Here are the changes to make: 1. In app/views/people/index.html.erb, change "Listing people" to "My Class List" 2. Update the each loop to display first initial and last name: <% @people.each do |person| %> <td><%= person.first_name[0] %>. <%= person.last_name %></td> <% end %>

1. RUBY ON RAILS
AN INTRODUCTION TO RAILS 3

2. CREATING YOUR FIRST RAILS APP
rails new roster
This command generates code for
a new Rails web application
in a sub-directory called “roster”

3. THE APPLICATION DIRECTORY
• The whole rails app is in this one directory
• No hidden configuration files in system directories
• You will modify many of these files in the course of your development
• We're using sqlite so even the database is in this directory, but usually the
database is the only part of your application that lives somewhere else
• You can simple copy this directory to server to deploy the app
• You can delete the directory and its contents
if you want to throw it away and start over

4. RUNNING YOUR APP
cd roster
bundle
rails server

5. RAILS ENVIRONMENTS
By default, Rails is configured with 3 environments:
• development
• test
• production

6. RAILS ENVIRONMENTS

7. RAILS ENVIRONMENTS

8. RAILS ENVIRONMENTS
The environment can be specified with
RAILS_ENV as an environment variable
"development" by default.
In your code, you refer to Rails.env
(or RAILS_ENV in Rails 2)

9. CONFIG/DATABASE.YML

10. ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION
config/environments/
• development.rb
• production.rb
• test.rb

11. MODIFYING THE HOME PAGE
public/index.html
All files in the public directory
are static content.
Rails checks this directory
before executing any dynamic code.

12. MVC

13. LEARNING WITH SCAFFOLD
rails generate scaffold
person first_name:string last_name:string

14. NAMING CONVENTIONS

15. SCAFFOLD
Model
app/models/person.rb
db/migrate/20090611073227_create_people.rb
5 views
app/views/people/index.html.erb
app/views/people/show.html.erb
app/views/people/new.html.erb
app/views/people/edit.html.erb
app/views/people/_form.html.erb
Controller
app/controllers/people_controller.rb
route.rb: resources :people

16. MVC
Model: ActiveRecord
• Represents what is in the database
View: ActionView, erb
• Model rendered as HTML
Controller: ActionController
• Receives HTTP actions (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
• Decides what to do, typically rendering a view

17. VIEWS
<% @people.each do |person| %>
<tr>
<td><%= person.first_name %></td>
<td><%= person.last_name %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>

18. VIEW EXERCISE
On the main people page
a. Change “Listing people” to “My Class List”
b. List people with first initial and last name in one visual
column (e.g. W. Flintstone)