Rails - Mar 2006 - Simple Sidebar Solutions: How does yours work?

I''m working on a simple photo gallery app for personal use and I want
to
generalize the sidebar such that in any page (controller or view, I''m 
not sure which) I can dynamically add either
1. links to a given sidebar
2. or an entire sidebar.

I know that typo does this, and I''ve looked the code. I think
it''s too
complex a solution for my simple site. I''d like to avoid using 
components, and make do with a bit of code in the layout and maybe a 
partial and a helper or something.

Here''s the code that''s in my sidebar now.

<div id="sidebar">
<div id="controls" class="sidebar-node">
<h3>Pictures</h3>
<ul>
        <li><%= link_to "Refresh Pictures", { :action => 
''scan_directory''}, :confirm => "Are you
sure?"%>
        <li><%= link_to "All Pictures", { :action =>
''list'' } %>
</ul>
</div><!-- #sidebar -->

Now lets say I want to take out those 2 links and specifying them from, 
say, my list.rhtml page. How would I go about it?

I was thinking of creating a literal array of links, then using a 
partial that loops over the array with an <li> for each one.
Does that sound easiest?

Whats the best way to put the link info in an array? Could I make an 
array of the html result of the link_to calls themselves?
Or maybe an array of literal hashes of the arguments to link_to?
Or do I need to make my own structure?

How do other apps, outside of typo, deal with dynamic sidebars? Or 
toolbars for that matter - it''s more a toolbar than a sidebar really.

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Components really aren''t all that hard, but...

You could put a instance variable in the correct spot like...

<div id="sidebar"> <%= @sidebar %> </div>

And then have each controller set the varible @sidebar in a before_filter

_Kevin




On Tuesday, March 28, 2006, at 3:55 PM, rhubarb wrote:
>I''m working on a simple photo gallery app for personal use and I
want to
>generalize the sidebar such that in any page (controller or view,
I''m
>not sure which) I can dynamically add either
>1. links to a given sidebar
>2. or an entire sidebar.
>
>I know that typo does this, and I''ve looked the code. I think
it''s too
>complex a solution for my simple site. I''d like to avoid using
>components, and make do with a bit of code in the layout and maybe a
>partial and a helper or something.
>
>Here''s the code that''s in my sidebar now.
>
><div id="sidebar">
><div id="controls" class="sidebar-node">
><h3>Pictures</h3>
><ul>
>        <li><%= link_to "Refresh Pictures", { :action
=>
>''scan_directory''}, :confirm => "Are you
sure?"%>
>        <li><%= link_to "All Pictures", { :action =>
''list'' } %>
></ul>
></div><!-- #sidebar -->
>
>Now lets say I want to take out those 2 links and specifying them from,
>say, my list.rhtml page. How would I go about it?
>
>I was thinking of creating a literal array of links, then using a
>partial that loops over the array with an <li> for each one.
>Does that sound easiest?
>
>Whats the best way to put the link info in an array? Could I make an
>array of the html result of the link_to calls themselves?
>Or maybe an array of literal hashes of the arguments to link_to?
>Or do I need to make my own structure?
>
>How do other apps, outside of typo, deal with dynamic sidebars? Or
>toolbars for that matter - it''s more a toolbar than a sidebar
really.
>
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