Artdeco

Decorators for Rails

• extend an object with given classes (default is <object.class>Decorator, if defined)
• make helpers accessible in object via :h

Example

Decorate a model in your controller:

def show
  article = Article.find(params[:id])
  @article = Artdeco.decorate(article, self)
end

def index
  articles = Article.all
  @articles = Artdeco.decorate(articles, self)
end

Then @article will be extended by module ArticleDecorator and has access to your helpers via :h

module ArticleDecorator
  def image
    h.image_tag('article')
  end
end

and your views may use the decorated model:

# app/views/articles/show.html.haml
%h1 
  Article
  = @article.image

Modules for decoration may be given explicitly:

Artdeco.decorate(user, self, decorator: Customer)

# or

Artdeco.decorate(user, self, decorators: [ Customer, Admin ] )

Also works for enumerations (anything which responds to :map):

@articles = Article.all
Artdeco.decorate(@articles, self)

For conveniance decorated objects may decorate other objects:

Artdeco.decorate(order, self)
order.decorate(shopping_card)