The web designer is wrong in thinking that because you have separate edit and new views files that most of the page is different and not sharing a greate deal of code. They are ignoring the fact that most template view are views within views. Especially if you are using a partial - where you have a template within a template within a template.
The outer template is the layout. Into this is inserted the view. And into this is inserted the form partial. In effect you have: layout | view | partial | view | layout Where the partial is within the view which is within the layout. A classic onion skin type arrangement. With your two views what you effectively have are: layout | edit | form | edit | layout and layout | new | form | new | layout So by choosing a different view you are doing one big if. That is if view is 'edit' slot the 'edit' template in the middle layer, or if the view is 'new' slot the 'new' template into the middle layer. What's more this is far neater than using lots of if statements with a single template. You've separated the parts that need to be different into two separate files, so far less chance that you'll confuse the two actions : much less likely that something that should only occur in a new action will pop up in an edit action. You've also reduced the number of times you need to run the if. Just once - to decide which middle template to use, rather than at every point in the single template where a choice needs to be made. I think your developer is demonstrating a fundamental lack of understanding about how Rails templates work. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
