From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-07-26T02:50:42+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyonrails and cgikit comparison

>> So the EmployeesHelper is basically just a preconfigured version of 
>> the generic table. And in the template you'd just have:
>>   <h2>Employee payroll</h2>
>>   <%= payroll_table(@payroll) %>
>> That's pretty clean to me.
>
> That just leaves the reuse of a binding in several places in the 
> template as unanswered.

By binding, do you mean @payroll? If you don't want that left to the 
template, just include it in the helper method. So you would use:

     def payroll_table(additional_options = {})
       options = 
DEFAULT_OPTIONS_FOR_PAYROLL_TABLE.merge(additional_options)
       table(@payroll, options)
     end

Notice that you can reference all the variables available to the 
template in the helpers. Now you're down to:

   <%= payroll_table %>
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