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Interacting with UITableViews

Currently our AlphabetController is the dataSource of the table, but remember how tables also have a delegate? We need to make our controller the delegate if we want it to respond when someone taps the row.

The table view’s dataSource methods are generally about supplying information to a table; the delegate methods concern themselves with what happens after the table is set up and how the user interacts with it. We’ll use one of these delegate methods to push a new view controller when a row is tapped.

We start by making our controller the delegate in viewDidLoad, just like dataSource.

tables/TableFun_interact/app/controllers/alphabet_controller.rb

@table.dataSource = self
@table.delegate = self

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