From: Charlie Bowman <charlie@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T05:31:17+09:00
Subject: Re: cleaner Ruby in a rails view

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I guess I am being a little picky.  ruby and rails both are the best at
what they do and it's hard to watch it fall short ( in my very picky
eyes ) in this one area.  I am going to work on adding a plugin to rails
that will fix the nil problem.  At least then I won't have to call a
helper method, rescue nil, or create an empty object just to display a
view.  This has been a great discussion! It's too bad that it wasn't on
the rails list...


> 
> > Something just doesn't feel right about creating an object just to
> > say that it's empty.  I guess I should ask this on the rails list,
> > but I like this list much better :) , Is is possible to add methods
> > to the nil class in only the views?  If so, that would be awsome!
> 
> I suppose you could engineer a way to do that, but it sounds awfully
> fragile, and like an awful lot of trouble to go to.  I'd rather
> normalize the data to an array (or whatever) and then just let each
> array take care of itself.
> 
> 
> David


Charlie Bowman
http://www.recentrambles.com

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