From: Kyle Wilson <kyle.wilson@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T01:59:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Iowa documentation

Avi,

Thanks!  I came across the Ruby Developer's Guide a couple days ago, and 
noticed IOWA in the index.  I've already ordered it, and I'm waiting for 
it to arrive.  I'll take a closer look at the guestbook example.

Kyle

avi@beta4.com wrote:
> "Kyle Wilson" <kyle.wilson@amd.com> wrote in message news:<3D763115.2070601@amd.com>...
> 
>>Does anyone know where I can find some documentation or code examples 
>>for Iowa besides on the http://beta4.com/iowa/ website.  The tutorial on 
>>the Iowa website isn't complete yet, and I was hoping to find some 
>>examples of how sessions work, and how to move between pages.  A 
>>complete API reference would be nice too.
> 
> 
> The only other documentation I know of is in the book published by
> Michael Neumann and co. (Ruby Developer's Guide, was it?).  However,
> to answer your immediate questions:
> 
> - the session object can be accessed from any component as @session.
> If you create a subclass of Iowa::Session it will be used instead of
> the standard session class.  There's an example of this in the
> guestbook example, which uses a session subclass to track the number
> of hits.
> 
> - To create a new page, use the pageNamed method, passing it the name
> of a component class.  This will return a new instance of that class,
> which you can configure as you want; then yield it to have it be the
> next page shown.  Again, there's an example of this in guestbook/, in
> viewGuest of Main.html.
> 
> Cheers,
> Avi
> 
>