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Rails Rendering

by Noel Peden

This course teaches how to create a template handler, a custom renderer, and a file resolver for Rails, taking a deep dive into the Rails rendering stack along the way.

What you'll learn

Have you ever been curious about that Rails magic? Have you found the code daunting? In this course, we will create a template handler, a custom renderer, and a file resolver. Along the way we will explore the Rails rendering stack and get a better handle on the Rails code, which will make the custom code work easy!

About the author

Noel Peden began his computer career with an Apple IIe, where he learned Basic so he could make an MTV logo appear on screen. Much later, after many adventures in sarcasm, he obtained a Physics degree and returned in force to the world of programming. Automating everything, he programmed in perl, Java, Ruby, Rails, and Javascript, though not all at once. While working for a library consortium, he created an interlibrary loan MVC app with his trusty VIM editor and endless hand-typed Java. Though ... more

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