Thanks, This is good concise explanation. I do have the book you suggests, but haven't had the time to go deep enough in it. Furthermore, I went back to it to check what it says about helper creation, but didn't quite understood
Cheers, Christophe Le 9 mars 2010 à 15:08, Andy Jeffries a écrit : > On 9 March 2010 13:30, Christophe Decaux <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, > That's a good start. > > Any advice where to start looking for how to make a helper method ? > > I'd recommend Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers book). > I looked online but couldn't see a lot that was easy to learn from. > > Basically a helper method is a method that is available in your views and > (can be) used for generating markup that would be repetitive otherwise. > > For example you could have something this: > > application_helper.rb: > module ApplicationHelper > def christophe_link_action(image_filename) > link_to_remote (image_tag(image_filename, :size=>"16x16"), >> >> :url=>"/message/#{message.id}/hide", >> :method=>"post", >> >> :before=>"Effect.Fade(this.parentNode.parentNode, {duration: >> 0.5}); >> >> Effect.BlindUp(this.parentNode.parentNode, {duration: 0.5})") > end > end > > Then in your view just do: > > <%= christophe_link_action("foo.png") %> > <%= christophe_link_action("bar.png") %> > > Does that make things any clearer? If not, I'd recommend the book I > mentioned earlier (or post back with questions). > > Cheers, > > > Andy > > -- > 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. -- 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.
