Workshop 5: Admiring the secenery Forms, AJAX screen layout and and mobile interfraces: To Do (RED team) Part B The active view: passing data 9.:

Restart the Web server and navigate the browser to http://localhost:3000/demo/rubycode

Data has been passed from the action to the view as it is done with SQL requests. The instance variables of a Ruby class are available to view templates by referencing the action’s instance variables by name in the view .rhtml template.

Workshop 5: Admiring the secenery Forms, AJAX screen layout and and mobile interfraces: To Do (RED team) Part B The active view: passing data 8.:

Then modify and save the corresponding view template in \app\views\demo\rubycode.rhtml by adding a call by reference to the action’s instance variable:

Workshop 5: Admiring the secenery Forms, AJAX screen layout and and mobile interfraces: To Do (RED team) Part B The active view: passing data 7.:

Modify and save the rubycode action with a value for the time instance variable in the DemoController class in app\controllers\demo_controller.rb

class DemoController< ApplicationController
def rubycode
@time_now = Time.now
end
end

Workshop 5: Admiring the secenery Forms, AJAX screen layout and and mobile interfraces: To Do (RED team) Part B The active view: passing data 6.:

Use the Time.now example to pass data from an action to a view.

Workshop 5: Admiring the secenery Forms, AJAX screen layout and and mobile interfraces: To Do (RED team) Part B The active view: passing data 5.:

Save and restart the Web server and navigate to http://localhost:3000/scenery/rubycode

Workshop 5: Admiring the secenery Forms, AJAX screen layout and and mobile interfraces: To Do (RED team) Part B The active view: passing data 4.:

Add a view template - scenery\app\views\demo\rubycode.rhtml
We will edit this view in later steps but you may like to add your own test HTML code to the view at this stage.

Workshop 5: Admiring the secenery Forms, AJAX screen layout and and mobile interfraces: To Do (RED team) Part B The active view: passing data 3.:

Add an action to demo_controller.rb as the method called rubycobe

class DemoController< ApplicationController
def rubycode
end
end

Workshop 5: Admiring the secenery Forms, AJAX screen layout and and mobile interfraces: To Do (RED team) Part B The active view: passing data 2.:

Create a controller called Demo in scenery\app\controllers

scenery> ruby script/generate controller Demo

Workshop 5: Admiring the secenery Forms, AJAX screen layout and and mobile interfraces: To Do (RED team) Part B The active view: passing data 1.:

Create a new application called scenery in the same projects directory to demonstrate the use of an active view.

> rails scenery
> cd scenery