Special Fried Links¶ ↑

Install¶ ↑

gem install special_fried_links

(or use bundler)

Links but with extra tasty bits¶ ↑

• Ever seen code like this?

  <%= link_to('Edit', edit_something_path(something), :class => 'edit round', :title => "Edit record for #{record.owner}") %>

• Before you know it your templates start looking like php, and God knows we don’t need that.

• Obviously the best is to move it into a helper

  module SomethingHelper
    def link_to_edit_something(something)
      title = "Edit record for #{record.owner}"
      path = edit_something_path(something)
  
      return link_to('Edit', path, :class => 'edit round', :title => title)
    end
  end
  

• Nice neat and reusable.

So whats your point?¶ ↑

• This plugin allows you to change the calling code from this:

  <%= link_to_edit_something(something) %>

• to this:

  <%= link_to :edit => something %>

• Tasty hash syntax

The downside is that the implementation still needs to be:

module SomethingHelper
  def link_to_edit_something(something)
    title = "Edit record for #{record.owner}"
    path = edit_something_path(something)

    return link_to('Edit', path, :class => 'edit round', :title => title)
  end
end

Or does it?

Beyond 2000¶ ↑

It would be nicer if the implementation code was sexier.

Fat model auth¶ ↑

This gem is designed to be used with the Fat model auth gem, giving you the following pattern:

link_to :edit => @cabbage if allowed_to? :edit => @cabbage

Got ideas? fork it or send me a message.

Copyright © 2009 [Brent Greeff], released under the MIT license