From mike.pence at gmail.com  Tue Feb 19 14:05:52 2008
From: mike.pence at gmail.com (Mike Pence)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:05:52 -0500
Subject: [Cells-talk] Partials?
Message-ID: <d8ee51740802191105n39c0c0d4y32d804eda822ba26@mail.gmail.com>

So, I have been using Cells with great success these last several
days. I have a situation where I need multiple cell states share the
same logic, and I seem to recall that there is no such thing as
partials in Cells. Any recommended approaches for this?

Also, I have InfoQ.com on board for a Cells article as a feature in
the coming weeks. That should be some great exposure.

Best,
Mike Pence

From Peter.Bex at solide-ict.nl  Wed Feb 20 03:19:39 2008
From: Peter.Bex at solide-ict.nl (Peter Bex)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:19:39 +0100
Subject: [Cells-talk] Partials?
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:05:52PM -0500, Mike Pence wrote:
> So, I have been using Cells with great success these last several
> days. I have a situation where I need multiple cell states share the
> same logic, and I seem to recall that there is no such thing as
> partials in Cells. Any recommended approaches for this?

If I understand your problem correctly, you want to have some place
where you can put logic that is used by more than one state.
Perhaps simply creating a protected method in your Cell's class would
do.  If the cell states are spread across several Cells you could do
one of two things, depending what fits your domain best:
1. Create a module in which you put the protected methods and include it in
    the cells which need the shared code.
2. Create a subclass from Cell::Base, put the shared logic there and
    make your cells inherit from that (abstract) cell.

On the other hand, your use of the term 'partials' seems to suggest
you're looking for a way to share view code.  But that would just be
handled by Cells, wouldn't it?  You can render cells recursively, so
if you have a FooCell with state some_state, you can simply put a
render_cell :foo, :some_state
call in the view for some_state.  Of course, you'll need a recursion
termination condition or this will cause a stack overflow :)

HTH

> Also, I have InfoQ.com on board for a Cells article as a feature in
> the coming weeks. That should be some great exposure.

This is excellent news!  Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Peter Bex
Solide ICT - http://www.solide-ict.nl

From apotonick at gmail.com  Wed Feb 20 07:42:41 2008
From: apotonick at gmail.com (Nick Sutterer)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:42:41 +0100
Subject: [Cells-talk] Fwd:  Partials?
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nick Sutterer <apotonick at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 20, 2008 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Cells-talk] Partials?
To: Mike Pence <mike.pence at gmail.com>


> So, I have been using Cells with great success these last several
> days. I have a situation where I need multiple cell states share the
> same logic, and I seem to recall that there is no such thing as
> partials in Cells. Any recommended approaches for this?
>
this sounds like you want to render another cell state (which contains
the shared logic) instead of rendering a partial (as peter said).

> Also, I have InfoQ.com on board for a Cells article as a feature in
> the coming weeks. That should be some great exposure.
>
this is great! cool!


nick

From mike.pence at gmail.com  Mon Feb 25 10:55:15 2008
From: mike.pence at gmail.com (Mike Pence)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:55:15 -0500
Subject: [Cells-talk] Helpers?
Message-ID: <d8ee51740802250755j68fbfd5dn938dde74c9888f6a@mail.gmail.com>

Hey guys,

I ran into a situation where I need to use a Helper's method in my
code, but do not recall where don't recall how to use them in Cells.
Any help appreciated.

Also, though this was interesting but have not had time to read it:
http://cfis.savagexi.com/articles/2008/02/11/reusing-rails-controllers-is-a-good-thing

Best,
Mike Pence

From mike.pence at gmail.com  Mon Feb 25 11:03:35 2008
From: mike.pence at gmail.com (Mike Pence)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:03:35 -0500
Subject: [Cells-talk] Helpers?
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Nevermind, found it here: http://cells.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html

However, it does not seem to be working, since the code I need is in
ApplicationHelper and it is inaccessible in my cell. So, once I put:

helper :application

in my code, and it works. So, this is a bug, or at least is
inconsistent with the docs. ApplicationHelper needs to be included
automatically. Can we create a ticket for that in our bug tracking
database? Where and how could I do that?

Best,
Mike Pence

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Mike Pence <mike.pence at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
>  I ran into a situation where I need to use a Helper's method in my
>  code, but do not recall where don't recall how to use them in Cells.
>  Any help appreciated.
>
>  Also, though this was interesting but have not had time to read it:
>  http://cfis.savagexi.com/articles/2008/02/11/reusing-rails-controllers-is-a-good-thing
>
>  Best,
>  Mike Pence
>

From apotonick at gmail.com  Tue Feb 26 05:23:49 2008
From: apotonick at gmail.com (Nick Sutterer)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:23:49 +0100
Subject: [Cells-talk] Helpers?
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	<d8ee51740802250803y722090b5oc525a1722a381ac7@mail.gmail.com>
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hey ho mike!


> Nevermind, found it here: http://cells.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html
>
i know, i know, we need more docs. i decided to create a Cells
Cookbook, since cookbooks rule. you can just start writing down
examples instead of thinking HOW to arrange your 20-page tutorial. any
help appreciated.

>  However, it does not seem to be working, since the code I need is in
>  ApplicationHelper and it is inaccessible in my cell. So, once I put:
>
>  helper :application
>
this is really strange. if you have a look at
Cell::Base#helper_modules, you can see that we include the
ApplicationHelper by default. i will investigate on that. what YOU
want is to include the "official rails ApplicationHelper", which is
included in every rails view?

>  in my code, and it works. So, this is a bug, or at least is
>  inconsistent with the docs. ApplicationHelper needs to be included
>  automatically. Can we create a ticket for that in our bug tracking
>  database? Where and how could I do that?
>
tickets can be created at rubyforge. i guess you need an account, but
i'm not sure.


cheers,
nick



>  Best,
>  Mike Pence
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Mike Pence <mike.pence at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hey guys,
>  >
>  >  I ran into a situation where I need to use a Helper's method in my
>  >  code, but do not recall where don't recall how to use them in Cells.
>  >  Any help appreciated.
>  >
>  >  Also, though this was interesting but have not had time to read it:
>  >  http://cfis.savagexi.com/articles/2008/02/11/reusing-rails-controllers-is-a-good-thing
>  >
>  >  Best,
>  >  Mike Pence
>  >
>  _______________________________________________
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>  Cells-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/cells-talk
>

From Peter.Bex at solide-ict.nl  Tue Feb 26 07:41:13 2008
From: Peter.Bex at solide-ict.nl (Peter Bex)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:41:13 +0100
Subject: [Cells-talk] Helpers?
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:23:49AM +0100, Nick Sutterer wrote:
> >  However, it does not seem to be working, since the code I need is in
> >  ApplicationHelper and it is inaccessible in my cell. So, once I put:
> >
> >  helper :application
> >
> this is really strange. if you have a look at
> Cell::Base#helper_modules, you can see that we include the
> ApplicationHelper by default. i will investigate on that. what YOU
> want is to include the "official rails ApplicationHelper", which is
> included in every rails view?

Are you on trunk?  I think we made some changes to the helper code after
making release 1.0

Cheers,
Peter Bex
Solide ICT - http://www.solide-ict.nl