A set of view helpers I find myself using in most Rails applications.
cd my_rails_app script/plugin install git://github.com/zeke/common_view_helpers.git
# Use words if within the last week, otherwise use date # Show year if not this year time_ago_in_words_or_date(date,options={}) # Output an easily styleable key-value pair info_pair(label, value) # Give this helper an array, and get back a string of <li> elements. # The first item gets a class of first and the last, well.. last. # This makes it easier to apply CSS styles to lists, be they ordered or unordered. # http://zeke.tumblr.com/post/98025647/a-nice-little-view-helper-for-generating-list-items convert_to_list_items(items) # This works just like link_to, but with one difference.. # If the link is to the current page, a class of 'active' is added link(name, options={}, html_options={}) # Absolute path to an image image_url(source) # e.g. http://localhost:3000, or https://productionserver.com base_url # Generate a list of column name-value pairs for an AR object list_model_columns(obj)
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