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Active Component

Active Component introduces components into your Rails presentation layer. The use of components improves consistency and development speed through reuse and a new way of view code organization. Components are plain Ruby classes that are able to render themselves using a to_html method. Active Component provides several means that make it easy to write and use components.

Example

**Active Component Template:**

div ‘kpi-report’, :content => [

heading_with_label("in #{ Time.now.year }", "Group", 'group'),

report_table(@coreprocesses,
  :headers  => ["Core Processes"] + @companies.collect {|company| company.name},
  :cols     => [:name] + @companies.collect {|company| 
    proc {|cp| progress_chart(cp, :reporting_company_id => company.id, :chart_type => :boxes)}
  }
)

]

Each method represents a component.

**Comparision: Same Template in ERB:**

<h1 class="content_header">
  <span class="content_header_text">
    <span class="label group_label">Group</span> 
    <%= title("Umsetzungsstand der Ziele") %> 
    in <%= Time.now.year %> <%= help_text %></span>
</h1>
<div class="content">
  <div class="sub_content">
    <table cellspacing="0">
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <td width="80%">Core Processes</td>
          <% @companies.each do |t| %>
            <td><%= t.name %></td>
          <% end %>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <% @coreprocesses.each do |cp| %>
      <tr class="line">
        <td class="small_name_column"><%= cp.name %></td>
        <% @companies.each do |t| %>
          <td class="small_indicator_column"><%= scale_helper(cp, true, t.id, Time.now.year, groupwide) %></td>
        <% end %>
      </tr>
      <% end %>
    </table>
  </div>
</div>

</div>