Camping list - Feb 2007 - a series of tabbed forms

Hi,

I''ve previously described one of my wish list items,

  http://kleb.tadalist.com/lists/public/427170

in

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/217068

where I basically take a hash of hashes and create
a set of tabbed dialogs for each key of the large hash
where each tab has a form to set each key-value pair
of the embedded hashes.

Toward this end I looked at Erik Veenstra''s RubyWebDialogs,
but he said that it is dead in favor of Rails.  I want
something less heavy that I can wrap my tiny brain around.

Does anyone have a non-database-backed Camping app with tabs
they could share as an example?  (Or suggest an alternative
approach entirely.)

Thanks,
--
Bil Kleb
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov

On 2/9/07, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb at nasa.gov> wrote:
> Does anyone have a non-database-backed Camping app with tabs
> they could share as an example?  (Or suggest an alternative
> approach entirely.)
Leaving out the database is easy -- just don''t inherit from Base
(a.k.a. ActiveRecord::Base) in your model classes. In fact, for your
model, it looks like you could basically have a single
(namelist-backed) model class, representing a ''tab'' worth of
data from
your namelist file. Presumably, you''ve written (or have ideas about
how to write) the namelist marshalling code, and some sort of handler
for the metadata files described in your Tadalist item.

As far as making it "tabbed", I would personally probably just make
each "tab" a separate page to render, defining a controller class that
took the tab as a URL parameter, and having it load the current
''tab''
worth of data. See the attached example app for some code that does
this (albeit using a minimal, ugly chunk of CSS).

Does that help at all?

-Lennon
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Lennon Day-Reynolds wrote:
> 
> Does that help at all?
Oh yes!

Thanks,
--
Bil Kleb
http://funit.rubyforge.org