Chapter 7. Advanced Action Pack

Now that you have a very good understanding of how the components of Action Pack work, it's time to dig a little deeper. You start by generating the user controller from scratch, writing its actions, and creating its templates. Then, you add some functionality to the blog application: you allow users to leave comments when reading an article and make sure only logged-in users have access to adding and editing content. Finally, you give your application some styling so it looks better and more like a real application.

Note

If you need to get the code at the exact point where you finished Chapter 6, download the zip file from http://github.com/downloads/ccjr/blog/chapter07.zip and extract it on your computer.

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