Monorail is a lightweight MVC framework inspired by Rails.
Monorail provides you with session cookies, a base controller, ERB views, and a router to direct HTTP requests.
After starting a server, you'll be able to create routes and controllers to field your HTTP requests. Controllers will use their inherited base controller functionality to field your requests and construct a response according to your views, and the response will be returned to your browser!
- Clone this repo and use
cdto navigate to it - Run
bundle install - Follow the instructions below to add Controllers, Routes, and Views.
- Start a server by running
ruby bin/server.rb
Controllers should be added to app/controllers and must inherit from lib/controller_base.rb
# app/controllers/my_controller.rb
require '../../lib/controller_base'
class MyController < ControllerBase
# ...
endRequire your controllers at the top of config/routes.rb.
require_relative ('../app/controllers/posts_controller.rb')Construct routes by passing a regex, controller name, and action symbol to Router.draw
# config/routes.rb
MyRouter.draw do
get Regexp.new("^/posts$"), PostsController, :index
get Regexp.new("^/posts/new$"), PostsController, :new
post Regexp.new("^/posts$"), PostsController, :create
get Regexp.new("^/posts/(?<id>\\d+)$"), PostsController, :show
get Regexp.new("^/posts/(?<id>\\d+)/edit$"), PostsController, :edit
patch Regexp.new("^/posts/(?<id>\\d+)$"), PostsController, :update
delete Regexp.new("^/posts/(?<id>\\d+)$"), PostsController, :destroy
endAdd ERB views to app/views/.
NB: You must name your views as <resource_name>_controller/<template_name>.html.erb for them to be recognized by your controllers.
<!-- app/views/posts_controller/index.html.erb -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>All Posts</h1>
<!-- ... -->
</body>
</html>- Ruby
- Rack
- ERB
- JSON