Rails Guides - Getting Started

[SandyFischler]

Hi, just wanted to THANK YOU for this great resource and pass along something that I found confusing....

Being a total newbie to rails and going through the first exercises of creating a blog, I keep getting confused between post as a method and post as a resource. It might be more helpful if the resource in the example was named something other than "post" for clarity.

For example, in this section I'm not sure whether we are talking about the resource post or the the action post.

def create
@post = Post.new(post_params)

@post.save
redirect_to @post
end

private
def post_params
params.require(:post).permit(:title, :text)
end

[chancancode]

Thanks for reporting this, I wouldn't have realized that but now that you pointed it out I can see that could indeed cause confusion, especially in cases like post_params, and for people coming from more "low level" frameworks.

I don't see why we couldn't substitute that with something like "article" (as in blog article). Do you think that would work?

cc @fxn

[fxn]

That is a good point, 👍 on using a different model.

[senny]

I'm 👍 on this. I like Article.

[prathamesh-sonpatki]

I would like to take up this issue. I assume this means changing the Getting Started app code also /cc @senny

[senny]

@prathamesh-sonpatki yes it does.

[prathamesh-sonpatki]

@fxn i saw that you have updated Gemfile in Getting Started app to use Rails 4.1.0. How can i do that locally? Building gems by rake build and rake install created 4.1.0.beta1 versions of all gems

[fxn]

I did it by hand, because it cannot be edited after release.

[fxn]

Oh by the way, I have in mind deleting that sample app, it does not seem to be well maintained.