Need help for Helper

Rails
1

I need a helper, which will render a table in my customized style.
I wrote a code like this:

template.rhtml:
<% @column_names = [“Name”, “Age”, “Sex”] %>
<%= table_show @column_name %>

helper.rb
def table_show(names)
for name in names
content_tag ( :div, name, :class => ‘table_header’ )
end
end

Which should give me an output like this:

Name
Age
Sex

Unfortunately I have only one line of output which looks like:
NameAgeSex

After few trials it seems, that this output is being generated by line:
“for name in names”, because deleting “content_tag…” doesn’t make any
differences.

What am I doing wrong?
I suppose that helper def does treat an Array like a String…

Regards,
Tomasz Tomczyk

2

Hi Tomasz,

Tomasz Tomczyk wrote:

Which should give me an output like this:

Name
Age
Sex

Unfortunately I have only one line of output which looks like:
NameAgeSex

Are you saying you have one visible line? Or that, when you look at
the
DOM you’ve actually got one string? Without seeing your code, my first
guess would be that you’ve got a CSS problem, not a Rails problem. You
might want to try the block form of content_tag, just to help separate
the
issues.

hth,
Bill

3

Finally I’ve found the problem - it was me :slight_smile:
There was no return clause in the helper, which caused it to print
everything in “for” loop.

Now its OK.

Thanks anyway,
Tomasz Tomczyk