Merb Wiki development

Rails-style "Flash" messages

2009-01-24T01:14:49-07:00

Merb lets you do Rails-style “flash” messages that you can use to inform the user about the results of certain actions. Merb's messages are slightly different because they are encoded and serialized into the request, and do not require the session ala Rails. Because of this optimization, you'll end up with an extra _message request parameter, but you gain not having to use a session :)

development:mailer

2008-11-21T20:16:31-07:00

See

development:rails_quickstart

2009-01-18T14:37:17-07:00

bah... it is normal? I don't think so.. I can edit without permissions? are you crazy man?.

Resource url helpers

2008-12-24T05:08:39-07:00

Let say you have a model called Article and you defined a route using: resources :articles Here is a list of url helpers you can use: # helper, HTTP verb, controller action resource(:articles) # GET => index resource(@article) # GET => show resource(:articles, :new) # GET => new resource(@article, :edit) # GET => edit resource(@article, :delete) # GET => delete resource(:articles) # POST => create resource(@article) # PUT => update resource(@article) …

Merb Router

2008-10-20T19:18:37-07:00

The merb router is found in $MERB_ROOT/config/router.rb. It will by default contain a block that looks like: Merb::Router.prepare do # RESTful routes # resources :posts # This is the default route for /:controller/:action/:id # This is fine for most cases. If you're heavily using resource-based # routes, you may want to comment/remove this line to prevent # clients from calling your create or destroy actions with a GET default_routes # Change this for your home page to b…

Serving Static Content

2008-10-12T16:19:52-07:00

You can pop static HTML pages into the public directory of your Merb app, and your web server will bypass your app and render them. For instance: $ cd my_merb_app $ echo "

Hello World

" > public/hello.html Visit , and your static HTML will appear!