class UsersController < ApplicationController resource_description do name 'Members' short 'Site members' path '/users' version '1.0 - 3.4.2012' param :id, Fixnum, :desc => "User ID", :required => true description <<-EOS == Long description Example resource for rest api documentation These can now be accessed in shared/header with: Headline: <%= headline %> First name: <%= person.first_name %> If you need to find out whether a certain local variable has been assigned a value in a particular render call, you need to use the following pattern: <% if local_assigns.has_key? :headline %> Headline: <%= headline %> <% end %> Testing using defined? headline will not work. This is an implementation restriction. === Template caching By default, Rails will compile each template to a method in order to render it. When you alter a template, Rails will check the file's modification time and recompile it in development mode. EOS end api :short => "Show user profile", :path => "/users/:id", :method => "GET" error :code => 401, :desc => "Unauthorized" error :code => 404, :desc => "Not Found" param :id, Fixnum, :desc => "user id", :required => true param :id, Integer, :desc => "user id", :required => true param :session, String, :desc => "user is logged in", :required => true param :float_param, Float, :desc => "float param" param :regexp_param, /^[0-9]* years/, :desc => "regexp param" param :array_param, [100, "one", "two", 1, 2], :desc => "array validator" param :proc_param, lambda { |val| val == "param value" ? true : "The only good value is 'param value'." }, :desc => "proc validator" description <<-eos = Action View Base Action View templates can be written in several ways. If the template file has a .erb extension then it uses a mixture of ERb (included in Ruby) and HTML. If the template file has a .builder extension then Jim Weirich's Builder::XmlMarkup library is used. == ERB You trigger ERB by using embeddings such as <% %>, <% -%>, and <%= %>. The <%= %> tag set is used when you want output. Consider the following loop for names: Names of all the people <% @people.each do |person| %> Name: <%= person.name %>
<% end %> The loop is setup in regular embedding tags <% %> and the name is written using the output embedding tag <%= %>. Note that this is not just a usage suggestion. Regular output functions like print or puts won't work with ERB templates. So this would be wrong: <%# WRONG %> Hi, Mr. <% puts "Frodo" %> If you absolutely must write from within a function use +concat+. <%- and -%> suppress leading and trailing whitespace, including the trailing newline, and can be used interchangeably with <% and %>. === Using sub templates Using sub templates allows you to sidestep tedious replication and extract common display structures in shared templates. The classic example is the use of a header and footer (even though the Action Pack-way would be to use Layouts): <%= render "shared/header" %> Something really specific and terrific <%= render "shared/footer" %> As you see, we use the output embeddings for the render methods. The render call itself will just return a string holding the result of the rendering. The output embedding writes it to the current template. But you don't have to restrict yourself to static includes. Templates can share variables amongst themselves by using instance variables defined using the regular embedding tags. Like this: <% @page_title = "A Wonderful Hello" %> <%= render "shared/header" %> Now the header can pick up on the @page_title variable and use it for outputting a title tag: <%= @page_title %> === Passing local variables to sub templates You can pass local variables to sub templates by using a hash with the variable names as keys and the objects as values: <%= render "shared/header", { :headline => "Welcome", :person => person } %> These can now be accessed in shared/header with: Headline: <%= headline %> First name: <%= person.first_name %> If you need to find out whether a certain local variable has been assigned a value in a particular render call, you need to use the following pattern: <% if local_assigns.has_key? :headline %> Headline: <%= headline %> <% end %> Testing using defined? headline will not work. This is an implementation restriction. === Template caching By default, Rails will compile each template to a method in order to render it. When you alter a template, Rails will check the file's modification time and recompile it in development mode. == Builder Builder templates are a more programmatic alternative to ERB. They are especially useful for generating XML content. An XmlMarkup object named +xml+ is automatically made available to templates with a .builder extension. Here are some basic examples: xml.em("emphasized") # => emphasized xml.em { xml.b("emph & bold") } # => emph & bold xml.a("A Link", "href" => "http://onestepback.org") # => A Link xml.target("name" => "compile", "option" => "fast") # => # NOTE: order of attributes is not specified. Any method with a block will be treated as an XML markup tag with nested markup in the block. For example, the following: xml.div do xml.h1(@person.name) xml.p(@person.bio) end would produce something like:

David Heinemeier Hansson

A product of Danish Design during the Winter of '79...

A full-length RSS example actually used on Basecamp: xml.rss("version" => "2.0", "xmlns:dc" => "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/") do xml.channel do xml.title(@feed_title) xml.link(@url) xml.description "Basecamp: Recent items" xml.language "en-us" xml.ttl "40" @recent_items.each do |item| xml.item do xml.title(item_title(item)) xml.description(item_description(item)) if item_description(item) xml.pubDate(item_pubDate(item)) xml.guid(@person.firm.account.url + @recent_items.url(item)) xml.link(@person.firm.account.url + @recent_items.url(item)) xml.tag!("dc:creator", item.author_name) if item_has_creator?(item) end end end end More builder documentation can be found at http://builder.rubyforge.org. eos def show unless params[:session] == "secret_hash" render :text => "Not authorized", :status => 401 return end unless params[:id].to_i == 5 render :text => "Not Found", :status => 404 and return end render :text => "OK" end api :desc => "Create user", :path => "/users", :method => "POST" param :user, Hash, :desc => "User info" do param :username, String, :desc => "Username for login", :required => true param :password, String, :desc => "Password for login", :required => true param :membership, ["standard","premium"], :desc => "User membership" end def create render :text => "OK" end api :desc => "List users", :path => "/users", :method => "GET" error :code => 401, :desc => "Unauthorized" error :code => 404, :desc => "Not Found" desc "List all users." def index render :text => "List of users" end def doc @api = Restapi['users', :show] end end