to answer your first question, hiding the comments by default is easy. simply add a "display:none" to the CSS for the divs you wish to be hidden initially.
On Mar 8, 12:59 am, vishy <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been working on developing a blog site using rails. This is my > first rails application, hence I am fairly new to rails development. > Over the past week, I have encountered a few issues and hence I am > putting them all in one post here. Please feel free to comment on any > of the below mentioned issues: > > 1) On my blog post I have my blog entries and their respective > comments. The visibility of the comments is toggled using a link. When > my blog page loads, the comments are being displayed by default. > However I want to hide the comments on page load and show them only > when the "Comments" link is clicked. I am using rjs to toggle the > visibility. Is there a way to hide the comments on page load? The code > that I have is shown below: > > //Comments link: (blog.html.erb) > <%= link_to_remote pluralize(blogentry.comments.size, 'Comment'), :url > => { :action => 'show_comments', :entry => blogentry}%> > > //RJS Templates : (show_comments.js.rjs) > entry = params[:entry] > page.visual_effect :toggle_blind, "Comment_box_#{entry}" , :duration > => 0.5, :fps => 50 > > 2) I have also tried to categorize and archive the blog entries. For > that I am calling custom find methods. They are working fine and > everything is being done in the same method in the controller. Also I > have a single view file. However I would like to know if there is a > better way of doing this. Should I perform the find in separate > methods and have separate view files for each find (like separate view > for archives and categories)? Although I don't think that would be a > DRY implementation. The code is shown below: > > //page controller > def blog > @category = Category.find_by_name(params[:category_name]) > if (params[:category_name]) > @blogentries = Blogentry.find_all_by_category_id(@category.id) > elsif (params[:month] && params[:year] ) > start = Time.mktime(params[:year], params[:month]) > @blogentries = Blogentry.find(:all, :conditions => ['created_at> ? and > created_at < ?', start, start.next_month]) > > else > @blogentries = Blogentry.find(:all) > end > end > > //blog.html.erb > <% for blogentry in @blogentries %> > <div id="blog_entry"> > <div id="blog_heading"> > <%= h blogentry.title %> > </div> > <div id="blog_content"> > <%=h blogentry.body %> > </div> > </div> > <% end %> > > //layout.html.erb (only the sidebar code with Archives and > Categories). > //This file provides the category, month and year required for > categorizing and archiving //respectively. > > <div id="sidebar"> > <div class = "side_content"> > <div> CATEGORIES </div> > <% for category in @categories%> > <% @entry = Blogentry.findforCatergoryid(category.id) %> > <%= link_to category.name.upcase + "(#[email protected]})", > category_entries_path(category.name)%> > <% end%> > </div> > <div class = "side_content"> > <div> ARCHIVES </div> > <% @entries_by_month.each do |month, entry|%> > <%= link_to month.strftime('%B %Y').upcase, > archive_path > (month.strftime('%Y'), month.strftime('%m'))%> > <% end%> > </div> > </div> > > Any help here will be be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > vishy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
