[ANN] link_to_magic

Posted by pratik
on Monday, July 02

Sorry for the lame name. I was gonna name it link_to_sexy initially, but changed my mind at the last moment ;-)

This plugin is inspired from Josh Peek’s stringgable_shortcuts & Geoff Buesing’s patch

To install : 


script/plugin install http://linktomagic.googlecode.com/svn/link_to_magic/

To use :

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<%= link_to @person %>

This is short for doing <%= link_to h(@person.name), @person %>. Here, a littile bit of ActiveRecord::Base.to_s magic is involved too. Check out this pastie to understand what/how it does this.

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<%= link_to_something @person %>

This is short for doing <%= link_to h(@person.something), @person %>.

Comments/suggestions welcome!

Look inside

Posted by pratik
on Sunday, July 01

“Don’t use the plugin you cannot write yourself. “

They are to save your time. Oh well, of course everyone is allowed an exception or two.

And I hate it when plugins do something like :

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module Something::ActiveRecord
  module Base
    def self.included(base)
      base.class_eval do
        base.extend(ClassMethods)
      end
    end

    module ClassMethods
      def references_table_name(column_name, options)
        stuff
      end
    end
  end
end
ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, Something::ActiveRecord::Base)

Instead of :

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module Something::ActiveRecord::Base
  def references_table_name(column_name, options)
    stuff
  end
end
ActiveRecord::Base.send(:extend, Something::ActiveRecord::Base)

Makes me not wanna use it.