Help me understand dynamic layouts in Sinatra
- by thermans
Help me understand this; I'm learning Sinatra (and Rails for that matter, er, and Ruby).
Say I'm doing a search app. The search form is laid out in one div, and the results will be laid out in another. The search form is rendered into the div by a previous view (maybe from a login form).
I want to process the form params, perform the search, and render the results into the results div.
If I have a single "yield" in the layout and render the divs from different views, the results div erases the search div when it renders.
If I define the divs in the default layout, then just render the content, obviously the layout will be messed up: there would have to be two "yields" and I don't think Sinatra supports passing blocks in to yields.
I tried foca's sinatra-content-for plugin, and that seems closer to what I need. But I can't figure out where to place the "yield_content" statements.
If I have this haml in my layout:
#search
-# search form
= yield_content :search
#results
-# search results
= yield_content :results
... this in my search view:
- content_for :search do
%form{:method => "post"... etc.
... and this in the results view:
- content_for :results do
%table{:class => 'results'... etc.
This sort of works but when I render the results view, the search div is emptied out. I would like to have it remain. Am I doing something wrong? How should I set this up?
