Inherited Resources Views
Introduction
Using Inherited Resources is an excellent way to reduce the amount of repetition in your controllers. But what about views? A lot of times resources share the same views, so why not DRY 'em up using Inherited Resources Views!
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Difference to Other Seemly Similar Projects
If you are confused about the difference to some other similarly named projects, please read on.
Difference to Inherit Views
Inherit Views adds the ability to render views from parent controllers. It does not share views between different resources.
Difference to Inherited Views
Inherited Views tries to solve the same problem we're solving, but from a slightly different angle. It is more complex, requires Formtastic and WillPaginate, and it only generates erb templates. Inherited Resources Views on the other hand, is extremely simple, is library-agnostic (it only depends on Inherited Resources), and it supports both erb and haml templates.
Todo
- Add tests
- Make default views more elegant and perhaps customisable
Dependencies
Installation
As a Rails plugin:
rails plugin install git://github.com/fredwu/inherited_resources_views.git
As a gem:
gem install inherited_resources_views
Usage
It is extremely simple to use Inherited Resources Views. The only step you need to do after the installation is to customise the default views:
rails generate inherited_resources_views
This will generate a set of views in your app/views/inherited_resources
folder. Edit away!
Author
Copyright (c) 2010 Fred Wu (http://fredwu.me), released under the MIT license
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