Markaby Rules

May 6th, 2006

I’ve been playing with Markaby the past few nights. I love it! I’m in the camp that would rather write everything in Ruby rather than mix with html and ERb. I find reading this code:

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error_messages_for 'laptop'

p do 
  label "Name", :for => "laptop_name"
  text_field 'laptop', 'name'
end

div do
  label "Condition", :for => "laptop_condition"
end
div do 
  collection_select("laptop", "condition_id", @conditions, "id", "description")
end

much easier and enjoyable than this code:

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<%= error_messages_for 'laptop' %>

<p><label for="laptop_name">Name</label><br/>
<%= text_field 'laptop', 'name'  %></p>

<div><label for="laptop_condition">Condition</label>
<div>
<%=  collection_select("laptop", "condition_id", @conditions, "id", "description") %>
</div>
</div>

The ERb code is much noisier and therefore harder to read. The Markaby code is cleaner and more elegant.

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1 Response to “Markaby Rules”

  1. _ugly Says:
    May 25th, 2006 at 10:13 AM i completely agree, this is good stuff.

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