From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T08:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedded Ruby and Tag Libs

On Sep 26, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Adam Van Den Hoven wrote:

> James,
>
> I agree, except that it starts to fall apart as you get more complex.
>
> Lets take an example from rails that REALLY annoys me: form_tag. It  
> follows largely the same form you suggest.
>
> Right now to make a form in rails you do the following:
>
> <%= form_tag :controller=>"foo" :action=>"bar" %>
>    Name:
>     <%= text_field "person", "name", "size" => 20 %>
>     Password:
>     <%= password_field "person", "password", "maxsize" => 20 %>
>     Single?:
>     <%= check_box "person", "single" %>
>     Description:
>     <%= text_area "person", "description", "cols" => 20 %>
>     <input type="submit" value="Save">
> <%= end_form_tag %>
>
> There's no easy way to encapsulate this into a single method,  
> although Devin (as I'm writting this) has some good suggestions.

Would you mind showing how you would clean this up with an XML syntax?

I personally find XML very wordy.

James Edward Gray II