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

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

in the views
< %= navigation

(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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