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+ Copyright 2012 YOURNAME
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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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+ SMURF
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+ =====
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+ **S**calable, **M**odular, re**U**sable **R**ails **F**rontends
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+ ![SMURF](https://github.com/railslove/smurf/raw/master/app/assets/images/smurf/smurf.png)
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+ [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/railslove/smurf.png?branch=master)](http://travis-ci.org/railslove/smurf)
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+ The name and the philosophy of SMURF are heavily influenced by the [SMACSS](http://smacss.com) approach by Jonathan Snook ([@snookca](https://twitter.com/snookca)) which stands for Scalable Modular Architecture for CSS.
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+
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+
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+ # SMURF Philosophy
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+
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+ These are the main goals behind SMURF:
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+
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+ ## Goal 1: Conventions
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+ Analog to what [SMACSS](http://smacss.com) does for modular CSS we want to establish conventions for naming, structure, filenames of all modular frontend code. There should be a specific partial, helper or similar for each frontend module and it should be immediately clear how it needs to be named and where the files should be put.
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+
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+ This goal is achieved when it is completely clear where all the necessary parts of a frontend modul are located.
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+
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+
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+ ## Goal 2: Living Styleguide
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+
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+ Based on the conventions from Goal 1 we are creating tools that parse our Rails projects and render anything that makes sense into a living styleguide. This would include an overview of all the modules with their different submodules and states and hopefully also some JS interactions. The two goals behind this would be **a)** to have a tool for something like **"visual unit testing"** and **b)** to have a **communication device** for any kind of **design work** within a project.
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+ As a first step our SMURF gem can already render a living stylguide of all the color variables in your Sass code.
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+ An example for a similar tool could be [kss-rails](https://github.com/dewski/kss-rails)
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+ ## Goal 3: Developing modules in the browser
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+ Once we have a tool to easily render all our modules the next step is to add the ability to write/change/tweak them right within the browser. This would have the advantage that you could open the module editor in different browsers to directly account for x-browser differences and you don't have to hit reload again to see the effect of your changes to the frontend code. One could see it as an equivalent for vim+tmux+autotest for frontend development.
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+ (technology ideas: [voyage-editor](http://voyage-editor.herokuapp.com/), [cloud9](http://c9.io), [fivetastic](https://github.com/makevoid/fivetastic))
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+
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+
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+ # SMURF Gem
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+ Currently the gem can parse your Sass files and display all the color variables your are using in a nice styleguide.
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+ ## Prerequisites
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+ * Rails >3.1
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+ * Sass
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+ * Haml
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+
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+ ## Installation
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+
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+ Add this to your `Gemfile`, run `bundle install`:
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+ gem 'smurf-rails'
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+ Add an initializer to your Rails project in which you tell SMURF where it can find your Sass files:
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+ # config/initializers/smurf.rb
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+ Smurf.sass_directory = Rails.root.join('app', 'assets', 'stylesheets').to_s
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+
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+ Mount the SMURF gem in your routes:
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+ # config/routes.rb
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+ mount Smurf::Engine => "/smurf"
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+ Restart your server and you should be able to access the SMURF pages, e.g. `yourapp.com/smurf/styleguide/colors`
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+ #!/usr/bin/env rake
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+ begin
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+ require 'bundler/setup'
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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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+ end
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+ begin
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+ require 'rdoc/task'
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+ rescue LoadError
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+ require 'rdoc/rdoc'
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+ require 'rake/rdoctask'
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+ RDoc::Task = Rake::RDocTask
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+ end
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+
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+ RDoc::Task.new(:rdoc) do |rdoc|
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+ rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'rdoc'
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+ rdoc.title = 'Smurf'
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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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+
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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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+
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+
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+
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+ Bundler::GemHelper.install_tasks
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+
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+ require 'rake/testtask'
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+
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+ Rake::TestTask.new(:test) do |t|
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+ t.libs << 'lib'
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+ t.libs << 'test'
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+ t.pattern = 'test/**/*_test.rb'
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+ t.verbose = false
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+ end
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+
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+
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+ task :default => :test
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+
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+ # task :testing do
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+ # parser = Smurf::TypographyParser.new
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+ # parser.parse "/home/jk/projects/smurf/test/unit/sass/typography.sass"
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+ # puts parser.typographies.inspect
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+ # end
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+ //= require jquery
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+ //= require_self
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+
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+ $border-color: silver
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+ $padding: 10px
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+
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+ html, body, ul, li, p
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+ font-family: sans-serif
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+ font-size: 13px
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+
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+ strong
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+ font-weight: bold
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+
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+ .smurf-color-list
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+ padding: 0
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+ > li
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+ list-style-type: none
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+ float: left
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+ width: 300px
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+ min-height: 80px
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+ border: 1px solid $border-color
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+ padding: $padding
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+ margin: $padding
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+ > ul
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+ padding: 0
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+
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+ .smurf-color-var
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+ list-style-type: none
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+ overflow: hidden
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+ margin-bottom: $padding
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+ > .smurf-color-var--name
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+ float: left
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+ > .smurf-color-var--mappings
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+ padding: 0
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+ float: right
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+ > li
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+ text-align: right
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+ list-style-type: none
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+ module Smurf
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+ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
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+ end
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+ end
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+ module Smurf
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+ class StyleguideController < ApplicationController
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+ def colors
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+ @parser = Smurf::ColorVariableParser.new
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+ @parser.parse
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+ end
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+
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+ def partials
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+ end
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+
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+ def helper
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+ end
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+ def typography
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+ # @parser = Smurf::TypographyParser.new
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+ # @parser.parse
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ module Smurf
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+ module ApplicationHelper
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+ end
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+ end
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+ require "color/css"
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+ module Smurf
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+ module StyleguideHelper
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+ # returns well readable, high-contrast foreground color ("black" or "white") based on passed background_color
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+ def foreground_color(background_color)
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+ if color = Smurf::ColorVariableParser.parse_color(background_color)
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+ return "black" if color.brightness > 0.5
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+ end
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+ return "white"
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ <!DOCTYPE html>
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+ <html>
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+ <head>
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+ <title>Smurf</title>
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+ <%= stylesheet_link_tag "smurf/application", :media => "all" %>
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+ <%= javascript_include_tag "smurf/application" %>
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+ <%= csrf_meta_tags %>
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+ </head>
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+ <body>
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+ <%= yield %>
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+ </body>
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+ </html>
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+ %li.smurf-color-var
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+ .smurf-color-var--name
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+ %strong= color_var
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+ %small= "(#{@parser.print_variable_usage_count_for(color_var)})"
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+
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+ -if @parser.variable_mappings[color_var]
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+ %ul.smurf-color-var--mappings
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+ -@parser.variable_mappings[color_var].each do |color_mapping|
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+ %li
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+ = color_mapping
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+ %small= "(#{@parser.print_variable_usage_count_for(color_mapping)})"
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+ -if @parser
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+ %ul.smurf-color-list
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+ -@parser.colors.each do |color|
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+ -color_value = color[0]
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+ -color_vars = color[1]
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+ %li{style: "background-color: #{color[0]}; color: #{foreground_color(color[0])}"}
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+ .smurf-html-color= color[0]
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+ %ul
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+ -color_vars.each do |color_var|
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+ = render partial: "color_var", locals: {color_var: color_var}
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+ :sass
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+ @import "typography"
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+ +default-text()
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+ root :to => "styleguide#colors"
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+ match "styleguide/colors" => "styleguide#colors"
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+ match "styleguide/typography" => "styleguide#typography"
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+ end
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+ require "smurf/engine"
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+ require "smurf/color_variable_parser"
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+ #require "smurf/typography_parser"
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+ module Smurf
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+ mattr_accessor :sass_directory, :typography_sass_file
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+ end
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+ require "color/css"
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+ require "sass"
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+ module Smurf
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+ class ColorVariableParser
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+ attr_accessor :colors, :variable_mappings, :variable_usage, :sass_directory
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+ def initialize(sass_directory = Smurf.sass_directory)
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+ @colors = {}
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+ @variable_mappings = {}
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+ @variable_usage = {}
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+ @sass_directory = sass_directory
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+ end
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+ def parse_sass_directory(directory = sass_directory)
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+ Dir.glob("#{directory}/**/*").each do |file|
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+ if file.end_with?(".sass", ".scss")
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+ parse_sass_file(file)
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+ parse_variable_usage(file)
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ alias_method :parse, :parse_sass_directory
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+
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+ # parses Sass file and returns hash with colors and variable_mappings (or false)
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+ def parse_sass_file(file, options = {})
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+ Sass::Engine.for_file(file, options).to_tree.children.each do | node |
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+ if node.kind_of? Sass::Tree::VariableNode
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+ variable_node_parts = node.to_scss.split(":")
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+ variable_name = variable_node_parts[0]
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+ value = variable_node_parts[1].gsub(";", "").strip
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+ if color = Smurf::ColorVariableParser.parse_color(value)
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+ (self.colors[color.html] ||= []) << variable_name
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+ elsif value.start_with? "$"
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+ (self.variable_mappings[value] ||= []) << variable_name
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+
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ def parse_variable_usage(file)
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+ grep_output = `grep -iG "\$" #{file}`
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+ grep_output.each_line do |line|
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+ matches = line.scan(/\$[\w-]*/)
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+ matches.each do |match|
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+ self.variable_usage[match] ||= 0
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+ self.variable_usage[match] += 1
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ def print_variable_usage_count_for(color)
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+ self.variable_usage[color] - 1 rescue 0
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+ end
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+ def self.parse_color(color)
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+ return false unless color.is_a? String
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+
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+ if color.include? "#"
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+ Color::RGB.from_html(color) rescue false
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+ elsif Color::CSS[color]
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+ Color::CSS[color]
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+ else
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+ false
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ module Smurf
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+ class Engine < ::Rails::Engine
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+ isolate_namespace Smurf
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+ end
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+ end
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+ require "sass"
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+ module Smurf
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+ class TypographyParser
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+ attr_accessor :typographies, :typography_sass_file
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+ def initialize(typography_sass_file = Smurf.typography_sass_file)
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+ @typographies = {}
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+ @typography_sass_file = typography_sass_file
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+ end
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+ def parse(options = {})
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+ sass_tree = Sass::Engine.for_file(self.typography_sass_file, options).to_tree
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+ sass_tree.children.each do | node |
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+ if node.kind_of?(Sass::Tree::CommentNode) && is_typography_comment?(node)
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+ parsed_comment = YAML.load node.value.join.gsub!("// ", "")
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+ self.typographies[parsed_comment["styleguide_typography"]["mixin"]] = parsed_comment["styleguide_typography"]["params"]
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ private
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+ def is_typography_comment?(comment_node)
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+ comment_node.value.any? { |comment| comment.index("styleguide_typography") }
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ module Smurf
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+ VERSION = "0.0.3"
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+ end
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+ # desc "Explaining what the task does"
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+ # task :smurf do
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+ # # Task goes here
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+ # end
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+ == Welcome to Rails
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+ Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create
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+ database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
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+ This pattern splits the view (also called the presentation) into "dumb"
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+ templates that are primarily responsible for inserting pre-built data in between
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+ HTML tags. The model contains the "smart" domain objects (such as Account,
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+ Product, Person, Post) that holds all the business logic and knows how to
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+ persist themselves to a database. The controller handles the incoming requests
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+ (such as Save New Account, Update Product, Show Post) by manipulating the model
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+ and directing data to the view.
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+ In Rails, the model is handled by what's called an object-relational mapping
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+ layer entitled Active Record. This layer allows you to present the data from
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+ database rows as objects and embellish these data objects with business logic
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+ methods. You can read more about Active Record in
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+ link:files/vendor/rails/activerecord/README.html.
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+
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+ The controller and view are handled by the Action Pack, which handles both
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+ layers by its two parts: Action View and Action Controller. These two layers
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+ are bundled in a single package due to their heavy interdependence. This is
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+ unlike the relationship between the Active Record and Action Pack that is much
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+ more separate. Each of these packages can be used independently outside of
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+ Rails. You can read more about Action Pack in
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+ link:files/vendor/rails/actionpack/README.html.
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+
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+
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+ == Getting Started
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+
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+ 1. At the command prompt, create a new Rails application:
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+ <tt>rails new myapp</tt> (where <tt>myapp</tt> is the application name)
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+
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+ 2. Change directory to <tt>myapp</tt> and start the web server:
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+ <tt>cd myapp; rails server</tt> (run with --help for options)
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+
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+ 3. Go to http://localhost:3000/ and you'll see:
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+ "Welcome aboard: You're riding Ruby on Rails!"
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ Mon Oct 08 14:22:29 +1000 2007 Destroyed Weblog ID #1!
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+
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+ More information on how to use the logger is at http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ == Debugger
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+
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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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+
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+ Finally, when you're ready to resume execution, you can enter "cont".
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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.