ActionPresenter

Missing link between models and views. Use presenter pattern in Rails application without changing controllers.

Based on 'Presenters from Scratch' by Ryan Bates.

Add action_presenter to Gemfile

gem 'action_presenter'
# or
gem 'action_presenter', git: 'git@github.com:zlw/action_presenter.git'

and than install

# for RSpec
rails generate action_presenter:install -t rspec

# for Test::Unit
rails generate action_presenter:install -t test_unit

Gem was tested under Ruby 1.9.2 and 1.9.3, Rails 3.2.1

# /app/presenters/post_presenter.rb
class PostPresenter < ActionPresenter::Base
  presents :post

  def title
    link_to_unless_current post.title, post_path(post), class: :post_title_link
  end

  def content
    content_tag :pre, post.content
  end
end

You can use all view helpers without any changes. Reference to model by method with the name passed to presents class method.

# /app/views/posts/index.html.haml
- present @post do |p|
  = p.title
  = p.content

It will call (by default) PostPresenter (assuming that @post variable is instance of Post class)

There are some ways to change default presenter class

present @post, ArticlePresenter

It will call ArticlePresenter class

present [:admin, @post]

It will call Admin::PostPresenter class

Please, keep in mind, that passing presenter class has higher priority than scope:

present [:admin, @post], ArticlePresenter

It will also call ArticlePresenter class

There're some default presenter methods. They're generated if object respond to those methods

- present @article do |p|
 = p.created_at #=> "February 17, 2012 12:30"
 = p.updated_at #=> "February 17, 2012 13:27"

It's also possible to change timestamps format

- present @article do |p|
  = p.created_at :short
  = p.updated_at :long

There's RSpec inspired way to define methods

class ArticlePresenter < ActionPresenter::Base
  presents :article

  let(:link_to_title) { link_to_unless_current article.title, article_path(article) }

  let(:render_article) do
    html = ''.html_safe

    html += content_tag :h1, article.title
    html += content_tag :p, article.content

    html
  end
end

require 'spec_helper'

describe ArticlePresenter do
  include ActionView::TestCase::Behavior

  let(:article) { mock_model(Article) }
  let(:presenter) { ArticlePresenter.new(article, view) }
end

You can change RSpec configuration to include ActionView::TestCase::Behavior in all specs in /spec/presenters folder

RSpec.configure do |config|
  # a lot of code here ...

  config.include ActionView::TestCase::Behavior, example_group: { file_path: %r{spec/presenters} }
end

require 'test_helper'

class TestArticlePresenter < ActionView::TestCase
end

Well, I am not sitting all day and thinking about fancy stuff that I could add to action_presenter. Everytime I need something I add this to my current project, than extract it to this gem and release a new version.

If you need something - please create an issue with feature request or, wchich is more welcome (my time is also limited), send pull request.

Also if you something is missing/broken, please do not think Man, this gem sucks and its author is shitty coder and no longer use it! Let me know about it - create an issue or send patch.

• Krzysztof Zalewski (https://github.com/zlw, http://kzalewski.blogspot.com)

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