Tag Archives: helpers

Yield a Block within Rails Helper Method with Multiple Content_tags Using Concat

To clean up some repetitive html coding in views, pass a block of text to a helper function which will wrap it for you the same way, each and every time. For example, I have a ‘help’ link which will toggle the display of a block of text if a link is clicked. I use [...]
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Rails Helper to Remove Leading Zero in 12 Hour Time Format

I can’t find a strftime() format that will output the hour without the leading zero. For instance 6:20 will be instead 06:20. This just looks a little sloppy. I created a datetime.rb intializer which will contain custom datetime formats for my application. # RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/datetime.rb Time::DATE_FORMATS[:date] = "%a %b %d, %Y" Time::DATE_FORMATS[:time] = "%I:%M%p" # ... Next I set up [...]
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Date and Time Helpers in Rails

Just for reference http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M001695 This post was created about ago
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Make Rails Lib Module Methods Available to Views

If you create a module in the lib/ directory of your Rails application you won’t have access to those methods in your views. If you don’t want to put those methods in a helper file, you need to add a method to your module that makes them available for you views like so… #in lib/my_module_name.rb module [...]
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Rails Prototype JS and TinyMCE Autosave

TinyMCE is a nice little WYSIWYG for text processing online. It uses iFrames and Javascript callbacks to manipulate textarea form fields. Using it with Rails can be somewhat problematic if you want to set up an observer on a field that TinyMCE is managing. The reason is that TinyMCE uses an iFrame and a callback [...]
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