Paul,
Yeah. I'm on basically the same project too. Let us exchange notes on
anything we come up with. I love the form_assistant plugin. In fact,
in pre-Hobo days I rolled my own that was more or less exactly like
that one. But I don't see a use for extending FormBuilder anymore.
Frankly, DRYML is a superior tool for achieving that sort of thing. My
current grail quest is to make Hobo work seamlessly with Presenters as
if those classes were ActiveRecord objects. My basic approach has been
to use
class HoboForm < ActiveRecord::Base
self.abstract_class = true
def create_or_update
valid?
end
end
as a kind of base class for my presenters. It's a kludge for sure,
but until Hobo works with non-AR objects, I'm not sure what my options
are.
On Nov 19, 8:41 am, Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This thread smells related to the recipe that I requested
> atwww.cookbook.hobocentral.net. I've got a presenter combined with a
> form_assistant plugin that makes for an elegant and maintainable
> view. I want to capture a bunch of info at signup, which I would
> think would be a common concern. There are inevitably multiple models
> involved in that form. I've got the presenter logic in a seperate
> layer (helper for now). It's a thing of beauty. I need to figure out
> how to extend do_signup to use my presenter object--no help in the
> docs. But ara_vartanian brings up some good points on where this kind
> of logic should (shouldn't) live. It seems to me that common design
> problems with known patterns need an easy hobo implementation. There
> are some perspectives out there that say this level of design is over-
> thinking things. But why then does everyone have the Gang of Four
> book on their desktop? Sadly, I usually find myself floundering
> about to ultimately find elegant hobo solutions. Just bitching, sorry.
>
> --Paul
>
> On Nov 19, 2:05 am, Tom Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > if you wanted the :type
> > > => ... feature for attr_accessor you could probably just steal that
> > > bit from ModelExtensions.
>
> > Actually that made little sense, because that extension relies on a
> > bunch of other stuff in ModelExtentions : /
>
> > Tom
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