Replaces your Rails controllers, views and forms with meta programming. Considers routes.rb, ability.rb, current_user and does the right thing.

GitLab is transitioning from controller specs to request specs.

There is no request.env in functional tests because the functional tests are supposed to remain at the controller level.

Compared to existing Ruby desktop frameworks, such as Shoes, Bowline's strengths are its adherence to MVC and use of HTML/JavaScript.

As with other software patterns, MVC expresses the "core of the solution" to a problem while allowing it to be adapted for each system.

Are we a controller?

“A controller determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.” This is you.

whose personal data you collect and process as “controller” (that is the word that GDPR uses for whoever determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data).

The process of collecting and storing user consent from a technical perspective