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Comment on Unobtrusive RESTful links in Rails by Rein Henrichs

Rein Henrichs — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:50:52 +0000

Will is right about styling a button tag (although it isn’t perfect, it’s usually good enough).

Even if that solution obsoletes this one for this specific use, I think this is a good example of how to evolve jQuery written in a procedural (but effective) way into modular (pluginized) code. The revision history of the final Gist is educational, including a few flubs by yours truly.

Comment on Unobtrusive RESTful links in Rails by Will Green

Will Green — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:31:39 +0000

CSS “trickery” vs JavaScript trickery. The button will still submit the form without JavaScript. The anchor will not. Thus, styling the button is the truly unobtrusive option.

Comment on Unobtrusive RESTful links in Rails by Zach Inglis

Zach Inglis — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:57:29 +0000

Jeff: Link to remote is for an AJAX call. I do not want it to be AJAX. I just want it to look right.

Will Green: The button is also handy but there is also a ton of trickery involved still.

Comment on Unobtrusive RESTful links in Rails by Will Green

Will Green — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:10:39 +0000

Second sentence should read:

That is, a button tag, not input type=”button”.

Comment on Unobtrusive RESTful links in Rails by Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:10:04 +0000

Just wondering, why wouldn’t link_to_remote work for this situation? Or maybe I’m missing something obvious…?

Thanks!

Comment on Unobtrusive RESTful links in Rails by Will Green

Will Green — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:09:04 +0000

Why not use an HTML Button? That is, a tag, not . You can style it to look like a link, it behaves like a button (because it is one), and no JavaScript is required.

See http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/ for an example of styling anchors and buttons to look alike.

Comment on Introducing Holler by James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:30:08 +0000

Hey Zack,

Wow. I’ve been looking for an open Twitter-like app for a while now, and Holler seems to be just the thing i need.

Might even fit in nicely with my Backpack-like “clone”, which if you look, you might find on GitHub…
Keep up the good work!

Comment on Quick Bash Tip: Less mouse when finding commands by Jeff Rafter

Jeff Rafter — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:47:55 +0000

Doesn’t “rake -T db” == “rake –tasks | grep db”? There are probably situations where you will want to pipe to grep still, but you could save some keystrokes. The | sh trick is nice though. Thanks Zach!

Comment on Introducing Crummy by Zach Inglis

Zach Inglis — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:37 +0000

Ed,

You should be able to do that.

However, I think it would probably work like this:
add_crumb(’My Crumb’, :except => “faqs”) {|c| c.send :home_path}

Comment on Introducing Crummy by Ed P

Ed P — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:08:48 +0000

Hi Zach, great plug in! The docs make it sound like you can do something like this:

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add_crumb(’My Crumb’) {|c| c.send :home_path}, :except => “faqs”
–

But Rails (2.1) gives me this error:

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SyntaxError (/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:215:in `load_without_new_constant_marking’: /app/controllers/my_controller.rb:5: syntax error, unexpected ‘,’, expecting kEND
add_crumb(’My Crumb’) {|c| c.send :home_path}, :except => “faqs”
^):
/vendor/gems/mack_ruby_core_extensions-0.1.28/lib/extensions/string.rb:26:in `constantize’
–

Do you know what the problem is?