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Rubies:
The great thing about Web programming is there's so many languages to chose
from - or mix together.
Specifically, an ERb page can contain 3 languages:
<select id="myList">
<% for record in @table %>
<option value="<%= record.id %>"><%= h(record.name) %></option>
<% end %>
</select>
Okay, that's a combobox with names and values in it.
Now how do I let the user select one option, and send it to the next page
with link_to()?
<%= link_to 'Go to Next Page',
{:action => 'goToNextPage', :id => ??? }
%>
The third potential language is JavaScript, so in theory I could add an
onclick event to each <option>, or similar, then express the link_to in raw
HTML...
<a id="linkOut" href="/page/goToNextPage/2">Go to Next Page</a>
...then use the onclick event to change the href attribute.
However, that's not very Railish, and I'm sure there's some feature
available which my newbescence has overlooked!
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Do you mean to say you meant this to go there? It... didn't.
The great thing about Web programming is there's so many languages to
chose
from - or mix together.
Not to be mean, but... Isn't that true about all programming?
Especially with the .NET CLR and it's ability to interoperate between
languages easily. I see this as being huge eventually. (Ruby has a gem
that allows you to use .NET libraries, and of course C libraries... So
it's already walking down this path. And I'm very much looking forward
to Ruby.NET.)