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Message from discussion Reasons for considering LowPro...am I in the right place?

Chris Cruft

More options 29 Jan 2008, 14:43

From: Chris Cruft <c...@hapgoods.com>

Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:43:22 -0800 (PST)

Local: Tues 29 Jan 2008 14:43

Subject: Reasons for considering LowPro...am I in the right place?

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I've recently been foiled by the pluginification of InPlaceEditor and
AutoCompleter in RoR and their incompatibilities with the current
Scriptaculous and Prototype. In the past, being very comfortable in
Ruby, I would have simply monkey patched the in_place_editor (for
example) to pass the htmlResponse variable. But after doing some
research, I'm convinced that the Rails helpers are evil: I buy into
the behavior/content/style separation argument and I'm convinced that
the differing dev cycles on the three projects means the helpers will
forever be out of sync.

What's a developer to do? I looked at jQuery, but I'm not ready to
ditch Prototype and Scriptaculous. Then I found LowPro. And while I
really don't like the idea of yet another library, I would consider a
small one if it is slick.

My first stab a LowPro involved removing the Rails JS helper
in_place_editor and adding code to application.js to add this behavior
to the relevant elements. But WHERE is the InPlaceEditor behavior?
This behavior file in the lowpro subversion repository is only a
skeleton. And the AutoCompleter is totally empty! What gives? Am I
expected to stitch Scriptaculous' AutoCompleter into LowPro myself?
If so, can anyone point me to an example?

-Chris

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