April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
479 pages
12h 55m
English
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Chapter 9. Rendering the User Interface with ActionView
After researching the market, Ruby on Rails stood out as the best choice. We have been very happy with that decision. We will continue building on Rails and consider it a key business advantage.
—Evan Williams, Creator of Blogger, ODEO and Twitter
The previous chapter analyzed the controller's role in a Rails application. For each request that comes in, a proper response is formulated, often by combining the data retrieved from the model layer with a template in the view layer. The functionalities provided by the view are all incorporated in the ActionView framework which, along with ActionController, forms ActionPack.