Hi,
I don't know if I should post it here or on rails group, but since
rails doesn't support slices yet I've posted here :)
I love the idea of living in the reusable world. I would love to be
able to build application by just adding new "bricks". It would be
very generic, standarized (boring?), but hey! Sometimes I just want to
build app in a few hours, check if idea is good in practice and then
possibly extend it later.
Idea of slices and mountable apps is very good, but they must be build
with good design to easily merge them with other applications.
I know that there are plans to build admin interface API, but I would
like to make something different. Many of you probably used Radiant
and saw its extensions views API. There are many regions defined in
views, which allows to easily add some code to views in specified
place.
Something like (it's pseudo code):
<% region :comments do %>
<div id="comments">
.....
</div>
<% region :form do %>
<% form_for @comment do %>
....
<% end %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
And then something like:
region("comments.form").insertAfter("<p>Paragraph displayed after
form</p>")
I think that it would be very useful if I could take comments slice
and make comments-ratings slice which would plug ratings into comment
form and comments show without changing comments slice code. As long
as developer doesn't need to customize code it solves the problem out
of the box, without additional coding. And event if he wants to
customize it, he could just use this API. If all else fails, for
example he can't solve the problem without rewriting views, he could
copy views to the app like normally he can do now with slices and then
change it.
What do you think about that? Is it good idea? Are there any plans on
such API?
Another approach could be to take nokogiri, or another parser and plug
additional html by parsing generated views. Good sides of it is
ability to use it without defining "regions" by slice developer and ,
but I don't know if it's doable and maybe there would be to many
'gotchas'.
Cheers :)
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