Ruby Snips

I’ve been pretty busy lately with working several projects (4 at work and 1 at home) and haven’t had the time to put into this site as much as I would have liked. I do have some plans, in the future, of moving things around and bringing in a buddy of mine to help out with some cool snips on JavaScript. That means this site will be doing some changing – for a future post on my own blog.

Well, I didn’t start this post to just tell you that, I’ve got a few snips here for you to chew on. I’ll break them up in a few separate posts. Here is the first:

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def button_for(name, options={})
  return content_tag(:button, content_tag(:span, content_tag(:span, name)), 
                                        :class => options[:class], 
                                        :type => options[:button_type])
end

The above creates a button element with a couple of span’s within it – not the most semantic, but it does provide a lot of flexibility when styling the button out. You pass the method a name for the inner-inner span element and then a class for the button element with a type (e.g. submit).

This method was originally from my buddy Kevin for one of our projects and I went in a just did a little polishing of the method.