Index

Abstraction, 311

cut-and-paste, 162–163, 178

for DRY, 30

Abstraction layers, 164–165

accept method

Friendship, 417–418

FriendshipController, 432

accept_one_side method, 418

Accepted friendships, 412

Access protection for pages

smart way, 152–154

stupid way, 150–151

testing, 155

ACID properties, 64

Action caching, 510

Action Mailer package, 389

configuration, 390–391

linking and delivering reminders, 392–395

password reminders, 391–392

testing reminders, 396–399

ActionController class, 77

Active Record

avatars, 366, 378

console tool, 52–53

element access, 185, 291

fixtures, 306–308

friendships, 415, 418

searches, 309–311

sessions, 132–133

spec, 282

user model, 52

user specs, 265, 268

ActiveRecordStore method, 132

acts_as_ferret plugin, ...

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