great stuff !

I guess it’s a personal style thing, but isn’t using {}’s rather than do/end better in terms of representing the hierarchical nature of XML ? e.g.

rather than :

(I did have them spaced over several lines, but it gets messed with by the rouge cloth)

Superb.

Thank you for the docu!

What’s the easiest way to work on a page’s markup using Markaby (y’know, without anything else)?

Binding a folder with Markaby template files to Webrick (or Mongrel) and then editing and refreshing from there?

jakdak: yeah, a lot of people seem to prefer using braces in this context. looks neater.

Danno – thats a fair point. Maybe we need an .xhtml → .mab converter :p :o)

Don’t you mean .mab → .xhtml?

Hrmm… then I could tell vi to invoke that whenever I saved a .mab file and just look back and forth at the changes.

HTML preview?

TextMate users can add a command…

Save: Nothing
Command(s): ruby -rrubygems -e "require 'markaby'; puts Markaby::Builder.new { eval(STDIN.read) }"
Input: Entire Document
Output: Show as HTML
Scope Selector: source.ruby

Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about.

Now I, just have to figure out how to do it in vim.

thats very cool stuff

an .xhtml → .mab would be useful too :)

How do you add attributes to tags other than id and class?

JM: you can pass a hash after the text:

Nice, very, very nice

dvoodoo: Thank you sir!

It would be cool if you could change the charset used by head in its meta tag. builder.rb can check @helpers.headers[‘Content-Type’], but that only works if the header was explicitly set (with before_filter, for instance). I’m not sure how to get at the final Content-Type header Rails decides on, or even where Rails decides what that is.

I started building a page in Markaby (it’s taking me a while since I’m horrible at CSS ) and one thing I noticed that’d be nice is if Markaby had some kind of placeholder for the Rails helpers, I don’t know if that’s possible… or maybe I should just stick the dang file into a view and test through script/server…

Changes to the value of instance variables inside a Markaby template should be transported to the layout, like it happens with regular .rhtml templates.

Hmm. I’m wondering about the nicest way to html-escape stuff like the decription in self << category.description ?

Hmm again. Is there a way to set the class dynamically that’s nicer than doing eval "span.status.#{story.status} story.status" ?

Thijs: Fall back to:

 span story.status, :class => "status #{story.status}" 

To html escape stuff use the text method:

 div do
   text category.description
 end

Which is identical to:

 div category.description

J’ai un petite Question:

I have a method called “logged_in?” defined in mon ApplicationHelper.

When I use that method from inside un .mab file, I get cette petite error:

Vous avez any ideas what that is?

Looks very alien to moi

Dopey: that’s a bug! Should work ok now (as of rev 28)

Merci beaucoup monsieur

(I’m not actually french. I just . umm .. yeah you can see by my screename)

I was wondering if having the temporary variable is how it’s supposed to be done.

Maybe the first could be:

 td "#{name}#{extrainformation if condition}" 

A lot of times I’ll use RedCloth for formatting with breaks in it, italics, bold and the like.

I think you should consider adding an option to enable/disable the XML instruction that is inserted before the doctype – adding this will throw IE into quirks mode which is often what you don’t want.

trying to figure out how to use this neat blob of code. so far ive added:

require ‘markaby’ ActionView::Base::register_template_handler :mab, Markaby::Template

to my app (id love to try the plugin but the code server seems down and additionally goggles seems to not want to show the cache)

`@html do’ is not allowed as an instance variable name /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/markaby-0.3/lib/markaby/builder.rb:55:in `instance_variable_set’

went on a spelunking mission and found out i was delegating to the wrong class. of course now the SVN server has returned where all this is bleedingly obvious. next quest: write a regex, or manually convert? /me flips a coin…

Hi there, it would seem that as of rails edge version 3989 the plugin does not work, it just displays the source of the template rather than rendering it. Not sure why this is. It definitely seems to be version 3988 which is the last to work. I’ve tried previous and subsequent versions, subsequent ones don’t work, previous ones do.

Thanks

so attempting to get the instance variables that are created inside a .mab (as opposed to a rails controller) to exist in markaby partials this peculiar error message:

[””, ”\n”]

[””, ”\n”, “[\”\”, \”\\n\”] \n \n”, ””, ”\n”]

[””, ”\n”, “[\”\”, \”\\n\”] \n \n”, ””, ”\n”, “[\”\”, \”\\n\”, \”[\\\”\\\”, \\\”\\\\n\\\”] \\n \\n\”, \”\”, \”\\n\”] \n \n”, ””, ”\n”]

i think it says ‘i love you’, in escape-squeak..