I'm frustrated with DRYML and Rapid.
I can sense the power, but I can't figure out how to get at it.
Literally everything I try to do breaks, and I can't figure out why.
For instance, I have an array of model instances returned by find.
I'd like to try something like this:
<repeat with="&@all">
<collection/>
</repeat>
where @all=<Model>.find :all, populated in the controller. This seems
like a minimal change from what's in the Agility tutorial, and I can't
tell what's wrong, but I get a method missing exception on empty?.
Eventually I gave up on using <collection> entirely.
I want to modify the edit form so that it shows a textarea instead of
an input type='text' for one field, and there doesn't seem to be any
end to the work. I create the edit-page, I drop the field from the
field_list, and add the field back in; now it doesn't get put into the
table of label/field combos, and doesn't have a label.
According to the Rapid doc, it seems like I would get a textarea
automagically if I declared the field in my model as note instead of
string, but I shouldn't have to change the data layer to get the
presentation layer that I want. I feel like there's should be a
simpler way to do this, but for the life of me I can't find it in the
doc.
At this point I feel like I've killed 24hrs of duration and close to
10hrs of effort on simple functionality that would have taken one or
two minutes to do in erb or haml. Neither erb nor haml offers the
promise of modularity and nearly semantic markup that DRYML seems to,
but then, I've never had as much trouble making simple markup changes
before.
There's deep thinking about the structure of web apps embedded in
DRYML and Rapid, but I'm running out of time to leverage it.
Should I keep going? Does it take one or two days of absolute
paralysis before I'll start to be able to jump higher and farther than
ever before?
SK
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Skott Klebe
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