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View Sandboxes for Rails
Designing HTML views is an iterative, interactive process by nature. And anything that slows down the iterations, slows down development. I was working on a form recently where the steps to show it went something like this: Go to the … Continue reading
Getting Started with Erector in Rails 3
A quick guide to getting up and running with the Erector templating library. EDIT: Here’s the fork and branch I used to get it working.
Object Oriented Programming Comes to Rails
decent_exposure helps you program to an interface, rather than an implementation in your Rails controllers. Sharing state via instance variables in controllers promotes close coupling with views. decent_exposure gives you a declarative manner of exposing an interface to the state … Continue reading
Counters for Partials
Sometimes I like to number rows using a counter when rendering lists of things: <% @products.each_with_index do |product, i| %> <li class=”product_<%= i %>”><%= product.name %></li> <% end %> They are handy for testing, among other things. Of course, if … Continue reading
