Rails - Mar 2007 - How does this helper work? (agile book)

Hello,

Im trying to understand how this helper method works:

def hidden_div_if(condition, attributes = {})
    if condition
      attributes["style"] = "display: none"
    end
    attrs = tag_options(attributes.stringify_keys)
    "<div #{attrs}>"
end


This is how they are calling it:

<%= hidden_div_if(@cart.items.empty?, :id => "cart") %>



Specifically, I need to know if the :id => "cart" is passed on to
attrs
with the style attribute...

And also, what does the tag_options(attributes.stringify_keys) do?

Thanks in advance!

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Basically, tag_options() will create a set of html tag attributes from
a hash:

tag_options({"id" => "cart", "style" =>
"color: black"})

will give you:

id="cart" style="color: black"

which is convenient to use in a tag:

<div id="cart" style="color: black">

stringify_keys is a method for hashes that converts any symbol keys to
strings.  For example {:id => "cart"} becomes {"id" =>
"cart"}

Hope that helps,

Steve


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