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Action View Walkthrough

#397 Action View Walkthrough pro

Dec 09, 2012 | 15 minutes | Views, Code Walkthrough
Find out exactly what Rails is doing under the hood when it renders a view template for a response. What object context handles the template? How does the lookup process work? That and more covered in this code walkthrough.
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terminal 
rake middleware
git clone https://github.com/rails/rails.git
cd rails
git checkout 3.2.9
rails console 
ArticlesController.view_paths
articles_controller.rb 
def index
  @articles = Article.all
  render # template: "index", prefixes: %w[articles application]
end