Widget-like API for DOM objects?

Ruby
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Hi all,

Is there something out there that would let me create DOM objects in a
more
Rubyesque manner? For example, say I want to create a ‘select’ object
in a web
page. I’d like an API something along these lines:

select = Select.new
select.options = [“joe”, “bob”, “moe”] # or {1=>“joe”, 2=>“bob”,
3=>“moe”}
select.selected_index = 2
select.title = “Three guys”
select.access_key = “A”

p select.html # Show html that would be generated using above options

You get the picture. Is there anything like this out on the RAA?
Nothing
immediately jumped out at me.

Regards,

Dan

2

Dan

I can give you this: http://scm.ywesee.com/?p=htmlgrid

However, this was one of my very first ruby-projects and basically needs
a complete rewrite… Some of the reasons:

  • Geared towards Table-Layout, hence the ‘grid’
  • tight coupling to http://scm.ywesee.com/?p=sbsm which is a
    state-based session-manager
  • meta-programming by configuration-constants
  • naming conventions changed in mid-project
  • nonexistant documentation

That said, if you want to try it out and help me get the priorities for
a next version straight, you’re more than welcome to do so and I hereby
pledge my support - which you’ll probably need :wink:

Cheers
Hannes

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Hannes W. wrote:

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  • meta-programming by configuration-constants
  • naming conventions changed in mid-project
  • nonexistant documentation

That said, if you want to try it out and help me get the priorities for
a next version straight, you’re more than welcome to do so and I hereby
pledge my support - which you’ll probably need :wink:

I tried to look at the link you provided but I get a 403 forbidden. :frowning:

Dan

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On 1/13/06, Daniel B. [email protected] wrote:

I tried to look at the link you provided but I get a 403 forbidden. :frowning:

sorry 'bout that, must have been a copy-paste thingummy… Try again:
http://scm.ywesee.com/?p=htmlgrid

Hannes

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On 1/13/06, Hannes W. [email protected] wrote:

On 1/13/06, Daniel B. [email protected] wrote:

I tried to look at the link you provided but I get a 403 forbidden. :frowning:

I must learn to think before posting… I’ve made a tarball, just in
case you don’t want to install git to download the code:
http://download.ywesee.com/htmlgrid/htmlgrid-daily.tar.bz2
http://download.ywesee.com/sbsm/sbsm-daily.tar.bz2

Apologies for all the noise…
Hannes

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select.access_key = “A”

p select.html # Show html that would be generated using above options

You get the picture. Is there anything like this out on the RAA? Nothing
immediately jumped out at me.

REXML has a DOM-like API, and it comes pre-installed with Ruby:

load REXML

require ‘rexml/document’

Create an HTML select element.

class HTMLSelect
attr_accessor :options, :attrs, :index

def initialize(options = [], select_attrs = {}, selected_index =

nil)
@options, @attrs, @index = options, select_attrs, selected_index
end

def to_s
  # create return select element and append requested attributes
  ret = REXML::Element.new('select')
  @attrs.each { |key, val| ret.attributes[key] = val }

  # iterate over, create, and append each option
  @options.each_with_index do |opt, i|
    # create and append element
    opt_elem = ret << REXML::Element.new('option')

    # add option text, and option attributes
    opt_elem << REXML::Text.new(opt)
    opt_elem.attributes['value'] = i.to_s
    opt_elem.attributes['selected'] = 'Y' if i == @index
  end

  # convert select element to string and return
  ret.to_s
end

end

define attributes, option items, and initial selected index

select_attrs = {
‘name’ => ‘which_guy’,
‘title’ => ‘Three Guys’,
‘access_key’ => ‘A’,
}
selected_index, options = 2, %w{joe bob moe}

build select box and print out result

puts HTMLSelect.new(options, select_attrs, selected_index).to_s

Hope this helps…

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Paul D. wrote:

select.selected_index = 2

  @options, @attrs, @index = options, select_attrs, selected_index
    opt_elem = ret << REXML::Element.new('option')

end
puts HTMLSelect.new(options, select_attrs, selected_index).to_s

Hope this helps…

Ah, thanks Paul. I’d like something prebuilt, but it looks like REXML
would
serve as a great way to build things behind the scenes.

Regards,

Dan