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An open journal-- some of it written for you, but most of it is for me.

Agile Web Development With Rails

  • ORM libraries map database tables to classes, rows to objects, and columns to attributes of those objects.
  • Class methods are used to perform table-level operations
  • Instance methods are used to perform operations on individual rows.
  • Modules server two purposes
    • namespace: letting you define methods whose names will not clash with those defined elsewhere
    • And they allow you to share functionality between classes
  • a ||= b
a operation= b is the same as a = a operation b
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count += 1
#same as
count = count + 1

price *= discount
#same as
price = price * discount

count ||= 0
#same as
count = count || 0
  • lambda
  • numericality
  • catalog display is really just a glorified product listing.
  • every time a request comes in, we can recover the identity from the session and use it to find the cart in the database
  • dependent: :destroy -> indicates that the existence of line items is dependent on the existence of the cart
  • if a table has foreign keys, the corresponding model should have a belongs_to for each.
  • the default HTTP method for a link is a get, the default HTTP method for a button is a post.
  • @cart.line_items.build -> this causes a new line item relationship to be built between the @cart object and the product. You can build the relationship from either end.
  • Rails matches on is add_XXX_to_TABLE and remove_XXX_from_TABLE where the value XXX is ignored; what matters is the list of the column names and the types that appear after the migration name.
  • link_to_unless_current
  • if @person is just an empty object structure, form_form will work on the assumption that this is to create a new object. If @person actually contains data, however, form_for will assume that its form is editing that object and create a different looking form element, a hidden field to enable Rails’ REST capabilities.
  • helpers are simply modules containing methods that assist a view.
  • link_to and link_to_if take a condition parameter
  • a flash is a bucket (actually closer to a hash) in which you can store stuff as you process a request.
  • you can pass parameters to a partial, so that the partial can render different results.

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