From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2010-11-25T18:54:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamically creating webpages via Ruby

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Phil H. <henleyphil@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I could write everything before and after the body outside of the loop
> since it didn't require dynamic content I was extracting from my input
> urls.  That way I wasn't re-writing a bunch of static HTML every
> iteration of the loop... Hopefully that makes sense.

Well, if your JavaScript is a function that takes arguments, you could
write out something like this:
[url1, url2].each do |url|
  "<div><script javascript='myfunction(#{argument1}, #{argument2},
#{url.link})' />#{url.name}</div>" # My HTML and JS is rusty, so this
is pseudo-code
end
With argument[1,2] and url.link being the arguments your JavaScript
needs to do its dynamic magic, and url.name being, well, the link text
of your URL, for example (the methods url would accept depend on how
you gather the URLs, obviously).

> So if I continue with my current approach I would need to be able to
> jump around to different parts of the webpages as they are being written
> to avoid re-writing the static HTML..  I know that could probably be
> done somehow, but I was hoping I could just avoid that by separating the
> data
> extraction and page building processes.

Sometimes, reformulating the problem helps, too. If you could provide
abbreviate examples of what you want to achieve, we can give you more
specific advice, I guess.

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.