There’s a fair few reactions to Hobo out there on the big wide Internets by now, and it’s interesting to see people’s interpretations. I suppose it’s pretty obvious that people are going to jump to conclusions when I’ve only given a brief glimpse of what Hobo is about. I just wanted to take a quick moment to clear a few things up. [Update: this turned from a "quick moment" into a fairly comprehensive overview of what Hobo can do :-)]
I owe you a screencast on customising the whole UI of the POD demo, but strictly speaking I’m on holiday at the moment :-) I’m just stealing a few moments on the laptop here and there to check the site stats and respond to any comments.
So to keep you going, I thought I’d better rattle off a few quick tips on customising a page, seeing as it’s a total mystery at the moment. We’ll customise the view of a category page in the POD demo.
OK, next up we’re going to see what Hobo brings to the Ajax table. In a nutshell — the ability to refresh fragments of a page without pushing them out into separate partial files. To see how that works, let’s knock up a quick demo application.
DRYML has a nifty little feature called implicit context. Despite the title of this post, this feature has got nothing directly to do with ActiveRecord. Implicit context makes it a lot easier to populate your pages with data, and in Rails that means ActiveRecord models. So this post is about getting your models into your views.
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