11.24. Conclusion

This very long chapter served as a thorough reference of helper methods, both those provided by Rails and ideas for ones that you will write yourself. Effective use of helper methods leads to more elegant and maintainable view templates. At this point, you should also have a good overview about how I18n support in Ruby on Rails works and are ready to start translating your project.

Before we fully conclude our coverage of Action Pack, (the name used to refer to Action Controller and Action View together), we’ll jump into the world of Ajax and JavaScript. Arguably, one of the main reasons for Rails’s continued popularity is its support for those two crucial technologies of Web 2.0.