Question

I’m just learning Ruby on Rails. I’ve read a few books, I’ve watched lots of Railscasts, I’ve looked at some examples.

However, when working on my first serious project with Rails, I’ve gotten hung up on how to properly implement some very basic web site features that most tutorials I’ve seen lack.

For instance: Navigation menus. Lots of tutorials on how to make a static one, but what about dynamic? If I want to make a navigation bar that’s different across pages, how would I go about doing that?

I think that the best way to learn things like this is by seeing example code. Are there any good open sourced sites in RoR? Any example code that I can check out?

I guess my question really results to using MVC. The basic idea is really basic, and I understand that. But it seems that most applications have each part completely separate from each other… what if I want to, say, combine data from two models to display on the same page? To take the example I posed, if I have a NavModel and a PageModel, can my PageController access both models? I guess I’d assumed that a PageController can only access a PageModel, and none other. All examples I’ve seen seem to operate this way…is that a faulty assumption?

Or am I totally missing the point, and is that ‘doing it wrong?’

Answer 1

Open Source Rails is a repository of sites implemented in rails.