On Sunday, 9 September 2012 00:49:30 UTC-4, John Merlino wrote: > > Without going to detail, I'll just show important code: > > text field is passed the name of object, could be a symbol (:user) or > string ("user[]"). method is datbase attribute or virtual attribute. > the options hash, among other things, includes the object if persisted > (e.g. @user). > def text_field(object_name, method, options = {}) > Tags::TextField.new(object_name, method, self, options).render > end > > TextField doesn't have initialize, it calls on super which is Base, > and we create some instance variables holding our object information > and so forth: > class Base > ... > > def initialize(object_name, method_name, template_object, > options = {}) > @object_name, @method_name = object_name.to_s.dup, > method_name.to_s.dup > @template_object = template_object > > @object_name.sub!(/\[\]$/,"") || @object_name.sub!(/\[\]\] > $/,"]") > @object = retrieve_object(options.delete(:object)) > @options = options > ... > > We call render on text field object > def render > options = @options.stringify_keys > options["size"] = options["maxlength"] unless options.key? > ("size") > options["type"] ||= field_type > options["value"] = options.fetch("value") > { value_before_type_cast(object) } unless field_type == "file" > options["value"] &&= ERB::Util.html_escape(options["value"]) > add_default_name_and_id(options) > > [snip]
> > and thats pretty much it. Wheres the name attribute and its value > appended to the returned string from render? > add_default_name_and_id is doing the work here. --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/CaPjS7bHQWoJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.