Question

I’m just starting to learn Rails. I created an empty Rails app. And instead of writing a Controller, I want to put all of my Controller logic in my Views instead of in separate Controller classes.

To do this, should I use .erb files or .rhtml files and what’s the difference?

Answer 1

First of all, they are virtually the same thing but you should use the new standard naming format of .html.erb

Second of all, stop what you are doing and reconsider everything!!!!!

The whole point of MVC is to separate logic from display and vice versa. Most of your logic should be in your models and the controller should just facilitate grabbing that logic and passing it to your views.

You should not do anything in your views other than display the data.