Chapter 9. Rendering the User Interface with ActionView
After researching the market, Ruby on Rails stood out as the best choice. We have been very happy with that decision. We will continue building on Rails and consider it a key business advantage.
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The previous chapter analyzed the controller's role in a Rails application. For each request that comes in, a proper response is formulated, often by combining the data retrieved from the model layer with a template in the view layer. The functionalities provided by the view are all incorporated in the ActionView framework which, along with ActionController, forms ActionPack.
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