I’ve recently moved one of the products I’m maintaining to a new server, because it wasn’t performing as well as it was supposed to. In the process I’ve spent some time tweaking the server and simplifying the setup, and the following is an overview over some of the tools I’ve found most useful.
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Something I keep coming across when working with Ruby on Rails view templates, is wrapping blocks of content in common DIV tags with certain properties, so I can easily style the application with CSS.
For example, a page can have multiple content boxes, and possibly a sidebar with a number of info boxes. What I used to do, was something like this:
<div id="sidebar">
<div class="infobox">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="content_box">
<%= render :partial => "table", :locals => {:people => @people} %>
</div>
Instead, by looking at the implementaton of the content_tag_for ActionView helper, I was able to find a way to do this:
<% sidebar do %>
<% infobox do %>
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<% end %>
<% end %>
<% content_box do %>
<%= render :partial => "table", :locals => {:people => @people} %>
<% end %>
