# Rails and Dojo

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 13, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677 "2008-04-13T22:07:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677/1 "2008-04-13T22:07:53Z")

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Hi there everyone,

How would I go about adding the dojoType to a rails text\_area form  
helper i.e.

\<%= f.text\_area :content %\>

Regards,  
Schalk

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**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677/2 "2008-04-13T22:23:42Z")

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Not 100% sure since I’ve never tried Rails + Dojo, but as I recall  
don’t most of the tags allow for additional HTML content to be  
specified as a Hash? If so, couldn’t you pass the dojoType attribute  
and value to that?

As I said I’ve never tried this, so it might not work depending on how  
exactly the internals of Rails parses the values provided

- Wayne

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**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677/3 "2008-04-13T22:28:30Z")

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I Wayne,

Thank for the feedback. Yes, I saw that all the form helpers do show a  
options = {} argument but when I try to do:

\<%= f.text\_area :content, options = {dooType=“someDojoType”} %\>

I get a compile error. Can you show me what you mean by specifying  
additional HTML content as a Hash?

Kind Regards,  
Schalk N.

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**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677/4 "2008-04-14T01:29:23Z")

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\<%= f.text\_area :content, :dooType =\> “someDojoType”, :id =\>  
“element\_id” %\>

Schalk N. wrote:

> I Wayne,
> 
> Thank for the feedback. Yes, I saw that all the form helpers do show a  
> options = {} argument but when I try to do:
> 
> \<%= f.text\_area :content, options = {dooType=“someDojoType”} %\>
> 
> I get a compile error. Can you show me what you mean by specifying  
> additional HTML content as a Hash?
> 
> Kind Regards,  
> Schalk N.

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**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677/5 "2008-04-14T02:03:16Z")

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Ummmm I think he wanted the dooType attribute set on the text area  
tax, not sent in through the params attribute (ie on the key-val  
mappings of the URL line).

that would be

\<%= f.text\_area(:content, {:dooType =\> “someDojoType”}) %\>

Here “content” would be the attribute of the object passed into the  
form object “f”.

Is this what you wanted?

Julian.

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**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677/6 "2008-04-14T02:52:55Z")

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Yep.

Julian.

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**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677/7 "2008-04-14T11:16:59Z")

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Hi there,

In the end it was so simple I could kick myself:  
\<%= f.text\_area :content, {dojoType = "dijit.Editor} %\>

And Bob’s your uncle 🙂

Regards,  
Schalk

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**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-dojo/134677/8 "2008-04-14T02:08:23Z")

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\<%= f.text\_area(:content, {:dooType =\> “someDojoType”}) %\>

and

\<%= f.text\_area(:content, :dooType =\> “someDojoType”) %\>

are the same thing. If the last argument is a hash, there is no need to  
include the hash tags. Matter of personal preference, but I prefer it  
without the explicit hash tags when they are not needed.

Julian L. wrote:

> Ummmm I think he wanted the dooType attribute set on the text area  
> tax, not sent in through the params attribute (ie on the key-val  
> mappings of the URL line).
> 
> that would be
> 
> \<%= f.text\_area(:content, {:dooType =\> “someDojoType”}) %\>
> 
> Here “content” would be the attribute of the object passed into the  
> form object “f”.
> 
> Is this what you wanted?
> 
> Julian.
> 
> Learn Ruby on Rails! Check out the FREE VIDS (for a limited time)  
> VIDEO #4 coming soon!  
> [http://sensei.zenunit.com/](http://sensei.zenunit.com/)