@cart.add_product(product)

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Any one can explain me???

in agile web development book in chapter Cart Creation

depot_f/app/models/cart.rb

class Cart   attr_reader :items   def initialize     @items =   end

def add_product(product)    @items << product end end

depot_f/app/views/store/index.html.erb

<%= button_to 'Add to Cart', :action => 'add_to_cart', :id => product %>

depot_f/app/controllers/store_controller.rb

def add_to_cart    product = Product.find(params[:id])    @cart = find_cart    @cart.add_product(product) end

when use will click on Add_to_cart button in index page then width particular product id add_to_cart action take placed in store_controller.rb file.After finding the array of row from from table product and assign to product variable. then find_cart method is called in same controller which is private and create OR initialize session. then add_product method is called width product variable then it will goes to cart.rb model and then execute def

add_product(product)    @items << product end

please explain me why add_product(product) method in store_controller will go in Cart class in model cart.rb why not in other class.

thanks

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add_product is called by the line @cart.add_product(product) @cart is a Cart object so it calls the add_product method of the Cart class. Perhaps you should do a bit of reading up on basic Ruby. The Ruby Pickaxe book is very good.

Colin