I'm no expert at Rails, Craig, but I've been writing working Rails code for about 8 months now on more than a few projects. I've read Agile Development more than once, and have over the course of time watched scores of Rails webcasts.
If you have a solution to my question, I'd appreciate it. I don't think you understand the question. I need the user to generate their own templates. If I was hard coding all the templates for them, this would be cake. On Feb 27, 12:47 pm, Craig White <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 10:12 -0800, Dudebot wrote: > > Thanks, Colin! I'd like to give the user the flexibility to make a > > template that interpolates objects within it. Sort of like a mail > > merge. The templates are stored as text entries in a database. The > > idea is, say you have something like this as a text entry in the > > database > > > Dear Mr. <%= @person.lastname %>, > > We understand that your favorite programming language is <%= > > @person.language %>. > > > Then, if the user was accessing the person show form for @person 2 > > with lastname Smith and language Ruby, it would display > > > Dear Mr. Smith, > > We understand that your favorite programming language is Ruby. > > > I am so open to ideas :) Right now I'm imagining building an XML > > parser, and identifying the fields as tags, then replacing them with > > the appropriate objects, but I was wondering if there was a more > > direct (or better) way. > > ---- > I think you need to start with another rails beginner tutorial because > this is very beginner stuff and easily accomplished just as you said and > without any need for xml parsers or sophisticated methods at all. > > Craig > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. -- 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.
