On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Paul Campbell <paul@rslw.com>
wrote:> The new router in Rails 3 is clean and concise and marks the
> acceptance of instance_exec as a method for writing a gorgeous DSL.
>
> I''m wondering should something similar be applied to the default
form helpers?
>
> Moving from this:
>
> <%= form_for(@post) do |f| %>
> <%= f.text_field :title %>
> <% end %>
>
> to this:
>
> <%= form_for(@post) do %>
> <%= text_field :title %>
> <% end %>
>
> etc.
>
> I tried it earlier just to check and kind of expected that it _might_
> already have been implemented.
>
> I don''t know much about the implementation details, other than
that
> it''s possible to do but requires a bit of magic, but I feel like
it
> might be something worth considering.
The biggest problem with the instance_exec version is that it''s pretty
ugly if you actually need to pass the helper object into, for
instance, a partial. Not really relevant for the router, but *very*
relevant for form builders...
--Matt Jones
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