From: Bauduin Raphael <rb@...>
Date: 2004-07-26T03:01:53+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyonrails and cgikit comparison

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
>>> 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 %>


OK, I'll try to develop a component for rails to see by myself.

Thanks for your explanations.

Raph


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