Shards developers,
I'm about to make a major change to the Shards extension's API and I
want a little feedback from those who are using it. This is not a
breaking change, per se, but a behavioral one. Let me set it up for you.
Right now, the views (especially new/edit) for the Admin::PageController
are broken into a bajillion little pieces so that we can have many
points of insertion into the template. This is great for flexibility,
but results in a bunch of tiny files and the need to dig through them to
find the proper region when you want to insert something. I'd like to
dramatically reduce the number of partials that ship with the extension.
The solution to this, which I have working, is to move the partials back
into one (or a few) files and provide a way to specify defaults, but
still allow overriding of the partials in the file system. Here's an
example of what I'm talking about. Normally, when you render a region,
a line like this exists in the template:
<%= render_region :my_region %>
Via the 'admin' object, you would populate this region with partial
names, which would be rendered from the file system in the order
specified. If this region has default partials, as do the ones that
come with Shards, they would instead be specified inline, where
appropriate. Let's say "my_region" has default partials of "profile"
and "sidebar"; this is how you would specify them (notice the removal of
the =):
<% render_region :my_region do |my| %>
<% my.profile do %>
<div id="profile">...</div>
<% end %>
<% my.sidebar do %>
<div id="sidebar">...</div>
<% end %>
<% end %>
This adds a bit of weight and noise to the templates, but significantly
cuts down the number of partials. Regions that don't have any default
partials could still be rendered in the manner shown in the first
example (with the =). Let me know how you feel about this change.
Sean
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