Static Pages

Logistics

• More spots in Upper Division Enrollment
• Auditors as long as there are open seats
• 1 Homework, 2 Projects
• Piazza Page - http://bit.ly/railspiazza

Static

• Content
• Presentation
• Interaction

MVC

HTTP Requests

• Client makes a request to Server
• The four HTTP request we are going to focus on in this class are: GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE
• Today we focus on GET

routes.rb

• Our Dispatcher in the MVC diagram
• Found in config folder               
• Takes request from the client and figures out which controller function to call

Routes Syntax

• get '/name', to: 'controller#function'
• To make a page a root directory:
• root 'controller#function'

Controllers

• Takes dispatch from routes.rb
• Gets information from the database and models
• Performs logic needed before rendering view
• For static pages we can simply have an empty function

Views

• Presents the content of the webpage
• HTML
• CSS
• Embedded Ruby
• Finds resources in app/assets folder

Embedded Ruby

• <% ruby code %>

• <%= ruby code and substitution %>

Linking within Pages

• get '/path', to: 'controller#function', as: '{path_name}'
• Creates a path which can by called by using {path_name}_path
• Path can be used to link pages in the ERB of the View using link_to
• Root path can be referenced by root_path

Questions?

Live Coding

Work Time

• git clone https://github.com/rails-decal/week-3-lab
• Follow lab1.txt