I have been working on developing a blog site using rails. This is my first rails application, hence I am fairly new to rails development. Over the past week, I have encountered a few issues and hence I am putting them all in one post here. Please feel free to comment on any of the below mentioned issues:
1) On my blog post I have my blog entries and their respective comments. The visibility of the comments is toggled using a link. When my blog page loads, the comments are being displayed by default. However I want to hide the comments on page load and show them only when the "Comments" link is clicked. I am using rjs to toggle the visibility. Is there a way to hide the comments on page load? The code that I have is shown below:
//Comments link: (blog.html.erb) <%= link_to_remote pluralize(blogentry.comments.size, 'Comment'), :url => { :action => 'show_comments', :entry => blogentry}%>
//RJS Templates : (show_comments.js.rjs) entry = params[:entry] page.visual_effect :toggle_blind, "Comment_box_#{entry}" , :duration => 0.5, :fps => 50
2) I have also tried to categorize and archive the blog entries. For that I am calling custom find methods. They are working fine and everything is being done in the same method in the controller. Also I have a single view file. However I would like to know if there is a better way of doing this. Should I perform the find in separate methods and have separate view files for each find (like separate view for archives and categories)? Although I don't think that would be a DRY implementation. The code is shown below:
//page controller def blog @category = Category.find_by_name(params[:category_name]) if (params[:category_name]) @blogentries = Blogentry.find_all_by_category_id(@category.id) elsif (params[:month] && params[:year] ) start = Time.mktime(params[:year], params[:month]) @blogentries = Blogentry.find(:all, :conditions => ['created_at
? and created_at < ?', start, start.next_month])
else @blogentries = Blogentry.find(:all) end end
//blog.html.erb <% for blogentry in @blogentries %> <div id="blog_entry"> <div id="blog_heading"> <%= h blogentry.title %> </div> <div id="blog_content"> <%=h blogentry.body %> </div> </div> <% end %>
//layout.html.erb (only the sidebar code with Archives and Categories). //This file provides the category, month and year required for categorizing and archiving //respectively.
<div id="sidebar"> <div class = "side_content"> <div> CATEGORIES </div> <% for category in @categories%> <% @entry = Blogentry.findforCatergoryid(category.id) %> <%= link_to category.name.upcase + "(#{@entry.length})", category_entries_path(category.name)%> <% end%> </div> <div class = "side_content"> <div> ARCHIVES </div> <% @entries_by_month.each do |month, entry|%> <%= link_to month.strftime('%B %Y').upcase, archive_path (month.strftime('%Y'), month.strftime('%m'))%> <% end%> </div> </div>
Any help here will be be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, vishy
