DRY relative to edit and show

I’m a newbie, but it seems like edit and show should somehow share a
partial form.

In particular I’ve customized the layout of my edit form by using a
table and multiple rows/columns and I want my show form to look the
same.

Currently I’ve modified my show view to use _form, but now all the
fields are read/write and obviously they need to be read only on the
show form.

Any ideas, or just do form layout work twice?

Thanks
Greg

Greg F.
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

If none of your fields in your ‘show’ action are editable, why do you
want to use a form?

Assuming you want a form (in a table) for editing and a table for
showing, it isn’t redundant (or in violation of the DRY rule) to have
separate partials or views. The two are inherently different.

On 12/23/05, Toby B. [email protected] wrote:

If none of your fields in your ‘show’ action are editable, why do you
want to use a form?

Assuming you want a form (in a table) for editing and a table for
showing, it isn’t redundant (or in violation of the DRY rule) to have
separate partials or views. The two are inherently different.

your right, I don’t need a form. Just trying to eliminate the
redundant table layouts.

Greg

Greg F.
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

It would be nice if rails had a native way to set all the readonly attributes (or enabled, etc… as appropriate for the control) to true or false based on the view being a show or edit. This would eliminate the duplication we see between the actions. <

If you’re using the RoR helpers to create the forms
(/app/views/…/_form)
<%= text_field ‘table’, ‘field’ %>
, what about creating an application-wide helper that will set read-only
attribute based on a flag or global?
<%= my_text_field ‘table’, ‘field’, read_only %>

Rich C.
[email protected]

I have ran into the same concern and fundamentally feel like it is a
duplication of effort - even though the two actions perform different
purposes I want them to share 100% of the look-and-feel. I find myself
copying and pasting the appropriate show and edit files every time and
then going through and changing them as necessary for the designated
action.

When I want to change the look-and-feel of one, I have to change the
other as well. I understand Toby’s argument, but it doesn’t change the
fact that it is duplicating the effort.

It would be nice if rails had a native way to set all the readonly
attributes (or enabled, etc… as appropriate for the control) to true
or false based on the view being a show or edit. This would eliminate
the duplication we see between the actions.

Just my opinion!

Michael

Toby B. [email protected] wrote:
If none of your fields in your ‘show’ action are editable, why do you
want to use a form?

Assuming you want a form (in a table) for editing and a table for
showing, it isn’t redundant (or in violation of the DRY rule) to have
separate partials or views. The two are inherently different.