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Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2
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Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2

by Sam Ruby
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
12h 10m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Content preview from Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2

We cover:

  • Templates
  • Forms including fields and uploading files
  • Helpers
  • Layouts and partials

Chapter 22Action View

We’ve seen how the routing component determines which controller to use and how the controller chooses an action. We’ve seen how the controller and action between them decide what to render to the user. Normally, rendering takes place at the end of the action and involves a template. That’s what this chapter is all about. Action View encapsulates all the functionality needed to render templates, most commonly generating HTML, XML, or JavaScript back to the user. As its name suggests, Action View is the view part of our MVC trilogy.

In this chapter, we’ll start with templates, for which Rails provides a range of options. We will then ...

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