HelperMethods

Simple helper methods that helps you to DRY.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'helper_methods'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install helper_methods

Usage

Included helpers:

error_messages_for @resource
flash_messages
mobile_device?
youtube('z8WXgoBGRb4')
youtube('z8WXgoBGRb4', 720, 480)
youtube_link('z8WXgoBGRb4')
icon('th-large icon-white')
active_link_to 'some string', some_path
attachment_url file, :style # return full url for attachment
qr_code_for 'url', 'size in pixels'

Youtube helpers

In your views, use:

youtube('z8WXgoBGRb4')

And it will become:

<iframe width='580' height='420'
    src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/z8WXgoBGRb4'
    frameborder='0'
    allowfullscreen>
</iframe>

You can pass width and height to.

youtube('z8WXgoBGRb4', 720, 480)

If you want the complete link, use:

youtube_link('z8WXgoBGRb4')

To return

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8WXgoBGRb4

Form helpers

In your forms use:

<%= error_messages_for @resource %>

And it will return:

<div class="alert alert-error">
  <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>
  <p>Error description 1</p>
  <p>Error description 2</p>
</div>

Optionaly, you can pass a css class for ul element:

<%= error_messages_for @resource, 'my_css_class' %>

And it will return:

<div class="my_css_class">
  <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>
  <p>Error description 1</p>
  <p>Error description 2</p>
</div>

View helpers

For using flash messages, in your layout file, do:

<%= flash_messages %>

And in your controller, use:

flash[:success] = "Your success message"
flash[:notice] = "Your alert message"
flash[:error] = "Your error message"
flash[:info] = "Your info message"

This will return

<p class="alert alert-success">Your success message is green</p>
<p class="alert alert-notice">Your alert message is yellow</p>
<p class="alert alert-error">Your error message is red</p>
<p class="alert alert-info">Your info message is blue</p>

In your views, use

icon('th-large icon-white')
icon('th-large icon-white', 'Some text')

This will return

<i class="th-large icon-white"></i>
<i class="th-large icon-white"></i> Some text

Made for twitter-bootstrap.

Mobile helpers

And this helps you to manage mobile views

mobile_device?

We have also a copy of active_link_to gem inside. If you want to use the original gem, please, visit: http://rubygems.org/gems/active_link_to

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