Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2

Action Pack: The View and Controller

When you think about it, the view and controller parts of MVC are pretty intimate. The controller supplies data to the view, and the controller receives events from the pages generated by the views. Because of these interactions, support for views and controllers in Rails is bundled into a single component, Action Pack.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that your application’s view code and controller code will be jumbled up because Action Pack is a single component. Quite the contrary—Rails gives you the separation you need to write web applications with clearly demarcated code for control and presentation logic.

View Support

In Rails, the view is responsible for creating all or part of a response to be displayed ...