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Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails

By : A P Rajshekhar
Book Image

Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails

By: A P Rajshekhar

Overview of this book

<p>Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework ideally suited to building business applications; accelerating and simplifying the creation of database-driven websites. Often shortened to Rails or RoR, it provides a stack of tools to rapidly build web applications based on the Model-View-Controller design pattern.<br />&nbsp;<br />This book is a tutorial for creating a complete website with Ruby on Rails. It will teach you to develop database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller pattern. It will take you on a joy ride right from installation to a complete dynamic website. All the applications discussed in this book will help you add exciting features to your website. This book will show you how to assemble RoR's features and leverage its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully featured website. Each chapter adds a new feature to the site, adding new knowledge, skills, and techniques.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Developing the Interface for Administration

In the previous chapters, we have specified certain functionalities as accessible only to the administrator. However, we still haven't developed a User Interface from where the administrator can access all of them without navigating between multiple modules. In this chapter, we will be designing such an interface that will facilitate the administrator in 'administering' the TaleWiki.

First, we will identify from the already implemented functionalities those that an administrator will require to manage the TaleWiki as well as add new ones. Then we will implement them and wrap up the chapter by testing the administrative interface.