Rails Theme Support Plugin v 1.4

» 27 comments, published April 09, 2006 under Rails, Software, Theme Support

I've just checked in version 1.4 of the theme_support plugin. It contains quite a few bugfixes and updates. This version also integrates a couple of patches from akg and D.J. Vogel. Thanks guys! Version 1.4 adds:

Bugfixes, of course
Better Rails 1.1 support
ActionMailer theme support (experimental)
Updates to the themeitem liquid tag
Support for theme sub-directories
Fleshed out the Theme object to make is easy to list all of the installed Themes

As a little background, the plugin is based on the theme system developed by the Typo guys and adds support for:

Multiple concurrent themes
A rails generator for creating a theme folder structure
Rake tasks for pre-caching all of the themes for increased security and performance
Overriding views with theme-specific rhtml or liquid templates (based on early Typo code)
Forcing theme views to only allow liquid templates
Made supporting themes as easy as using layouts

To install the plugin, go to your rails application root folder and run:

  ./script/plugin install http://mattmccray.com/svn/rails/plugins/theme_support

or, for you Windows folks:

  ruby script\\plugin install http://mattmccray.com/svn/rails/plugins/theme_support

Look at the README in $/vendor/plugins/theme_support for more on implementing themes in your application.

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» 7 comments, published April 05, 2006 under Rails, Software

Update: OK, you got me. You should really use the built-in Rails helper, cycle.

<table class="Grid">
<% for user in @users %>
  <tr class="<%= cycle('Even', 'Odd') %>">
    <td>
      ... Stuff Here
    </td>
  </tr>
<% end %>
</table>

Here's the helper I've been using lately for zebra striping table rows:

def zebra_stripe( index, even_class="Even", odd_class="Odd" )
  index % 2 == 0 ? even_class : odd_class
end

In the view, you use the rubyesque .each_with_index like this:

<table class="Grid">
<% @users.each_with_index do |user, i| %>
  <tr class="<%= zebra_stripe(i) %>">
    <td>
      ... Stuff Here
    </td>
  </tr>
<% end %>
</table>

Simple as that!

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