From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T03:13:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] html-table 0.0.1

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Daniel Berger wrote:

i did something similar a while back - it was one of my first ruby libs so
it's pretty dated but you might find it interesting.

http://eli.fsl.noaa.gov/eg/ruby/html/widget.rb

-a

> Hi all,
>
> I'm happy to announce the release of html-table, a Ruby interface for
> generating HTML Tables without having to manually generate HTML tags
> yourself.  While inspired by Perl's HTML::Table, the API is only
> somewhat similar and the internals are completely different.  The goal
> was to provide a widget-like interface where <TR> represents a "row" and
> <TD> and <TH> represent a column.
>
> For now, I am releasing this as "Beta" because I have not entirely made
> up my mind about the API.  Mostly, I'll be waiting for feedback to see
> how you all like it.  Also, please see the "Future Plans" section.
>
> Synopsis:
>
> require "html/table"
>
> # Create a table
> table = HTML::Table.new{ |t|
>    t.border = 1
>    t.align  = "center"
> }
>
> # Create a TableRow object (<tr>) add it explicitly
> row0 = HTML::TableRow.new{ |r|
>    r.align   = "left"
>    r.bgcolor = "red"
> }
>
> table.add_tr(row0)
>
> # Create a row implicitly, plus add content, on the fly
> row1 = table.add_tr{ |r|
>    r.align = "right"
>    r.bgcolor = "green"
>    r.content = ["foo","bar"] # Add 2 TableData objects (columns)
> }
>
> # Create a TableData object (<td>) and add it explicitly
> col0 = HTML::TableData.new{ |d|
>    d.content = "Hello World!"
>    d.nowrap  = true
> }
>
> row0.add_td(col0)
>
> # Go back and configure row 1, column 1 ("bar" from above)
> table.configure(1,1){ |d|
>    d.content = "new bar"
>    d.width = 5
>    d.height = 10
> }
>
> # Finally, print the table
> puts table.html
>
> ### OUTPUT ###
> <table border=1 align='center'>
>    <tr align='left' bgcolor='red'>
>       <td nowrap>Hello World!</td>
>    </tr>
>    <tr align='right' bgcolor='green'>
>       <td>foo</td>
>       <td width=5 height=10>new bar</td>
>    </tr>
> </table>
>
> There are several examples included in the documentation as well.
> Please see the 'doc' and 'doc/examples' directories.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Dan
>
>

-a
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