Expanded Library
Rails Rendering
by Noel Peden
This course teaches how to create a template handler, a custom renderer, and a file resolver for Rails, taking a deep dive into the Rails rendering stack along the way.
What you'll learn
Have you ever been curious about that Rails magic? Have you found the code daunting? In this course, we will create a template handler, a custom renderer, and a file resolver. Along the way we will explore the Rails rendering stack and get a better handle on the Rails code, which will make the custom code work easy!
About the author
Noel Peden began his computer career with an Apple IIe, where he learned Basic so he could make an MTV logo appear on screen. Much later, after many adventures in sarcasm, he obtained a Physics degree and returned in force to the world of programming. Automating everything, he programmed in perl, Java, Ruby, Rails, and Javascript, though not all at once. While working for a library consortium, he created an interlibrary loan MVC app with his trusty VIM editor and endless hand-typed Java. Though ... moreall turned out well, he never wanted to code Java from scratch again. Despair ensued. Would programming be enjoyable again? Enter Ruby and Rails. Oh joy! Noel migrated two monstrous Access databases to Rails with aplomb. He continues to learn and enjoy programming, creating fun solutions and open source software.