Comments on: TabsOnRails graduated from beta

By: Simone Carletti

Simone Carletti — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:44:57 +0000

Christian,
what you need is a client-side JavaScript effect. Have a look at http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tabs

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:42:01 +0000

I was wondering if you have any recommendations for implementing dynamic loading with this? I am attempting to use it to load different tabs of text within a page. We have most of it working but it re loads the page when you click on a different tab. Would this be something we implement within a tabbuilder?

Thanks and grand work!

By: Simone Carletti

Simone Carletti — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:58:30 +0000

1 2	def open_tabs(*args) end

1 2	def open_tabs(options) end

open_tabs requires one parameter in the method definition.

By: Ryan B

Ryan B — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:53:51 +0000

there should have been a ul tag in side the single quotes, but must have gotten stripped

By: Ryan B

Ryan B — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:52:51 +0000

Got the custom builder to work, but when I overwrite open_tabs or close_tabs I get

wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)

I am just mimicking the default
def open_tabs '' end

accompanying backtrace
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tabs_on_rails-1.0.0/lib/tabs_on_rails/tabs.rb:32:in `open_tabs' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tabs_on_rails-1.0.0/lib/tabs_on_rails/tabs.rb:32:in `send' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tabs_on_rails-1.0.0/lib/tabs_on_rails/tabs.rb:32:in `open_tabs' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tabs_on_rails-1.0.0/lib/tabs_on_rails/controller_mixin.rb:124:in `tabs_tag' /Users/Ryan/Sites/Rails/perstrat/app/views/layouts/admin/projects.html.erb:28:in `_run_erb_app47views47layouts47admin47projects46html46erb' /Users/Ryan/Sites/Rails/perstrat/app/controllers/admin/shops_controller.rb:8:in `index'

By: Ryan B

Ryan B — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:39:26 +0000

awesome thanks so much

By: Simone Carletti

Simone Carletti — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:25:26 +0000

If you declared the class inside an helper module, you need to pass the full qualified path.

1	tabs_tag :builder => PostHelpers::MyBuilder

Otherwise, you probably declared the class elsewhere and you forgot to include the library in your Rails environment.

I recommend to define the custom builder in the helper file. If it is a global builder, use the ApplicationHelper module, otherwise a specific helper is just fine.

The you can either pass the full qualified class path including namespaced as shown before, or you can creare a custom helper within the helper module and extend the tabs_tag.

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module ApplicationHelper

class MyBuilder
# ...
end

def my_tabs_tag(options = {})
tabs_tag(options.merge(:builder => MyBuilder))
end

end

By: Ryan B

Ryan B — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:18:28 +0000

I am having some trouble trying to get the custom builder to work. Where do you recommend actually storing the custom builder in the rails project? I keep getting this error
uninitialized constant ActionView::Base::CompiledTemplates::MenuTabBuilder

when i try to feed the custom builder class to the tabs_tag.