Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module R202. This topic is presented on public course Ruby on Rails

Ruby is a great, pragmatic langauge and Rails lets you use it by providing the framework through which you can interface databases to you ruser's browser, using the framework of Rails and the glue of Ruby. Ruby can be embedded within pages at a View level, built in, or used at the Controller level via ApplicationController classes. This module opens the door on a very powerful and effective system.Ror - Ruby on Rails

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config_routes.rb	Routing for product and aisle resources - configuration
controller_application_controller.rb	Controller General Helpers
controller_floor_controller.rb	Our main shop floor controller
db_seeds.rb	Seeding data for use when application is installed
greeting.rhtml	Some Ruby at the top of a view
ilib.rb	Hello Rails World controller
models_ailse.rb	How to validate an Aisle object
models_product.rb	How to validate a Product object
views_floor_addaisle.html.erb	The view for the "add aisle" page
views_floor_addproduct.html.erb	The view for the add product page
views_floor_index.html.erb	Home page for Ruby-on-rails sample application
views_floor_stock.html.erb	View to list out what we sell, listed aisle by aisle
views_layouts_floor.html.erb	Template that encloses all pages in the application