Ruby on Rails

On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:48:50 AM UTC+1, rihad wrote:
> Hi, just started reading http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
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> In case we need to show a field in several templates, we need to
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> duplicate its type (text_field etc). The type belongs to the field, so
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> why not remove this repetition by making a self-contained "field" like
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> f.name, or f.label, or f.content, that would encompass rendering logic
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> and would spit out proper form snippet: <%= f.name %> Then if someone
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> wanted to override how a certain field is rendered, they could spell
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> everything out as above.

You certainly can do that - I think either the guide or the api docs for form_for show how to subclass FormBuilder to achieve this. This is something that is going to be quite specific to each app so doesn't belong in rails itself

Fred

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