Installation:

1.) Install merb-ui gem. sudo gem install merb-ui

2.) Navigate to your merb application. cd ~/your_merb_app/

3.) Copy assets to your merb application. rake slices:merb_ui:copy_assets

4.) Add to your dependencies file. vim config/dependencies.rb a

dependency ‘merb-ui’

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5.) Add options to your init file in the before_app_loads callback. vim config/init.rb a

Merb::BootLoader.before_app_loads do

Merb::Slices::config[:merb_ui][:owner] = 'Your Name' #Owner in the Copyright.
Merb::Slices::config[:merb_ui][:year] = 2000 #Year in the Copyright.

end

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6.) Add to your router file. vim config/router.rb a

slice :merb_ui

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7.) Add to your application layout file. vim app/views/layout/application.html.erb a

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”> <html xmlns=“www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=“en-us” lang=“en-us”>

<head>
  <title>Your Merb Application</title>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <%= mui_head %>
</head>
<body>
  <%= mui_body do %>
    <%= mui_bar do %>
      <%= mui_tab_group(:tab_width => '6em') do %>
        <%= mui_tab(:type => 'merb_words') %><%= mui_tab(:type => 'merb_photos') %><%= mui_tab(:title => 'Projects', :controller => 'projects', :url => url(:projects)) %>
      <% end =%>
    <% end =%>
  <% end =%>
</body>

</html>

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Advanced:

# List all available tasks: rake -T slices:merb_ui

# Put your application-level overrides in: host-app/slices/merb-ui/

# Templates are located in this order:

  1. host-app/slices/merb-ui/app/views/*

  2. gems/merb-ui/app/views/*

  3. host-app/app/views/*