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diff --git a/public/rails-improvements.html b/public/rails-improvements.html index 2b7f527..f6fa14a 100644 --- a/public/rails-improvements.html +++ b/public/rails-improvements.html @@ -9,11 +9,27 @@ <body> <header><a href="/">Luke Shumaker</a> » <a href=/blog>blog</a> » rails-improvements</header> <article> -<h1 id="miscellaneous-ways-to-improve-your-rails-experience">Miscellaneous ways to improve your Rails experience</h1> -<p>Recently, I’ve been working on <a href="https://github.com/LukeShu/leaguer">a Rails web application</a>, that’s really the baby of a friend of mine. Anyway, through its development, I’ve come up with a couple things that should make your interactions with Rails more pleasant.</p> -<h2 id="auto-reload-classes-from-other-directories-than-app">Auto-(re)load classes from other directories than <code>app/</code></h2> -<p>The development server automatically loads and reloads files from the <code>app/</code> directory, which is extremely nice. However, most web applications are going to involve modules that aren’t in that directory; and editing those files requires re-starting the server for the changes to take effect.</p> -<p>Adding the following lines to your <a href="https://github.com/LukeShu/leaguer/blob/c846cd71411ec3373a5229cacafe0df6b3673543/config/application.rb#L15"><code>config/application.rb</code></a> will allow it to automatically load and reload files from the <code>lib/</code> directory. You can of course change this to whichever directory/ies you like.</p> +<h1 +id="miscellaneous-ways-to-improve-your-rails-experience">Miscellaneous +ways to improve your Rails experience</h1> +<p>Recently, I’ve been working on <a +href="https://github.com/LukeShu/leaguer">a Rails web application</a>, +that’s really the baby of a friend of mine. Anyway, through its +development, I’ve come up with a couple things that should make your +interactions with Rails more pleasant.</p> +<h2 +id="auto-reload-classes-from-other-directories-than-app">Auto-(re)load +classes from other directories than <code>app/</code></h2> +<p>The development server automatically loads and reloads files from the +<code>app/</code> directory, which is extremely nice. However, most web +applications are going to involve modules that aren’t in that directory; +and editing those files requires re-starting the server for the changes +to take effect.</p> +<p>Adding the following lines to your <a +href="https://github.com/LukeShu/leaguer/blob/c846cd71411ec3373a5229cacafe0df6b3673543/config/application.rb#L15"><code>config/application.rb</code></a> +will allow it to automatically load and reload files from the +<code>lib/</code> directory. You can of course change this to whichever +directory/ies you like.</p> <pre><code>module YourApp class Application < Rails::Application … @@ -22,9 +38,23 @@ … end end</code></pre> -<h2 id="have-submit_tag-generate-a-button-instead-of-an-input">Have <code>submit_tag</code> generate a button instead of an input</h2> -<p>In HTML, the <code><input type="submit"></code> tag styles slightly differently than other inputs or buttons. It is impossible to precisely controll the hight via CSS, which makes designing forms a pain. This is particularly noticable if you use Bootstrap 3, and put it next to another button; the submit button will be slightly shorter vertically.</p> -<p>The obvious fix here is to use <code><button type="submit"></code> instead. The following code will modify the default Rails form helpers to generate a button tag instead of an input tag. Just stick the code in <a href="https://github.com/LukeShu/leaguer/blob/521eae01be1ca3f69b47b3170a0548c3268f4a22/config/initializers/form_improvements.rb"><code>config/initializers/form_improvements.rb</code></a>; it will override <code>ActionView::Hlepers::FormTagHelper#submit_tag</code>. It is mostly the standard definition of the function, except for the last line, which has changed.</p> +<h2 id="have-submit_tag-generate-a-button-instead-of-an-input">Have +<code>submit_tag</code> generate a button instead of an input</h2> +<p>In HTML, the <code><input type="submit"></code> tag styles +slightly differently than other inputs or buttons. It is impossible to +precisely controll the hight via CSS, which makes designing forms a +pain. This is particularly noticable if you use Bootstrap 3, and put it +next to another button; the submit button will be slightly shorter +vertically.</p> +<p>The obvious fix here is to use +<code><button type="submit"></code> instead. The following code +will modify the default Rails form helpers to generate a button tag +instead of an input tag. Just stick the code in <a +href="https://github.com/LukeShu/leaguer/blob/521eae01be1ca3f69b47b3170a0548c3268f4a22/config/initializers/form_improvements.rb"><code>config/initializers/form_improvements.rb</code></a>; +it will override +<code>ActionView::Hlepers::FormTagHelper#submit_tag</code>. It is mostly +the standard definition of the function, except for the last line, which +has changed.</p> <pre><code># -*- ruby-indent-level: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- module ActionView module Helpers @@ -56,7 +86,8 @@ module ActionView end end end</code></pre> -<p>I’ll probably update this page as I tweak other things I don’t like.</p> +<p>I’ll probably update this page as I tweak other things I don’t +like.</p> </article> <footer> |