Security and Engineering

hm… hm… hm… hm

I’m a bit unsatisfied with mobile-fu for rails. Sure, it’s great in general, but I want to have different templates for mobile rjs and default rjs and i think it’s a bit clumsy to do it like that:

application.html.erb

def mobile?
  return session[:mobile_view]
end

# distinct between mobile and non-mobile js (mobile-fu)
# only supports :template paramter for mobile-enabled js

def render_mobilized_js(options = nil)
  # if we’re not mobile => render like there is no mobile

  unless mobile?
    return render options if options
    return render
  end

  # render mobilized rjs template

  ops = (options || {}).dup

  ops[:template] ||= “#{controller_name}/#{action_name}”
  ops[:template] += “.mobile_js.rjs”

  return render ops
end

but now I’m able to do this

respond_to do |format|
  format.html
  format.js { render_mobilized_js }
end

But in an ideal world i don’t want to call render at all. I want rails or mobile-fu to do it for me:

respond_to do |format|
  format.html
  format.js
  format.mobile_js
end

Not yet possible - and if it would be possible it would break dependencies. Therefore i keep using my method - unless anyone points me a step towards the elegant solution… anyone?

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