@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Handlers Structure --------- -Handler is the generic term that Sinatra uses for the "controllers". A +Handler is the generic term that Sinatra uses for the "controllers". A handler is the initial point of entry for new HTTP requests into your application. @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ To find more about the routes, head to the [Routes section](#routes) Form parameters --------------- -In handlers you can reach submitted form parameters directly via the params hash: +In handlers you can access submitted form parameters directly via the params hash: get '/' do params['post'] @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ In handlers you can reach submitted form parameters directly via the params hash ### Nested form parameters -The support of Rails like nested parameters is built-in since Sinatra version 9.0. Before this version you have to [implement this functionality as a before filter](#nested_params_as_filter)! +The support for Rails-like nested parameters has been built-in since Sinatra version 0.9.0. Before this version you had to [implement this functionality as a before filter](#nested_params_as_filter)! <form> <input ... name="post[title]" /> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Basic usage is easy: redirect 'http://www.google.com' The redirect actually sends back a Location header to the browser, and the -browser makes a followup request to the location indicated. Since the browser +browser makes a followup request to the location indicated. Since the browser makes that followup request, you can redirect to any page, in your application, or another site entirely. @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Sessions ### Default Cookie Based Sessions -Sinatra ships with basic support for cookie based sessions. To enable it, in a +Sinatra ships with basic support for cookie-based sessions. To enable it in a configure block, or at the top of your application, you just need to enable the option. @@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ the option. end The downside to this session approach is that all the data is stored in the -cookie. Since cookies have a fairly hard limit of 4 kilobytes, you can't store -much data. The other issue is that cookies are not tamper proof. The user -can change any data in their session. But... it is easy, and it doesn't have +cookie. Since cookies have a fairly hard limit of 4 kilobytes, you can't store +much data. The other issue is that cookies are not tamper proof - the user +can change any data in their session. But... it is easy, and it doesn't have the scaling problems that memory or database backed sessions run into. ### Memory Based Sessions book/Handlers.markdown 3cce9b3eb8fbf8c162b07e15977559998eca0ab2 gruner andrew@divineflame.com http://github.com/sinatra/sinatra-book/commit/596f0ceb302fa598c259a5b5ad2f633d5fcf4fc3 596f0ceb302fa598c259a5b5ad2f633d5fcf4fc3 2009-05-23T00:33:48-07:00 2009-05-22T13:26:59-07:00 The '9.0' version number was confusing. Changed it to '0.9.0'. Also fixed a few grammar and punctuation issues. Signed-off-by: Simon Rozet <simon@rozet.name> 7299ec28bbec20dec80d9ebcd664258ac4d5be37 Simon Rozet simon@rozet.name