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MonoRail vs Web Client Software Factory (WCSF)

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Blog post: Rendering Binary data

Test-driven development and MonoRail's Controllers

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Accessing built-in helpers from a custom helper
[Using capturefor to keep things neat]
Sending Email With RenderViewAndSend

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CRUDs

CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, Delete.
The rationale behind CRUD is that a website needs to Create records, Read records, Update records or Delete records.
CRUD operations are implemented in your controller.

One way to implement CRUD in your web application specifically is to use RESTful* design. REST stands for Representational State Transfer.

REST is a design that treats your web resources using standard HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

So for example URL:
http://www.company.com/products/list
is broken down into a resource part: http://www.company.com/products
and an action "list", which is basically a GET method.

Similarly
http://www.company.com/products/edit/1
is broken down into a resource part: http://www.company.com/products
and an action: edit
with an argument id of the product: 1

There are some generators that create a Controller class for you with all the basic CRUD method stubs, but you can also create them on your own.
The minimum set of methods needed to implement RESTful deisng CRUD is:

index
GET request
URL example: /products/index.rails
lists all your models (i.e. retrieves all the products in the database)
show
GET request
URL example: /products/show.rails?id=1
display a particular model
new
GET request
URL example: /products/new
renders a form for creation of the new product (for example renders a New Product form)
create
PUT request
URL example: /products/create/?title=NewProduct&description=ThisIsDescription
creates an actual model from the forms submission rendered by new action
edit
GET request
URL example: /products/new/?id=1
renders an edit view for a particular product
update
PUT request
URL example: /products/edit/?id=1&?title=NewProduct&description=ThisIsDescription
updates a model based on the data provided in the submitted form (rendered by edit action)
destroy
DELETE request
URL example: /products/destroy/?id=1
destroys a model with a given id