Packaging up some cells for re-use

[Mike Pence]

Hey guys,

So I have some cells built for Twitter Bootstrap form elements, and I want to re-use them across projects, and maybe even open-source them. Has anyone thought about the best way to package up and share such cells?

[Nick Sutterer]

Hey Mike,

you can package those cells as Rails engines and put them in a gem!

Nick

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Mike Pence <mike....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey guys,

So I have some cells built for Twitter Bootstrap form elements, and I want to re-use them across projects, and maybe even open-source them. Has anyone thought about the best way to package up and share such cells?

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[Mike Pence]

Awesome, doing that now. My first open source project!

https://github.com/mikepence/bootstrap_cells

When I ran into simple_form and formtastic lagging on their Twitter Bootstrap thing, it got me thinking that Cells are a better approach, so I finally took the plunge of doing something non-trivial with Cells. The results have been fantastic, so I am putting them out there.

[Kris Leech]

Mike - this sounds like an interesting project, but I couldn't find any cells in the project accept a hello world. It would also be good to spelt out exactly what the engine gives you in the README + some examples of usage. Thanks for making this public!

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[Mike Pence]

I will be pushing those out later today. Turns out that it is pretty darn easy to just publish an Engine as a gem, so this opens up a whole new world of re-use for me.

[Will I Am Schive]

Hi Mike ..

Are we still talking about : https://github.com/mikepence/bootstrap_cells

And, can you show code you are using, and point out the code you want to 'get rid of?'

I have a few apps with cells and widgets I built years ago ..

I struggled with them to learn them .. and watched them develop, with a zillion questions to Nick :)

I decided to not use them in my 'final' application,

  because of their lack of what I think you are going to be creating here in your new boostrap_cells gem.

That is why I am forking it, and watching it and ..

That is why I would Love to help you write the tutorial for 

How to Set Up and Use Cells.

I offer to do so, so that I can learn cells anew as you go along in creating this gem, and make it easy for others to do so.

Cells are a brilliancy in the Ruby on Rails stack .. 

Thank You for breathing life into cells so they are truly self-contained goodnesses, easy to wire up.

Are we still talking about : https://github.com/mikepence/bootstrap_cells as the working address ?

Cells Rock.

Widgets, too.

Thank You for doing this ..

Will I Am

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[Mike Pence]

I will post details of a new repository here, once it is available, in a day or two.

I have figured out how to have a form widget that contains field widgets, etc., all working with markup for Bootstrap. Thanks in advance for your support!

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[Mike Pence]

It will be here, https://github.com/mikepence/rails-bootstrap-widgets

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[Ian Neubert]

Hi Mike, I realize it's been 3 months+ since you started this.

Your project sounds like what I've been looking for.. a way to create reusable bootstrap based elements/widgets.

Did you make any progress on this? Are you still using cells and/or apotomo? Did you find anything else that solves this re-use of widgets problem?

[Nick Sutterer]

Maybe we should create an example gem that shows how to package a widget into a Rails engine?

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[Mike Pence]

I have been using Cells within the projects I am working on, but have not published the components that make forms with Bootstrap to github yet. I could be convinced to. I know that I did the groundwork to figure out how to gemify and Rails Engine, but I have to say that I find engines to be an ugly abstraction. I wonder if just publishing Apotomo components and Cells as Rubygems might not be a better way to go.

[Nick Sutterer]

The only thing to to would be to add the view paths to the cell. That is an interesting idea, Mike!