Chapter 9. Rendering the User Interface with ActionView

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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.