Changeset 458

Timestamp:

07/24/08 19:53:27 (3 months ago)

Author:

deveiant

Message:

• Updated intro page of the manual with more detail about templates, and clarified how applets fit together a bit better.
• Started conversion of the spec for Arrow::AppletRegistry?

Location:

trunk

Files:

• docs/manual/source/tutorial/intro.page (modified) (2 diffs)
• spec/arrow/applet_spec.rb (modified) (1 diff)
• spec/arrow/appletregistry_spec.rb (added)

trunk/docs/manual/source/tutorial/intro.page

@@ -36 +36 @@
         others, which makes keeping the View decoupled from the model easier than when 
         it's implemented as a purely procedural system with a shared-state mechanism. Arrow 
-        templates have an interface (in the API sense) just like any other Ruby object, and
-        are interacted with in much the same manner, which makes it possible to test the interaction 
-        between Controller and View without resorting to parsing the resulting HTML.</dd>
+        templates are first-order Ruby objects which have an interface (in the API sense) defined 
+        by its source just like any other Ruby object. You can interact with a template in much 
+        the same manner as you would any other Ruby object, which makes it possible to test the 
+        interaction between Controller and View without resorting to parsing the resulting 
+        HTML.</dd>
 
-    <dt>Composed Application Control</dt>
+    <dt>Composed Application Controllers</dt>
     <dd>A typical arrow application is composed of several cooperating Applet objects which are 
-        chained together, and communicate via delegation, in much the same way as command-line
-        utilities can be chained together to cooperate in the assembly of some final result. </dd>
+        "chained together":CoRpattern, and communicate via delegation, in much the same way as 
+        command-line utilities can be chained together to cooperate in the assembly of some final 
+        result. </dd>
 
     <dt>No Included Domain Model</dt>
@@ -104 +107 @@
 [DMpattern]http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/domainModel.html
 [Sequel]http://sequel.rubyforge.org/
-
+[CoRpattern]http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChainOfResponsibilityPattern

trunk/spec/arrow/applet_spec.rb

@@ -1 +1 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# 
+# Specification for the Arrow::Applet class
+# $Id$
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2004-2008 The FaerieMUD Consortium. Most rights reserved.
+# 
 
 BEGIN {