[Nitro] Using Facets Builder

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On Feb 8, 5:00 am, "George Moschovitis" <george.moschovi... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> It is an algternative way to generate html for your action. Here are two
> examples:
>
>   # This is a programmatic renderer example. Just for
>   # demonstration purposes. Some people tend to like this
>   # aproach, dunno why, really.
>
>   def prender
>     build do |r|
>       labels = ['George', 'Stella', 'Renos']
>       r.html {
>         r.head {
>           r.title 'A simple test'
>         }
>         r.body {
>           10.times {
>             r.strong 'Hello World'
>             r.br
>             r.i 'Hello World'
>             r.br
>           }
>           r.select(:id => 'names') {
>             r.options :labels => labels, :selected => 1
>           }
>         }
>       }
>     end
>   end
>
>   # The same example in different flavour :)
>
>   def prender2
>     build do
>       labels = ['George', 'Stella', 'Renos']
>       html {
>         head {
>           title 'A simple test'
>         }
>         body {
>           10.times {
>             strong 'Hello World'
>             br
>             i 'Hello World222'
>             br
>           }
>           select(:id => 'names') {
>             options :labels => labels, :selected => 1
>           }
>         }
>       }
>     end
>   end
>
> on a nutchell, build just returns a builder instance. Btw, do not change
> your implementation to be compatible with this, just make build return your
> builder instance. But please make sure that your implementation can be used
> in the form helper (this helper, unlike the build command, is used very
> often)

got it. thanks. the form helper is a bit odd b/c it has a secondary
builder inside of it. so i'm going to think about that --i'd like to
avoid the double layer if it's possible.

T.