I have a strange predilection. I don't like cluttering up model classes with methods formatting data for my views. I also don't like to repeat myself time and time again by formatting dates, currencies, lists of names time and time again on my views. My pre-Hobo solution? Create a facade for my model objects which either formats those methods when called or forwards the call onward on method_missing. If my facade inherits from BlankSlate, it quacks just like an ActiveRecord object.
Up until the <view> tag. Let's say I have a collection as my implicit object and I do this: <repeat> <view field="foo"/> </repeat> Works great. But I want to inject my little formatter classes. Usually easy enough: each object has a method exposing its formatter, so I could do collection.*.formatter and have an array to cycle through. So: <repeat> <do with="&this.formatter"><view:foo/></do> </repeat> Ah but this doesn't work. Why? Digging through the source, I found that this_parent inside the view tag is still set to original model object, not the formatter. Setting this_parent explicitly is a no go (afterwards, this_parent.class became nil). Does anybody have any suggestions as how I can crack this little nut and get <view/> to work with a facade to the AR object? My Hobo-Fu isn't very good. I'm sure I could make this work if I knew the plumbing a bit better. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
