From: OZAWA Sakuro <crouton@...>
Date: 1999-07-25T04:59:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:00520] Re: CGI.rb

> I am using CGI.rb. It's very nice.
> But, is it possible to create tables with it?

Assuming you mention 'cgi-lib.rb', its CGI class defines no method for
table generation.

For some very simple cases, following code might help.
It asumes no spanning(holds two or more) columns/rows, and handles
little cosmetics.

It would be nice to have servlet classes for ruby...:-)

-- 
OZAWA Sakuro
<mailto:crouton@duelists.org>
<http://www.duelists.org/~crouton/>

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# require 'cgi-lib.rb'
class CGI
  def table(headings, rows, border=nil)
    if border
      if border.kind_of?(String) and /^\d+[a-zA-Z]*/ =~ border
        result = "<table border=\"#{border}\">\n"
      else
	result = "<table border>\n"
      end	 
    else
      result = "<table>\n"
    end
    result << "<tr>"
    headings.each do |item|
      result << "<th>#{item}</th>"
    end
    result << "</tr>\n"
    rows.each do |row|
      result << "<tr>"
      row.each do |item|
        result << "<td>#{item}</td>"
      end
      result << "</tr>\n"
    end
    result << "</table>\n"
  end
end

# sample
headings = [ "Name",  "Age" , "Sex" ]
rows = [
         [ "Jack", "30", "M" ],
         [ "Betty", "29", "F" ]
       ] 

# x = CGI.new
print x.table(headings, rows)
print x.table(headings, rows, true)
print x.table(headings, rows, "5px")