RAILS RESOURCES

wherethingsgo.md

VIEW

• attaches to controller through yield
• attaches to helper form action:/search
• avoid calling controller methods in the view
  • should never tell controller to do something in order for view to render something else

CONTROLLER

• instance variable
• connects to view through actions
• creates instances of the model/finds models
• API calls

HELPER

• forms used across the app
• captures info use to controller
• random methods

RAILS

• form
• link
• convert

ROUTES

• attaches to controller and calls to outside (APIS) through method

MODEL

• contains data
• only place that knows where data exists
• provides object oriented view of relationship of data to data base
• methods in model store data and are based on the data inside
• mess with model all day long as long as you don't break the interface
• random methods that rely on model data

PUBLIC

• used names that let others know what you are doing
• only necessary parts

PRIVATE

• things that you don't want outside world to see