Create A New Rails App With A Static Home Page
Requirements to advance
- You should have a new rails app with with a static home page that's under your control. Make sure the controller for this page is called HomeController.
- You, the developer, should explain to a teacher, TA, or fellow student how Rails knows to render the home view.
Discussion Items
- In order to have a static home page, you will need a route, a controller, a view. Discuss!
- Seriously. If you don't discuss this stuff, things will be SO much harder.
- Generators! Rails has lots of them. Try exploring the output of
rails generate.- We’re not using
rails generate scaffoldin this curriculum. Because you will generate all your Models, Views and Controllers yourself, this will force you, to do more understanding-building brain work. The teacher/TAs can perhaps comment on what they would do in the real world and their thoughts on the excellence of this choice for learning-purposes.- What do you need to add to your home controller (after you've made it) to have a static home page?
- How does the home/index.html.erb view file relate to the layouts/application.html.erb view file?
- What’s the significance of yield in the application view?
- What does the home controller do?
Tools and References
- RailsGuides - Setting the Application Home Page: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#setting-the-application-home-page.
- RailsGuides - controllers overview: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html.
Hints
- If you have no idea what to put in your home controller, maybe try looking back at a past-Railsbridge app? Or another rails app you have lying about?
Next Step:
Go on to Install Devise