Camping list - Nov 2006 - [OT] Markaby trunk and Rails ivars

Can someone explain the new Markaby syntax to me? I''m using Markaby  
as a Rails plugin, fetched from the trunk.

I''m losing my instance variables somehow (@thing is always nil):

class ThingsController < ApplicationController
   def index
     @thing = "Bacon of the chunky variety"
   end
end

# app/views/index.mab
h1 { "You should see a thing here:" }
p { @thing }


And I get a NoMethodError when trying to get at it with the thing()  
method, as mentioned in the README.

I can, however, get to the instance variable like this:

@thing = @helpers.controller.assigns[''thing'']


What am I doing wrong?

Geoff

Yeah, this is my fault - sorry for the breakage :)

p { thing } should work just fine now (as of r91).

The idea behind these recent changes is to keep instance variables for
Markaby''s
own purposes, and force everything else coming in from outside (i.e.
controllers)
to go through method_missing. The code is a bit cleaner as a result.

Any objections to the new style?

Tim


On 03/11/06, Geoffrey Grosenbach <boss at topfunky.com>
wrote:
> Can someone explain the new Markaby syntax to me? I''m using
Markaby
> as a Rails plugin, fetched from the trunk.
>
> I''m losing my instance variables somehow (@thing is always nil):
>
> class ThingsController < ApplicationController
>    def index
>      @thing = "Bacon of the chunky variety"
>    end
> end
>
> # app/views/index.mab
> h1 { "You should see a thing here:" }
> p { @thing }
>
>
> And I get a NoMethodError when trying to get at it with the thing()
> method, as mentioned in the README.
>
> I can, however, get to the instance variable like this:
>
> @thing = @helpers.controller.assigns[''thing'']
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Geoff
>
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On Nov 4, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> p { thing } should work just fine now (as of r91).
Works like a dream now, thanks!


Geoff