Views
Ruby on Rails includes a view system that generates the pages rendered by the browser. For each URL that is processed, a particular view file is rendered. This view can be wrapped in a special view, called a layout, that provides the overall page structure. Parts of the view can be provided by partials, which are view files that are included by reference in other view files and allow common components to be used without duplication.
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BBCode with Ruby on Rails, Part 1
Implementing the BBCode markup in a commenting system for Rails.
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editable_content_tag: The in_place_editor for Rails 2.0
Describes an approach to creating an in-place editor that is compatible with RESTful controllers, using JSON to transfer data.
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A Rails HOWTO: Simplify In-Place Editing with Script.aculo.us
Building our own in-place editor helpers to gain more control than with the standard Rails helpers.
- Using Rails in_place_editor and in_place_editor_field
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Textile (markup language)
This Wikipedia article includes links to Textile implementations in many languages.
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fieldWithErrors
How to fix Rails' form markup so that error fields are wrapped in a span, as they should be, rather than a div, as the Rails code does.
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Documentation (5)
- Textile Reference
A comprehensive guide to Textile markup syntax.
- Ajax In Place Editor
Scriptaculous in-place editor widget documentation.
- Browser-based Textile renderer
Want to try out a textile expression? Enter it on this page and it will show you the resulting HTML markup.
- Textile 2.0
Quick reference and a web-based Textile-to-HTML converter for testing.
- How to use collection_select with HABTM
Documents the simple but obscure syntax to make a multiple-select select widget work properly with a HABTM association.
Software (20)
- ActiveScaffold
ActiveScaffold is a plugin that dynamically generates Ajax-based scaffolds that understand model associations and are customizable via configuration statements.
- acts_as_textiled
Plugin that makes using Textile as simple as it can be. The specified model field is always interpreted as Textile when displayed, except when in a form (for editing).
- Better Partials Plugin for Ruby on Rails
A nice simplification for rendering partials.
- BlogFish: tooltip.js
Javascript function to add a tooltip when the user hovers over certain items. Uses Prototype and includes Rails helpers.
- in_place_editing plugin does not work with CSRF protection and does not evaluate the RJS response
Rails Trac ticket describing the CSRF problem with the existing in_place_editor and a proposed patch.
- RedCloth [Textile Humane Web Text for Ruby]
Ruby gem for translating Textile markup to HTML.
- /plugins/in_place_editing
The “official”, but currently flawed, in-place editing plugin for Rails.
- activecalendar
- Custom Scaffold for Rails
A plugin that replaces the view code produced by the standard Rails scaffold with a view that explicitly references each column, rather than iterating over all the columns, so it is much easier to customize.
- FCKEditor Plugin for Rails
This plug-in simplifies the use of the FCKeditor, an open-source, JavaScript, WYSIWYG HTML editor, in Rails applications.
- Improved in_place_editor
- In_place_controls
- MasterView
An alternative template engine for Rails applications.
- MasterView™ - Rails-optimized (x)html friendly template engine
- Pretty Accessible Forms
Rails plugin to implement the pretty accessible forms design from A List Apart.
- Put Flexigrid on Rails
Plugin for Flexigrid JavaScript library, which enables grids with “click on header” sorting, pagination, and more.
- SeeSaw | Rails Widgets
- super_in_place_controls plug-in for Rails 2.0
- Textile Editor Helper
Plugin that shows a simple toolbar over Textile text-entry areas, so you can, for example, click a Word-like “B” icon for bold and it will wrap the selected text in asterisks. (Display is still not wysiwyg, however.)
- WYM on Rails
Plugin for integrating the WYM editor into Rails.
Cheat Sheets (2)
- RJS Demistified With Pretty Colors!
RJS cheat sheet
- Textile Quick Reference
Screencasts (20)
- Railscasts - Complex Forms Part 1
- Railscasts - Complex Forms Part 2
- Railscasts - Simplify Views with Rails 2.0
- RJS Templates
- Railscasts - AJAX with RJS
- Railscasts - All About Layouts
- Railscasts - Blocks in View
- Railscasts - Cleaning Up the View
- Railscasts - Complex Forms Part 3
- Railscasts - Custom Helper Modules
- Railscasts - Customize Field Error
- Railscasts - Debugging RJS
- Railscasts - HABTM Checkboxes
- Railscasts - Layouts and content_for
- Railscasts - Looping Through Flash
- Railscasts - Markaby in Helper
- Railscasts - Multibutton Form
- Railscasts - RJS Tips
- Railscasts - Simple Search Form
- Railscasts - Update through Checkboxes
Groups (1)
- Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs
Forum for discussion of Prototype, Scriptaculous, and other Rails spinoffs.
Top Blogs
- CSRF - An underestimated attack method
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WebORB Blog
Blog from the authors of the WebORB, a Rails plugin for connecting to Flash and Flex user interfaces. (Also available for PHP and other server-side platforms.)
