Comments on: link_to as a block helper

By: nullstyle

nullstyle — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:04:59 +0000

The only advantage of my method is that it provides the same benefit as any use of aliasmethodchain: It doesn't hide the original method, and it makes it explicit what pattern you are using.

Please note you can further reduce the meat of my code to:

 
  def linktowithblock(args, &block) 
    return linktowithoutblock(args) unless block 
    concat(linktowithoutblock(capture(&block), args), block.binding) 
  end

Basically the same, just a little different personal style on the conditional.

By: nicolash

nicolash — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:14:04 +0000

A general question: When and why should we go the way to just override in the helpers: http://opensoul.org/2006/08/04/tip-overriding-lin... and when should we go your way?

If you don't use your code to transform it into a plug-in, where are the advantages to go the (more verbose/complicated) way

By: nullstyle

nullstyle — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:52:05 +0000

Thanks meekish, I've fixed the markup.

By: meekish

meekish — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:09:15 +0000

Your example code blocks are invisible in Safari 3.