lovely-layouts

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h1. LovelyLayouts

Here's a bunch of helpers I find myself needing every time I start up a new Rails project. Mostly, it's just some nicer DSL wrappers around the @content_for@ patterns we all use to get get content up from the view to the layout in a Rails application (for titles, etc).

h2. In your view

Eg: app/views/posts/show.html.erb

h2. In your layout

  
    
       "optional prefix text", :suffix => "optional suffix text" %>
      
      
      
    
    
      ...
      
      ...
    
  

h2. And a neat trick for the @

A block helper for creating body tags is also in there. The @id@ is generated from @params[:controller]@ (eg "posts"), and the @class@ is generated from @params[:controller]@ name and @params[:action]@ (eg "posts show").

  
    ...
  

Which pushes out something like this:

  
    ...
  

You can set the @id@ and @class@ from your views:

You can override the @id@ and @class@ (or any attribute of the @

   "blog", :class => "whatever", :onload => "party()" do %>
    ...
  

h2. There's always a TODO List

• might write some tests!
• probably try to distill the way I do tabs too

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