On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't mind the magic if I know it's magic.
>
> So what does module helpers mean? Is there also a helpers module that is
> included by default in addition to Sinatra::Helpers?
I'm not sure I understand the question. With Sinatra, the following
can be used to add individual methods to all views:
helpers do
..
end
And the following can be used to add an entire module of your own
creation to all views:
helpers module_name
- Sam Ruby
> Craig
>
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dropping helpers. made it work.
>>
>> So is helpers a magic ruby thing? I read about ApplicationHelper but that's
>> not directly applicable.
>
> Instead of multiple inheritance, Ruby has single inheritance
> classes... and modules. Sinatra defines a module called
> Sinatra::Helpers that is included in each view, and provides a
> convenient syntax for you to add methods to that module. You should
> be able to achieve the same effect (with less magic) by adding methods
> directly to Sinatra::Helpers, thus:
>
> module Sinatra::Helpers
> def pmcs
> ASF::Committee.pmcs.map(&:name).sort
> end
> def ppmcs
> ASF::Podling.list
> .select {|podling| podling.status == 'current'}
> .map(&:name).sort
> end
> end
>
>> Craig
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
>>> On Dec 28, 2017, at 4:11 AM, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # get a complete list of PMC and PPMC names
>>>> @pmcs = helpers.pmcs()
>>>
>>> Drop 'helpers.'
>>>
>>>> Any idea how to make this work?
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>
>>> - Sam Ruby
>>
>> Craig L Russell
>> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation
>> c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo
>>
