Merb devel - Nov 2007 - Best Way to Write Helpers Using Markaby?

Hey there Merbers,

I''m a Merb neophyte checking it out with a simple app exploration  
after being inspired by Mr. Katz''s presentation @ JQueryCamp and with  
the desire to use Markaby if at all possible (I heart camping). I''ve  
done a little exploration of how to use Markaby in helper code, but  
any guidance would definitely be appreciated (I definitely do not  
understand the "Merb way").

At first I tried just putting the `tag_name do` blocks right in my  
helpers, but this didn''t work out.  What I''ve found does work
is
wrapping this code in `Markaby::Builder.new.html do` blocks, such as  
this:

     def tasks_table tasks
       Markaby::Builder.new.html do
         p "update tasks below"
         table do
           tasks.each do |task|
             task_row(task)
           end
         end
       end
     end

While this works, I''m pretty sure that making a new builder instance  
for each helper call.

What''s the "right" way?

Thanks.

--
Ethan Winn
ethan at echoditto.com



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