Comments on: New DRYML – Part 1

By: bronson

bronson — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:25:18 +0000

FWIW, append, prepend, before, and after have all gone away in 0.6.2+. And it seems like mergeattrs, mergeparams, and merge all do pretty much the same thing now.

By: Thomas Fee

Thomas Fee — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:34:29 +0000

Can't wait to try it out, but I'm a neophyte with this. After running script/plugin install svn://hobocentral.net/hobo/tags/rel_0.6-pre1, I didn't know what to do to "hook it in". I tried script/generate hobo --add-routes, but just got a NoMethodError.

Tom, can you provide a couple of hints?

By: Stuart Rackham

Stuart Rackham — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:09:07 +0000

Tom – you are right, I just needed to read merge_attrs as a verb not a noun.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:18:06 +0000

Finn – I’d suggest sticking with the 0.5.3 syntax for now and waiting for the new stuff to stabilise – it’s going to be a bit experimental for a while (like the whole of Hobo!)

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:06:33 +0000

Stuart - the reason for having the word 'merge' in there is that it kind of equivalent to something like (in Ruby):

some_method({:foo => baa}.merge(my_options))

I think attrs by itself is a bit less clear. Especially given that you can use it without a RHS: which means "merge any additional attributes passed to the tag I'm defining". That's by far the most common usage.

hachaboob - soon :-)

By: hachaboob

hachaboob — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:21:23 +0000

When will Rapid generate valid [new] DRYML tags?

By: Stuart Rackham

Stuart Rackham — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:02:24 +0000

OK the, comment markup drops text in angle brackets, so without them should have read:

... differentiates them from the def attrs ...

Apologies for the confusion.

By: Stuart Rackham

Stuart Rackham — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:59:29 +0000

My previous comment should have read:

... differentiates them from the attrs ...

By: Stuart Rackham

Stuart Rackham — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:35:56 +0000

Hi Tom, the templates are a hugely powerful simplification, I guess you had one of those eureka moments.

Just one thing, is merge_attrs any clearer than xattrs? Why not just attrs? The context clearly differentiates them from the attrs and they both do deal with the notion of setting attributes.

Looking forward to Part 2.

By: Finn Higgins

Finn Higgins — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:15:51 +0000

Looking very good, Tom. Can't wait for part 2...

I suppose the question on everybody's mind is when this is going to make it into a release proper? I'm building something on Hobo at the moment, so an approximate release date is going to affect my decision to pull down the preview and work to the new DRYML syntax or stick with 0.5.3 and migrate to the new syntax after launch...