Separate rows in view depending its date

Rails
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Hi,

I would like to hear your opinions about how do you think I can
implement this.
I have a @events array where I have events each one with its datetime,
and ordered by it.
I would like to show a list of these events in a table. I would like to
put a blank row in the table after each group of events with the same
date.
I don’t know if it is better to separate the events in groups in the
controller or if I can use an ‘if’ in the view to insert this blank row.

Thanks.

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2009/3/4 Juan K. [email protected]

I don’t know if it is better to separate the events in groups in the
controller or if I can use an ‘if’ in the view to insert this blank row.

I would suggest this is to do with how you want to view the data, it is
not
inherent in the data itself, so it should go in the view.

3

Ok. That makes sense to me. Can I store values in variables in the view?
I think it would be possible by storing the datetime of the previous
event and comparing it with the current event datetime. I think what I
want to do is similar to pagination…

Colin L. wrote:

2009/3/4 Juan K. [email protected]

I don’t know if it is better to separate the events in groups in the
controller or if I can use an ‘if’ in the view to insert this blank row.

I would suggest this is to do with how you want to view the data, it is
not
inherent in the data itself, so it should go in the view.

4

You can write pretty much any ruby in the view, local vars are no
problem. I
feel there may be an elegant way to skip a row or otherwise leave a gap
on
date change but at the moment it escapes me. Any suggestions from those
with
more experience?

2009/3/4 Juan K. [email protected]

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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 19:08 +0000, Colin L. wrote:

You can write pretty much any ruby in the view, local vars are no
problem. I feel there may be an elegant way to skip a row or otherwise
leave a gap on date change but at the moment it escapes me. Any
suggestions from those with more experience?

CSS. Wrap each date-group in a

and style it with
a top/bottom margin to get the spacing you’re looking for.

HTH,
Bill

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What I do not see is how to build those ‘date-groups’ because what I
have now is only @events = Event.find(:all, :order => ‘date’)

In the view I do:

<%= for event in @events %>
[…]

bill walton wrote:

CSS. Wrap each date-group in a

and style it with
a top/bottom margin to get the spacing you’re looking for.