that adds exposes a new "like" button feature to a subset of users, first run:
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  chili likes
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- This is basically a shortcut for running the `rails plugin new` engine generator with a custom template.
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- The script will prompt you for the location of your main app repository to which you are adding the chili extension.
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- The repo will be added as a submodule in the main_app directory.
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-
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- ### Prepare main app
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+ This is basically a shortcut for running the `rails plugin new` engine generator with a custom template and will:
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- - make sure that shared views (f.ex layouts) uses `main_app.` prefix for routes
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- - add `gem 'deface', git: 'git://github.com/railsdog/deface.git', branch: 'dsl'` to Gemfile
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- - add `gemspec path: '../'` to Gemfile
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- - bundle
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- - set up database
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+ 1. Create a directory named chili_likes containing the basic structure for the extension
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+ 2. Clone the app you are adding the extension to as a submodule into chili_likes/main_app
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+ 3. Add a reference to the extensions gemspec to the main app gemfile for testing
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- ### Setting up activation conditions
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+ ### Define who can see the extension
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+ Chili uses deface to modify existing view templates (see [deface docs](https://github.com/railsdog/deface#readme) for details)
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+ Add an override with the same name as the extension. As an example, assuming the main app has the partial `app/views/posts/_post.html.erb`:
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- <% # app/overrides/posts/_post/chili_likes.html.erb.deface (folder should mimic main app view path) %>
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- <%= link_to 'Show likes', chili_likes.likes_path %>
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+ <% # app/overrides/posts/_post/chili_likes.html.erb.deface (folder should mirror main app view path) %>
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+ <!-- insert_bottom 'tr' -->
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+ <td><%= link_to 'Like!', chili_likes.likes_path(like: {post_id: post}), method: :post %></td>
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- and automounted in the main app at `/chili_likes/likes`, but only accessible when active_if is true.
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+ and automounted in the main app at `/chili_likes/likes`, but only accessible when active_if is true.
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- - Just like normal engines, Chili requires you to prepend path helpers with `main_app` (ie `main_app.root_path` etc) in view templates that are shared with the main app (such as the main app's application layout file).
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+ - Just like normal engines, Chili requires you to prepend path helpers with `main_app` (ie `main_app.root_path` etc) in view templates that are shared with the main app (such as the main app's application layout file).
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+ - Haven't found a good way to modify existing controller actions
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+ == Welcome to Rails
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+ 4. Follow the guidelines to start developing your application. You can find
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+ the following resources handy:
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+
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+ * The Getting Started Guide: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
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+ * Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book: http://www.railstutorial.org/
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+
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+
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+ == Debugging Rails
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+
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+ Sometimes your application goes wrong. Fortunately there are a lot of tools that
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+ will help you debug it and get it back on the rails.
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+ First area to check is the application log files. Have "tail -f" commands
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+ running on the server.log and development.log. Rails will automatically display
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+ debugging and runtime information to these files. Debugging info will also be
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+ shown in the browser on requests from 127.0.0.1.
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+ You can also log your own messages directly into the log file from your code
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+ using the Ruby logger class from inside your controllers. Example:
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+ class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
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+ def destroy
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+ @weblog = Weblog.find(params[:id])
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+ @weblog.destroy
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+ logger.info("#{Time.now} Destroyed Weblog ID ##{@weblog.id}!")
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+ end
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+ end
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+ The result will be a message in your log file along the lines of:
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+ Mon Oct 08 14:22:29 +1000 2007 Destroyed Weblog ID #1!
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+ More information on how to use the logger is at http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/
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+ Also, Ruby documentation can be found at http://www.ruby-lang.org/. There are
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+ several books available online as well:
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+
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+ * Programming Ruby: http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ (Pickaxe)
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+ * Learn to Program: http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ (a beginners guide)
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+ These two books will bring you up to speed on the Ruby language and also on
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+ programming in general.
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+
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+ == Debugger
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+ Debugger support is available through the debugger command when you start your
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+ Mongrel or WEBrick server with --debugger. This means that you can break out of
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+ execution at any point in the code, investigate and change the model, and then,
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+ resume execution! You need to install ruby-debug to run the server in debugging
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+ mode. With gems, use <tt>sudo gem install ruby-debug</tt>. Example:
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+
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+ class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
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+ def index
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+ @posts = Post.all
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+ debugger
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ So the controller will accept the action, run the first line, then present you
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+ with a IRB prompt in the server window. Here you can do things like:
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+
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+ >> @posts.inspect
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+ => "[#<Post:0x14a6be8
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+ @attributes={"title"=>nil, "body"=>nil, "id"=>"1"}>,
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+ #<Post:0x14a6620
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+ @attributes={"title"=>"Rails", "body"=>"Only ten..", "id"=>"2"}>]"
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+ >> @posts.first.title = "hello from a debugger"
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+ => "hello from a debugger"
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+
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+ ...and even better, you can examine how your runtime objects actually work:
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+
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+ >> f = @posts.first
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+ => #<Post:0x13630c4 @attributes={"title"=>nil, "body"=>nil, "id"=>"1"}>
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+ >> f.
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+ Display all 152 possibilities? (y or n)
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+ Finally, when you're ready to resume execution, you can enter "cont".
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+
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+ == Console
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+
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+ The console is a Ruby shell, which allows you to interact with your
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+ application's domain model. Here you'll have all parts of the application
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+ configured, just like it is when the application is running. You can inspect
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+ domain models, change values, and save to the database. Starting the script
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+ without arguments will launch it in the development environment.
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+ To start the console, run <tt>rails console</tt> from the application
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+ directory.
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+ Options:
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+ * Passing the <tt>-s, --sandbox</tt> argument will rollback any modifications
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+ made to the database.
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+ * Passing an environment name as an argument will load the corresponding
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+ environment. Example: <tt>rails console production</tt>.
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+ To reload your controllers and models after launching the console run
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+ <tt>reload!</tt>
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+ More information about irb can be found at:
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+ link:http://www.rubycentral.org/pickaxe/irb.html
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+
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+
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+ == dbconsole
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+ You can go to the command line of your database directly through <tt>rails
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+ dbconsole</tt>. You would be connected to the database with the credentials
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+ defined in database.yml. Starting the script without arguments will connect you
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+ to the development database. Passing an argument will connect you to a different
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+ database, like <tt>rails dbconsole production</tt>. Currently works for MySQL,
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+ PostgreSQL and SQLite 3.
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+
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+ == Description of Contents
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+
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+ The default directory structure of a generated Ruby on Rails application:
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+
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+ |-- app
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+ | |-- assets
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+ | |-- images
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+ | |-- javascripts
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+ | `-- stylesheets
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+ | |-- controllers
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+ | |-- helpers
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+ | |-- mailers
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+ | |-- models
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+ | `-- views
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+ | `-- layouts
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+ |-- config
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+ | |-- environments
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+ | |-- initializers
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+ | `-- locales
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+ |-- db
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+ |-- doc
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+ |-- lib
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+ | `-- tasks
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+ |-- log
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+ |-- public
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+ |-- script
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+ |-- test
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+ | |-- fixtures
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+ | |-- functional
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+ | |-- integration
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+ | |-- performance
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+ | `-- unit
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+ |-- tmp
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+ | |-- cache
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+ | |-- pids
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+ | |-- sessions
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+ | `-- sockets
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+ `-- vendor
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+ |-- assets
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+ `-- stylesheets
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+ `-- plugins
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+
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+ app
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+ Holds all the code that's specific to this particular application.
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+
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+ app/assets
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+ Contains subdirectories for images, stylesheets, and JavaScript files.
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+ app/controllers
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+ Holds controllers that should be named like weblogs_controller.rb for
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+ automated URL mapping. All controllers should descend from
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+ ApplicationController which itself descends from ActionController::Base.
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+ app/models
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+ Holds models that should be named like post.rb. Models descend from
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+ ActiveRecord::Base by default.
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+ app/views
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+ Holds the template files for the view that should be named like
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+ weblogs/index.html.erb for the WeblogsController#index action. All views use
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+ eRuby syntax by default.
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+ app/views/layouts
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+ Holds the template files for layouts to be used with views. This models the
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+ common header/footer method of wrapping views. In your views, define a layout
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+ using the <tt>layout :default</tt> and create a file named default.html.erb.
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+ Inside default.html.erb, call <% yield %> to render the view using this
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+ layout.
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+
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+ app/helpers
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+ Holds view helpers that should be named like weblogs_helper.rb. These are
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+ generated for you automatically when using generators for controllers.
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+ Helpers can be used to wrap functionality for your views into methods.
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+
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+ config
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+ Configuration files for the Rails environment, the routing map, the database,
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+ and other dependencies.
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+ db
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+ Contains the database schema in schema.rb. db/migrate contains all the
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+ sequence of Migrations for your schema.
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+
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+ doc
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+ This directory is where your application documentation will be stored when
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+ generated using <tt>rake doc:app</tt>
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+
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+ lib
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+ Application specific libraries. Basically, any kind of custom code that
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+ doesn't belong under controllers, models, or helpers. This directory is in
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+ the load path.
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+
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+ public
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+ The directory available for the web server. Also contains the dispatchers and the
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+ default HTML files. This should be set as the DOCUMENT_ROOT of your web
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+ server.
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+ script
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+ Helper scripts for automation and generation.
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+
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+ test
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+ Unit and functional tests along with fixtures. When using the rails generate
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+ command, template test files will be generated for you and placed in this
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+ directory.
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+
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+ vendor
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+ External libraries that the application depends on. Also includes the plugins
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+ subdirectory. If the app has frozen rails, those gems also go here, under
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+ vendor/rails/. This directory is in the load path.