Setting Up a SqlResolver

This time, instead of using rails plugin to implement the desired functionality, we’ll develop the template-management system by building a Rails application called templater. Let’s create it using the command line:

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$ ​rails new templater​

Next, let’s define the model that will hold templates in the database using the Rails scaffold generator:

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$ ​rails generate scaffold SqlTemplate body:text path:string \​
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​ format:string locale:string handler:string partial:boolean​

The body attribute is a text column used to store the whole template; the path should store a string similar to a filesystem path (for instance, the index action under UsersController will have users/index as the path); ...

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