Advanced Block Helpers

Rails
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I have a site that calls for multiple content areas on a screen. In
order to remain DRY I wanted to create a helper that helped reduce the
markup.

At a high level I have a helper method that creates an instance of a
ContentBlock class and calls render on it. I want to render everything
inside the block passed to the helper method in the context of
ContentBlock, so that I can do something like

content do |c|
c.tab do
‘tab content’
end

c.tab do
‘other tab content’
end
end

Right now when I do what I have posted in the gist below I get the
following error:

undefined method `safe_concat’ for nil:NilClass, I’m assuming that is
because it tries to buffer the template code and execute it in the
context of my content block class.

Here is the gist of what I am currently have:

Here is a mockup of the final product: http://imgur.com/nRVqI

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On Jun 17, 12:07am, Noah H. [email protected] wrote:

c.tab do

undefined method `safe_concat’ for nil:NilClass, I’m assuming that is
because it tries to buffer the template code and execute it in the
context of my content block class.

Well you do evaluate the block by calling instance_eval on yourself,
so your asking for it to be evaluated in the context of your
ContentBlock object. You probably want all that to happen on the
template object instead.

Fred