Link and form

Version

This document applies to Rubricks-0.5.x

Rails has helper tags to render hyperlink as follow.

  • link_to
  • link_to_remote

Rubricks has other helper tags as follow, these inherit link_to_remote.

  • link_to_main
  • link_to_self

For example, these two helper tags render same html tags. 

1. <%= link_to_remote 'link', :url => {:controller => '/sample/index', :action => 'show'}, :update => 'rubricks_partition_m' %>
2. <%= link_to_main 'link', :url => {:controller => '/sample/index', :action => 'show'} %>

To obtain similar behavior, you can write using link_to as follows. But overhead because of rendering other partition. 

3. <%= link_to 'link', :controller => '/sample/index', :main => '_show' %>

Additionally, using link_to_self in some block, update itself. 

4. <%= link_to_self 'update itself', :url => {:controller => '/sample/index', :action => 'show'} %>

Form

Rails has helper tags to render form as follow.

  • form_tag
  • form_remote_tag

Rubricks has other helper tags as follow, these inherit form_remote_tag.

  • form_main_tag
  • form_self_tag

For example, these two helper tags render same html tags. 

1. <%= form_remote_tag :url => {:controller => '/sample/index', :action => 'update'}, :update => 'rubricks_partition_m' %>
2. <%= form_main_tag :url => {:controller => '/sample/index', :action => 'update'} %>

You can write as follows as well as link_to. 

3. <%= form_tag :controller => '/sample/index', :action => 'update' %>

====================================================================
def update
  ......
  redirect_to :controller => '/sample/index', :main => '_main'
end

Additionally, using form_self_tag in some block, update itself. 

4. <%= form_self_tag 'update itself', :url => {:controller => '/sample/index', :action => 'show'} %>

Paginate

Rails has helper tag to render paginate links.

  • pagination_links

Rubricks has other helper tag as follow, this is like the relation of "link_to_remote" and "link_to". 

<%= pagination_remote_links(@pages, :params => {:update => 'rubricks_partition_m', :url => {:controller => '/sample/index', :action => 'show'}}) %>