From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-03-21T21:17:52+09:00
Subject: Re: if-less if statements

Hi --

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Paul Mckibbin wrote:

> Paul Mckibbin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:01:48 -0500
>>>> Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks,
>>
>
> Actually, and this is definitely more appropriate to the rails forum,
> you should really have this in you user_helper.rb or
> application_helper.rb file and called it from the view.
>
> e.g.
>
> In the view:
>
> <%= in_place_editor_field 'user','w_phone',
> check_red_style(@user.w_phone), :cols=>20%>
>
>
> In the application_helper.rb file:
>
> module ApplicationHelper
>  def check_red_style(input,test=/Click to edit|Check format/)
>    (input=~test) ? {:style=>'color:red'} : {}
>  end
> end
>
> and then you can use whatever regular expression you want from the view
> (although check that you can have nested helpers, I don't think it's a
> problem, but I don't have a scratch rails area to test it on).

They're just instance methods available to the current object, so you
can have as any as you like.


David

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