Finally... Views! RoR has done many neat things on the frontend to make development life much easier. There are lots of nice methods that are provided so that you don't have to write pure HTML code. These methods can be found in the API.
Your views also have access to variables found in the controller. As RoR works a lot on implicitness, the view corresponds to the controller action with the same name. For example, if you have edit.rhtml, then the corresponding controller action is named edit. Any variables using @var is accessible in the view. This allows you to separate out all the logic to the controller, and the view is truly used only for displaying purposes! Awesome!
Another wonderful thing about RoR Views, is that there are a bunch of helpers. What do I mean by this? For instance, if you have an object, say @user representing a User model, which usually has a profile, the view can use helpers that automatically link up a form with your @user object. A nice little manual describes this:
http://railsmanual.com/module/ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper/form_for
I've noticed that this makes development a lot more efficient! Just wonderful!
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