From: Florian Weber <csshsh@...>
Date: 2004-07-08T19:48:41+09:00
Subject: best practice in ruby

hi!

im wondering what is a best practice for some design question i have
right now.

i have a template class, presenting a template in a cms application. the
template has a eruby file, which contain helper methods like
editable_content('some_type', 'some_name')

the helper methods like editable_content are defined in my template 
class.

now comes the real question: the helper methods can be used in two
ways creating the objects which represent the editable_content (and 
saving
it as a active record) and during the rendering, where the 
editable_content
method will fill in the real content.

to me it feels kinda bloated to implement both tasks in one class, 
thats why
i would like to extract the rendering part into another class.

whats the best practice for this in ruby?

would i just create something like:

MyRenderingTemplateClass.new(my_template_object).render

basically a decorator, where i also redefine the editable_content method
of the my_template_object, so i can use its normal parsing methods?

thanks a lot for any tip!

ciao!
florian