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Tabnav: Do We Really Need a Plugin for Tabbed Navigation?

by Paolo Dona

Tabnav: Do We Really Need a Plugin for Tabbed Navigation? by Paolo Dona

"will code for food"

why rails?
    speed!
    leaving
        more time for conversation with customers
        more time for interface design

traditionally
    40% time design
    60% code
with rails
    70% design
    30% code

Design/Navigation
    tabbed navigation links
    tabs everywhere!!!

TABNAV

ruby script/generate tabnav <tabname>

in the views:
    < %= tabnav :tabname %>

auto-generate partials

note: Tabnav auto-magically finds your controllers and by default it creates a “tab” for every controller

nested tabs

ajax calls

dynamic attributes

highlighting rules
    define which tabs get highlighted and when it happens

CSS customization

key points about tabnav and widgets in general
    - easy and readable
    - quick to setup
    - no monkey business (no html or css!)

NAVIGATION

ruby ./script/generate navigation <nav_name>

in the views
    < %= navigation <nav_name %>

(no cluttering of the views!)

SHOWHIDE

typical hide/show div for object details

    < %= show_detail_for user%>

TABLEIZER

start from a collection!
< %= tableize :customers, @customers,
            :header => 'xxx'
            :generate_css => yes %>

use partials
< %= tableize :customers, @customers,
            :partial => 'xxx'%>

TOOLTIPS

< %= tooltip image_tag('imagenmae') do 

        xxxx tooltip zzzzz
    end
%>

COLUMN LAYOUTS

column_layout :columns => 3 do

    add_part do
    end

    ...

    add_part do
    end

end

NUBBINS

define sensible areas 

with_nubbin_for(item) do
        ...
end

DON’T BE A CODE MONKEY!!

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