Tony Pitale | tpitale.com

Hey, it's Sunday and I've got a blog post on dividing up views and templates in Rails on #ruby #rails

Dividing Our Views and Templates in Rails 2013-02-03 TL;DR: I created a gem called simplest_view that makes it easy to move logic out of your Rails templates and into a class, in a conventional way. You can see it on Github at tpitale/simplest_view Feel free to start using it, but read on to see how I made it. Is it a View or a Template? Rails views are actually ERB templates. However, they're found under app/views. I think this manifests as a problem when our ERB templates grow in complexity as: more data (in more instance variables) is passed to the ERB template logic is embedded within the template none of this is sufficiently tested My goal was to be able to put my code in views, rather than letting my templates handle logic. That meant I needed to split the view from the ERB templates, so I could have a real view object. The template's only responsibility should be th...

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