Scaffolding vs documentation example

[Randy Johnson]

Here is the code from the documentation:

<p>

        #radioButton(objectName="user", property="gender", tagValue="m", label="Male")#<br />

        #radioButton(objectName="user", property="gender", tagValue="f", label="Female")#

    </p>

Here is the code from the scaffolding plugin:

<p><label>Gender</label> <br />

#textField(objectName='user', property='gender')#</p>

I am curious as to why the scaffolding plugin wouldn't follow the documentation example?  I would assume that the documentation example would be the best practice?

Granted I know the bottom one is a text field and the top is a radio button, but the scaffolding plugin actually put in the html rather than using the label attribute as the example did.

Is one way better than the other?

Thanks!

Randy

[raulriera]

Randy,

I wrote that plugin.. you are right there.. I followed that
"convention" because that is what Rails was doing.. but I guess I
should be doing that instead. What do you guys think? should I keep it
a single Wheels function? makes more sense now that I think about it

[John C. Bland II]

Stick to the docs, IMO.

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[Chris Peters]

+1 on using the Wheels functions.

The plugin still kicks ass though!

[John C. Bland II]

I'm giving it a whirl this weekend and def' look forward to using it.

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[raulriera]

I certanly don't like the HTML this produces

#textField(objectName="user", property="name", label="Name")#

so I am thinking something like this

#textField(objectName="user", property="name", label="Name",
labelPlacement="before", prepend="<p>", append="</p>")#

Is it HTML "safe" to wrap a label around a field? doesn't sit right
with me...

On Nov 26, 9:43 pm, "John C. Bland II" <johncblan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[John C. Bland II]

Yeah, label can wrap a field just fine.

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[Chris Peters]

Why not let the developer worry about the defaults of labelPlacement, prepend, append, etc?

You can set those in config/settings.cfm or events/onapplicationstart.cfm. I wrote a blog post about this back in July:
http://www.clearcrystalmedia.com/pm/setting-global-defaults-wheels/

[Chris Peters]

I should mention that things have changed slightly since I wrote that blog post. Instead of the wrapLabel argument, it should be the labelPlacement argument.

[raulriera]

Chris = Rock star, will do

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[John C. Bland II]

No doubt!

+1

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[raulriera]

http://github.com/raulriera/Scaffold/blob/master/CHANGELOG

What's in 0.3.1 so far, ideas are welcome

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[Chris Peters]

Is there a way that you can introspect if it's of type TEXT (and equivalent in other RDBMSes) and make it a textArea() instead of textField()? That was something that I noticed when I was playing with it the other day.

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[raulriera]

Yeah I hate that too, but I am using Wheels introspection and it just
returns varchar to me... can't really tell if it is TEXT if I dont
manually introspect every adapter

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[Chris Peters]

Gotcha.

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