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Adding Style with Action Pack In this conclusion to an eighteen-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, we'll take the application we've built in previous parts and give it some style. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Handling HTML in Templates with Action Pack In this seventeenth part of an eighteen-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll learn how and why to escape HTML in templates, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Filters, Controllers and Helpers in Action Pack In this sixteenth part of an eighteen-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll learn how to apply filters to controllers and how to use Action View helpers. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Action Pack and Controller Filters In this fifteenth part of an eighteen-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll start learning how and why to use control filters. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Action Pack Categories and Events In this fourteenth part of a multi-part series on the Action Pack library, you'll learn how to add categories to the Events form and handle categories in the Events controller. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Logging Out, Events and Templates with Action Pack In this thirteenth part of a multi-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll learn how to log out a user, clean up the events controller, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Action Pack Sessions and Architecture In this twelfth part of a multi-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, we'll focus on the architecture of Rails and how the system handles session data. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). More on Action Pack Partial Templates In this eleventh part of a series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll learn another way to assign local variables inside a partial template, and how to control the logging in and out of users. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Action Pack Partial Templates In this tenth part of a multi-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll learn what partials are and how they can save you a lot of time and effort. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Displaying Error Messages with the Action Pack Library In this ninth part of a multi-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll learn how to displya error messages in templates, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Action Pack Request Parameters In this eighth part of a series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you will learn how to handle request parameters and how to use the render method. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Creating an Action Pack Registration Form In this seventh part of a multi-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll learn how to create a registration form using form helpers. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Ruby on Rails Templates and Layouts In this sixth part to a multi-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll learn how to create a template and work with layouts. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Action Pack Controller Creation In this fifth part of a multi-part series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you will learn how to configure routes for the event manager, and how to generate a controller. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Writing an Action Pack Controller In this fourth part of a series on the Action Pack library for Rails focusing on the view and the controller, we'll start writing some real code for an Action Pack controller. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Action Pack Routing and Request Cycle In this third part of an article series on the Action Pack library for Rails, you'll learn about the specialized Action Pack component called routing, and the basic steps of the Action Pack request cycle. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Action Pack and Action View In this second part of a multi-part series on the Action Pack library in Ruby-on-Rails, you'll learn about Action View and the way its templates use Embedded Ruby code (ERb). This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Action Pack Overview The Action Pack library for Rails handles the chain of events that starts when a user makes a request to a Ruby-on-Rails application. This article series gives you an overview of the library, and then walks you through using it in a sample application. It's excerpted from chapter six of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Finishing a Basic Ruby-on-Rails Application In this conclusion to a four-part article series on building a basic Ruby-on-Rails application, you'll learn how to add validations, build the basic scaffolding, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter three of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862). Database Tables, Controllers for Ruby-on-Rails Applications In this third part of a four-part article series on building a basic Ruby-on-Rails application, you will learn how to create a database table, generate a controller, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter three of the book Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional, written by Jeffery Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Hampton Catlin (Apress; ISBN: 1590596862).