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- data/MIT-LICENSE +20 -0
- data/README.md +99 -0
- data/Rakefile +40 -0
- data/app/helpers/css_splitter/application_helper.rb +20 -0
- data/config/routes.rb +2 -0
- data/lib/css_splitter/engine.rb +15 -0
- data/lib/css_splitter/splitter.rb +112 -0
- data/lib/css_splitter/sprockets_engine.rb +23 -0
- data/lib/css_splitter/version.rb +3 -0
- data/lib/css_splitter.rb +6 -0
- data/lib/tasks/css_splitter_tasks.rake +4 -0
- data/test/css_splitter_test.rb +41 -0
- data/test/dummy/README.rdoc +261 -0
- data/test/dummy/Rakefile +7 -0
- data/test/dummy/app/assets/stylesheets/application.css +16 -0
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- data/test/dummy/app/assets/stylesheets/too_big_stylesheet_split2.css +3 -0
- data/test/dummy/app/controllers/application_controller.rb +3 -0
- data/test/dummy/app/controllers/tests_controller.rb +4 -0
- data/test/dummy/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb +17 -0
- data/test/dummy/app/views/tests/test.html.erb +12 -0
- data/test/dummy/config/application.rb +64 -0
- data/test/dummy/config/boot.rb +10 -0
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- data/test/dummy/script/rails +6 -0
- data/test/integration/navigation_test.rb +10 -0
- data/test/test_helper.rb +15 -0
- data/test/unit/helpers/css_splitter/application_helper_test.rb +22 -0
- data/test/unit/splitter_test.rb +192 -0
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Copyright 2012 Jakob Hilden
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
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NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
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LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
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OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
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WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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# CssSplitter [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/zweilove/css_splitter.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/zweilove/css_splitter)
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Gem for splitting up stylesheets that go beyond the IE limit of 4096 selectors, for Rails 3.1+ apps using the Asset Pipeline. You can read this [blogpost](http://railslove.com/blog/2013/03/08/overcoming-ies-4096-selector-limit-using-the-css-splitter-gem) for an explanation of this gem's background story.
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## Installation
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Install by putting `gem 'css_splitter'` into your Gemfile.
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## What it does?
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Older versions of Internet Explorer (version 9 and below) have a hard limit for the number of CSS selectors they can process, which is 4095. If one of your stylesheets exceeds this limit, all the rule sets beyond the 4095th selector will not be processed by IE and your app will miss some styling information.
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CssSplitter integrates with the Rails 3.1+ Asset Pipeline to generate additional split stylesheets with all the CSS rules beyond the 4095th that can be served to IE browsers in order to get all the styling information.
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## Dependencies
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* Sprockets 2.0+
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* e.g. Rails 3.1+ with the asset pipeline
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## Documentation
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### 1. Splitting your stylesheets
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The first step is identifying the stylesheets that have more than 4095 selectors and therefore need to be split for IE.
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Once you know which stylesheets need to be split, you need to create a second "container file" for those stylesheets with the `_split2` suffix appended to the base filename that will contain the styles beyond the 4095 selector limit. The extension of this file should be just `.css` without any additional preprocessor extensions.
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For example, if you want to split `too_big_stylesheet.css.scss`, you need to create a new file `too_big_stylesheet_split2.css` in the same directory. The only content of that container, will contain a `require` directive to the name of the original asset, e.g.:
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# app/assets/stylesheets/too_big_stylesheet_split2.css
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*= require 'too_big_stylesheet'
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*/
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If your stylesheet is big enough to need splitting into more than two more files, simply create additional `_split3`, `_split4`, etc. files, the contents of which should be identical to the `_split2` file.
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You also need to remember to add those new files to the asset pipeline, so they will be compiled. For example:
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# config/application.rb
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module MyApp
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config.assets.precompile += %w( too_big_stylesheet_split2.css )
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1. It needs to have the `_splitN` suffix appended to the original asset name, e.g. `original_stylesheet_split2` or `application_split2`
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2. It needs to have `.css` as a file extension.
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3. It needs to require the orginal stylesheet.
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4. It needs to be added to list of precompiled assets.
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### 2. Including your split stylesheets
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Now that you have split up your big stylesheets at the 4095 limit you need to change your HTML layout, so the split stylesheets are used for older IE versions (IE9 and older).
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You can just use our `split_stylesheet_link_tag` helper, which would look something like this:
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# app/views/layout/application.html.erb
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<%= split_stylesheet_link_tag "too_big_stylesheet", :media => "all" %>
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# output
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<link href="/stylesheets/too_big_stylesheet.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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<!--[if lte IE 9]>
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<link href="/stylesheets/too_big_stylesheet_split2.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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<![endif]-->
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If your stylesheet is split into more than two files, add the `split_count` option to specify the total number of files.
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<%= split_stylesheet_link_tag "too_big_stylesheet", :split_count => 3 %>
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Or you can just create similar HTML as in the above example yourself. If you want to use the `split_stylesheet_link_tag` helper you need to make sure the gem is loaded in production, so you can't put it in the `:assets` group in your Gemfile.
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## How it works
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Basically, CssSplitter is registering a new Sprockets bundle processor that looks for CSS assets named with the `_splitN` suffix and will fill those files with all the selectors beyond the 4095th. Unfortunately, those `_splitN` files need to be created manually, because we haven't figured out a way for a `Sprockets::Engine` to output multiple files. They need to present before the compile step.
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If you have more questions about how it works, look at the code or contact us.
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## Gotchas
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#### Differences from previous versions
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Note that if you used versions below `0.4.0` of this gem, the naming and contents of the split files have changed. Split files no longer need to have the `.split2` extension and now use the `require` directive rather than the `include` directive. The previous prohibition against using `require_tree .` and `require_self` directives also no longer applies. For more details see the [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md#040)
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## Credits & License
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This is a joint project by the two German Rails shops [Zweitag](http://zweitag.de) and [Railslove](http://railslove.com), therefore the GitHub name "Zweilove".
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The original code was written by [Christian Peters](mailto:christian.peters@zweitag.de) and [Thomas Hollstegge](mailto:thomas.hollstegge@zweitag.de) (see this [Gist](https://gist.github.com/2398394)) and turned into a gem by [Jakob Hilden](mailto:jakobhilden@gmail.com).
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**Major Contributors**
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* [@Umofomia](https://github.com/Umofomia)
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This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.
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#!/usr/bin/env rake
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begin
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rescue LoadError
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puts 'You must `gem install bundler` and `bundle install` to run rake tasks'
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require 'rake/rdoctask'
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RDoc::Task = Rake::RDocTask
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end
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RDoc::Task.new(:rdoc) do |rdoc|
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rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'rdoc'
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rdoc.title = 'CssSplitter'
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rdoc.options << '--line-numbers'
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rdoc.rdoc_files.include('README.rdoc')
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rdoc.rdoc_files.include('lib/**/*.rb')
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end
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APP_RAKEFILE = File.expand_path("../test/dummy/Rakefile", __FILE__)
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load 'rails/tasks/engine.rake'
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Bundler::GemHelper.install_tasks
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Rake::TestTask.new(:test) do |t|
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t.libs << 'lib'
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module CssSplitter
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module ApplicationHelper
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def split_stylesheet_link_tag(*sources)
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options = sources.extract_options!
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split_count = options.delete(:split_count) || 2
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sources.map do |source|
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split_sources = (2..split_count).map { |index| "#{source}_split#{index}" }
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split_sources << options
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[
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stylesheet_link_tag(source, options),
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"<!--[if lte IE 9]>",
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stylesheet_link_tag(*split_sources),
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"<![endif]-->"
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end.flatten.join("\n").html_safe
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module CssSplitter
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class Engine < ::Rails::Engine
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isolate_namespace CssSplitter
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initializer 'css_splitter.sprockets_engine', after: 'sprockets.environment', group: :all do |app|
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app.assets.register_bundle_processor 'text/css', CssSplitter::SprocketsEngine
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initializer 'css_splitter.action_controller' do |app|
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helper CssSplitter::ApplicationHelper
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module CssSplitter
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class Splitter
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MAX_SELECTORS_DEFAULT = 4095
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# returns the specified split of the passed css_string
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def self.split_string(css_string, split = 1, max_selectors = MAX_SELECTORS_DEFAULT)
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rules = split_string_into_rules(css_string)
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extract_part rules, split, max_selectors
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end
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# splits string into array of rules (also strips comments)
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def self.split_string_into_rules(css_string)
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strip_comments(css_string).chomp.scan /[^}]*}/
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charset_statement, rules[0] = extract_charset(rules.first)
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selector_range = max_selectors * (part - 1) + 1 .. max_selectors * part # e.g (4096..8190)
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current_media = nil
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def self.count_selectors_of_rule(rule)
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parts = strip_comments(rule).partition(/\{/)
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def self.count_selectors(css_file)
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debugging and runtime information to these files. Debugging info will also be
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several books available online as well:
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* Programming Ruby: http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ (Pickaxe)
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programming in general.
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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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#<Post:0x14a6620
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@attributes={"title"=>"Rails", "body"=>"Only ten..", "id"=>"2"}>]"
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=> "hello from a debugger"
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Display all 152 possibilities? (y or n)
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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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defined in database.yml. Starting the script without arguments will connect you
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|
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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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automated URL mapping. All controllers should descend from
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ApplicationController which itself descends from ActionController::Base.
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ActiveRecord::Base by default.
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|
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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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|
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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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|
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layout.
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generated for you automatically when using generators for controllers.
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and other dependencies.
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|
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sequence of Migrations for your schema.
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|
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generated using <tt>rake doc:app</tt>
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|
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|
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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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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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command, template test files will be generated for you and placed in this
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directory.
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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.
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#!/usr/bin/env rake
|
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|
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# for example lib/tasks/capistrano.rake, and they will automatically be available to Rake.
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|
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|
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