Hiding parts of a view while in development

Posted September 11th, 2009; 0 comments.

Most of my recent projects have involved working with a front end developer, who would provide HTML/CSS templates with dummy content to be integrated into a Rails backend. During the process of wiring up the views, I often wish to hide a section of a template or partial until the models and controllers are setup to support them.

I’ve started using this little view helper to hide code in a view, while providing a console message to remind me to go back and address the issue when the time is right:

def hide(&block)
  if Rails.env == 'development'
    match, file, line = caller.first.match(/([^:]+):(\d+).+/).to_a
    Rails.logger.info "** Hiding content on line #{line} of #{file}"
  end
end

It’s simple to use, especially in HAML:

- hide do
  = some_view_code_that_will_not_execute

The helper will print something like this to your console:

** Hiding content on line 14 of /Users/jimb/Projects/demo/app/views/objects/show.html.haml

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Hiding parts of a view while in development

Posted September 11th, 2009; 0 comments.

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