Ruby on Rails Helpful Helpers: Content Tags

Another common thing I like to do is use a helper method to handle tricky tag-soupish markup. A client may have 1 URL, in which case I would like to simply display it, but if they have multiple URLs I’d like to put it in a list format. The only problem with using the content_tag [...]

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Ruby on Rails Helpful Helpers: Defaulting Variables

One piece of code I find myself using a lot is for defaulting values using a simple conditional if statement: condition ? true : false. This isn’t bad in itself, but it also isn’t very powerful and dynamic. I wrote a small application helper which wraps this function and provides a pretty nice way [...]

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