Hi Owen, many thanks for your reply. I am extremely glad to hear that
I am not the only programmer who has initially struggled after picking
up Hobo. I am also very grateful to everyone that has attempted to
help me thus far, I really appreciate people taking time out of their
day to try and help some hopeless newcomer! I understand that the top
guys in Hobo-land should be left free to make Hobo even better, that
is absolutely where their talents should be utilised. I have found
that in many ways my frustration with Hobo is born out of a
realisation that it is an amazing tool, and exactly what I am looking
for! I just don't know how to use it properly. Yet! As I said before I
am extremely keen to cut my teeth in Hobo, and would love to be able
to contribute to it's development in any way that I can be helpful. PS
Brett, many thanks for your post. You are right, that is definitely
more help than I was after! Your code has helped me understand a few
DRYML related things better, I think it is finally beginning to click!
Unfortunately I am still floundering a little with my initial problem:
How to display information and links from only one model in the index
page (index.dryml) The DRYML that was generated for me automatically
is under 20 lines in total and displays content and creates links to
every available model using an array, what I am after (seems to me) to
be even simpler than this. I'm just not sure about how to set the
context of my query in DRYML. I have managed to work out how to set
the context for the links on the page, so I now have only the wanted
link to create a new post. All I have left to figure out is how to
restrict the repeat on the page to only the post model.
index.dryml currently looks like this:
<page title ="Home">
<body: class = "index-page" for ="Home"/>
<content:>
<span class="view model:post">
<a href="/posts/new">New Blog Post</a>
</span>
<section class="content-body" repeat="&front_models">
<collection:all/>
</section>
</content:>
</page>
The problem is repeat="&front_models" this seems to be an array of all
models? I can't find any information on how to change this focus.
I also thought I might be able to restrict what was being displayed
using the <collection> tag, but thus far I have only found two
parameters that it will accept: "recent" and "all"
It is so frustrating to be utterly stumped by something so simple.
Please someone put me out of my misery!
Ian.
On Dec 17, 10:58 am, James Garlick <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If I were using standard Rails I might redirect the "Home"
> controller to the
> > "Posts" view using: redirect_to(:action => 'Posts') but this
> > doesn't work with Hobo because all of the views are DRYML not ERB.
>
> Why do you say that? That should work fine in Hobo, but since you are
> in a different
> controller you'd need to do something like redirect_to object_url(Post)
>
> On 16 Dec 2008, at 18:10, Ian Wood wrote:
>
>
>
> > Yes I have already found the definitions that are automatically
> > defined at apps/views/taglibs/auto/rapid/, my problem is that I cannot
> > find any up to date information on how to call these definitions, and
> > the views are not created for me so I can't check pre-existing code.
> > So for example, I have
>
> > <def tag="index-page" for="Post">
> > <page merge title="Posts">
> > <body: class="index-page post" param/>
>
> > <content: param>
> > <header param="content-header">
> > <h2 param="heading">Posts</h2>
>
> > <p param="count" if>There <count prefix="are"/></p>
> > </header>
>
> > <section param="content-body">
>
> > <a action="new" to="&model" param="new-link"/>
>
> > <page-nav param="top-page-nav"/>
>
> > <collection param/>
>
> > <page-nav param="bottom-page-nav"/>
> > </section>
> > </content:>
> > </page>
> > </def>
>
> > in apps/views/taglibs/auto/rapid/pages.dryml
> > but I don't know how to use this correctly within another page. I can
> > see that it is creating a link to the "Posts" model but with no
> > explanations available it's quite hard to tell how this is happening.
> > Even the DRYML information on passing parameters seems to be out of
> > date so I have no clue how to call anything! All I need is one working
> > and up to date example of how to define a call to a single model
> > instead of an array of models. As standard in index.dryml it uses:
> > repeat="&front_models" which is obviously all the models. But in the
> > defs above it is calling "&model" but how is it's focus being defined?
> > Is it by the class, or is it simply that this page will already be
> > linked to the relevant model by default? If so how do I create these
> > associations for the "home" page? Sorry if what I am asking seems very
> > simple, but I have been trying to work out how this works for days
> > now, and I simply can't find any information explaining it. If I were
> > using standard Rails I might redirect the "Home" controller to the
> > "Posts" view using: redirect_to(:action => 'Posts') but this
> > doesn't work with Hobo because all of the views are DRYML not ERB.
>
> > On Dec 16, 5:22 pm, James Garlick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> They are created, just all in one file at app/views/taglibs/auto/
> >> rapid/
> >> pages.dryml. You can't edit that file directly
> >> as it is generated dynamically but maybe you can use the definitions
> >> in there to help you write the front page.
>
> >> On 16 Dec 2008, at 16:20, Ian Wood wrote:
>
> >>> I think I have explained myself a bit misleadingly. Thanks to your
> >>> post I have got to grips with how to control what tabs display in my
> >>> app. The final piece of the puzzle for me is to work out how I go
> >>> about replicating the appearance of the "post" page on the "home"
> >>> page. As it stands index.dryml creates an array and populates it
> >>> with
> >>> the names of all of the models I have created. This creates links
> >>> for
> >>> each of the models on the "home" page. The final part of my
> >>> problem is
> >>> redefining this and replacing it with a display of only the "post"
> >>> model. I'm a little lost with this because show.dryml pages for
> >>> all of
> >>> the models aren't created as standard so I have nothing to go on!
>
> >>> On Dec 16, 4:12 pm, James Garlick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> Replace the main navigation on your front page with a custom one
> >>>> just
> >>>> for that page:
>
> >>>> app/views/front/index.dryml
>
> >>>> <page>
> >>>> <main-nav: replace>
> >>>> <navigation class="main-nav">
> >>>> <nav-item with="&Post">Posts</nav-item>
> >>>> </navigation>
> >>>> </main-nav:>
> >>>> </page>
>
> >>>> On 16 Dec 2008, at 16:00, Ian Wood wrote:
>
> >>>>> Hi James.
>
> >>>>> Thank you! This is part of what I was looking for!
> >>>>> I've now redefined the <main-nav> tag so the navigation is now
> >>>>> fixed
> >>>>> without breaking the route to posts.
> >>>>> So the final part of my problem is how to get index.dryml to only
> >>>>> display "posts" instead of all of the models I have defined.
>
> >>>>> On Dec 16, 2:35 pm, James Garlick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>> You have removed the posts route, so you won't be able to
> >>>>>> navigate
> >>>>>> to /
> >>>>>> posts anymore. I don't think that is what you wanted.
>
> >>>>>> Customising the navigation is easy, all you have to do is
> >>>>>> redefine
> >>>>>> <main-nav>, there's an example of this in the cookbook
> >>>>>> app:http://github.com/tablatom/hobocookbook/tree/master/app/views/taglibs
> >>>>>> ...
>
> >>>>>> On 16 Dec 2008, at 13:47, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >>>>>>> Hello all.
>
> >>>>>>> I have what is probably an impossibly simple problem:
>
> >>>>>>> I have created a Hobo app with 4 models & controllers: post,
> >>>>>>> site,
> >>>>>>> sound & image
>
> >>>>>>> I want the tabbed navigation to show: home, site, sound, image
> >>>>>>> with
> >>>>>>> the "home" tab containing the "post" information.
>
> >>>>>>> I defined: auto_actions :all, :except => :index in the "posts"
> >>>>>>> controller to remove it from the tabs.
>
> >>>>>>> Now I need to redefine the app/views/front/index.dryml page so
> >>>>>>> that it
> >>>>>>> only shows "posts" as it currently shows "images" "sounds" and
> >>>>>>> "sites"
>
> >>>>>>> I understand that this is because it is repeating "front_models"
> >>>>>>> but
> >>>>>>> how do I call a specific model? I'm finding customising Hobo
> >>>>>>> quite
> >>>>>>> hard because lots of the information I have found on the topic
> >>>>>>> (Especially using DRYML and Rapid Tags) doesn't work! Very
> >>>>>>> confusing
> >>>>>>> for the newcomer.
>
> >>>>>>> Thanks.
>
> >>>>>>> Ian.
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