matrix tag?

[Scott Cytacki]

Hi y'all

I've just got into Hobo, and I really like it.  By way of introduction, I work at an education technology research group called the Concord Consortium, and we've done a lot with Rails, Java, and SproutCore. 

Before I go off and try to make one I wanted to check if anyone has created a 'matrix' DRYML tag.  

By matrix I mean something like a pivot table.  So for example say I have 3 models:

Tablet

Feature

TabletFeature

And I want to display that as a table with Features across the top and Tablets on the side.  Then I want to put a view of TabletFeature in the cells.  There will only be a small number of Tablets and Features so showing all of each will fit on a page.

Thanks for any pointers,

Scott Cytacki

http://www.concord.org

[kevinpfromnm]

I haven't seen anything like that though it shouldn't be too hard with a table tag:

• tablets being context
• features used for fields attr (plus an initial 'this' so the tablet name/link gets first column)
• custom tag for field-tag attr that checks for inclusion of said feature.

[Scott Cytacki]

I made a repo that has an example app with a hard coded matrix.  The two models are Products and Devices.  So the matrix is intended to show which Devices each Product works with.  

The repo is here:

https://github.com/scytacki/hobo-matrix-example/

And here is the commit containing the hard coded matrix:

https://github.com/scytacki/hobo-matrix-example/commit/5dfbca65c12dbb894131184970f42699ad7ed4b0

I looked into reusing the fields of the table tag but didn't see how it would work if I passed objects (Products) as fields.  The hard coded version is concise enough that I'm just going to use that for now. 

Scott

[CharlieMagee]

Hi Scott,

I downloaded your app, ran it on localhost and added some products and
devices. Your matrix is working fine. With a little styling, you're
off and running.

I might be able to use that sometime, thanks,

Charlie Magee

On Oct 5, 8:36 pm, Scott Cytacki <scyta...@concord.org> wrote:

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> The repo is here:https://github.com/scytacki/hobo-matrix-example/
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> Scott