DomFor

Helper for creating HTML wrappers ActiveRecord objects

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'dom_for'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install dom_for

Usage

By default the helper dom_for creates tag div. But it can override, passing an additional argument tag: :span, for example:

<%# /app/views/users/index.html.erb %>
<%= dom_for User, class: 'customers', attribute_1: 'value_1', attribute_2: 'value_2', attribute_3: 'value_3' do %>
  <% @users.each do |user| %>
    <%= dom_for user, tag: :p, admin: user.admin, blocked: user.blocked do %>
      <%= content_tag(:span, user.name) %>
    <% end %>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

<div id="users" class="users customers" data-action="index" data-attribute-1="value_1" data-attribute-2="value_2" data-attribute-3="value_3">
  <p id="user_1" class="user" data-admin="true" data-blocked="false" data-object-id="1">
    <span>Mikhail</span>
  </div>
  <p id="user_2" class="user" data-admin="false" data-blocked="false" data-object-id="2">
    <span>Yulia</span>
  </div>
</div>

The first argument can be used as a model ActiveRecord:

<%# /app/views/users/index.html.erb %>
<%= dom_for User do %>
  <%= tag(:span) %>
<% end %>

<div id="users" class="users" data-action="index">
  <span />
</div>

And record ActiveRecord:

<%# /app/views/users/show.html.erb %>
<%= dom_for @user do %>
  <%= tag(:span) %>
<% end %>

<div id="user_1" class="user" data-action="show" data-object-id="1" />
  <span />
</div>

The second argument passed to additional html-attributes (is optional):

<%# /app/views/users/index.html.erb %>
<%= dom_for User class: 'clients', attribute_1: 'value_1', attribute_2: 'value_2' do %>
  <%= tag(:span) %>
<% end %>

<div id="users" class="users clients" data-action="index" data-attribute-1="value_1" data-attribute-2="value_2">
  <span />
</div>

The third argument, the helper dom_for, takes a block of code that will be wrapped in the tag <div> (is optional):

<%# /app/views/users/index.html.erb %>
<%= dom_for User, tag: :span %>

<span id="users" class="users" data-action="index" />

When defined instance variable with class name, the helper dom_for creates the additional html-attributes for this object:

<%# /app/views/users/show.html.erb %>
<% @user = User.last %>
<%= dom_for User do %>
  <%= tag(:span) %>
<% end %>

<div id="user_1" class="user" data-action="show" data-object-id="1" data-object="users">
  <span />
</div>

For each request, the helper dom_for creates additional attribute data-action, which will be equal to the method of the controller handling the request:

<%# /app/views/users/index.html.erb %>
<%= dom_for User do %>
  <%= tag(:span) %>
<% end %>

<div id="users" class="users" data-action="index">
  <span />
</div>

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request