Archive for March, 2009

dm-is-remixable and overwritten property accessors

March 31st, 2009 •
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I just stumbled across some weirdness in dm-is-remixable. Seems like overwritten property writers work, whereas overwritten property readers don’t … hmm …

merb-helpers should produce valid html id attributes

March 25th, 2009 •
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A Ticket for this issue can be found here …

# stick this in init.rb's before_app_loads block
# until this issue maybe gets resolved in merb-helpers
module Merb::Helpers::Form::Builder
  class Form < Base
    def update_unbound_controls(attrs, type)
      if attrs[:name] && !attrs[:id]
        # this makes sure that the '[]' characters which are not valid
        # in html ids, don't get copied over. furthermore, the trailing '_'
        # character makes sure that this id stays unique (particularly
        # necessary for additionally generated hidden inputs as they
        # are generated for checkboxes for example). the 'to_s' call
        # is necessary in order for the merb testsuite to run. obviously
        # there are some tests that use the Symbol :truez as a name
        # attribute, and since Symbol#gsub is private, tests fail if the
        # name attr isn't always converted to a String before use.
        attrs.merge!(:id => attrs[:name].to_s.gsub(/(\[|\])/, '_'))
      end
      case type
      when "text", "radio", "password", "hidden", "checkbox", "file"
        add_css_class(attrs, type)
      end
      super
    end
  end
end