This plugin fixes the problem of how to organize the parts of your app that are re-used like blocks across pages, like those in side-bars and top-bars. It allows you to create render-points where content can be inserted in views.
In short it allows one to set body_parts (variables that can be yielded in views) from controllers. Also since Rails components are notoriously slow, this is a nice alternative. After installing the plugin you can declare body parts in your controllers (most often only in controllers/application.rb) with: body_parts :top, :sidebar Then you can fill them up in the same, or in inheriting controllers by passing method syms to body-name_body, just like Rails filters: top_body :navigation_bar The return value of these methods will be added to the body. In the view you can display the body with <= yield :sidebar_body %> resp. <= yield :top_body %>. As you can see Body Builder supports multiple, user-defined bodies. This contrary to the Simple Sidebar plugin. See the full Body Builder docs for code examples and installation instructions: http://www.logilogi.org/pub/doc/plugins/body_builder/ Body Builder is under the Affero GPL, and developed by the LogiLogi Foundation (http://foundation.logilogi.org) greetings, Wybo Wiersma --- ::Student: - Informatiekunde (computer linguistics, IR, webtech), History and Philosophy - Member of the Center for Metahistory Groningen (http://www.rug.nl/let/cmg) ::Free Software and Open Source Developer: - Active in the LogiLogi Foundation (http://foundation.logilogi.org) - http://www.LogiLogi.org, Cumulative, shared commenting, publication and idea sharing: Where insight comes together... - ComLinToo, a computational linguistics toolset written in Perl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
