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