jamesyang124

#!/bin/ruby --verion => 2.0.0-p353

Self

In Ruby, self is a special variable that always references the current object.

• Inside class or module definition, self refer to the Class or Module object.
• Inside instance method, self refer to future instance object.
• Inside class method, self refer to the class.i

maxim

In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

jcasimir

Render and Redirect

The normal controller/view flow is to display a view template corresponding to the current controller action, but sometimes we want to change that. We use render in a controller when we want to respond within the current request, and redirect_to when we want to spawn a new request.

Render

The render method is very overloaded in Rails. Most developers encounter it within the view template, using render :partial => 'form' or render @post.comments, but here we'll focus on usage within the controller.

:action