Spurs

Spurs is a library that adds some bells and whistles to the Twitter Bootstrap GUI framework.

There are many independent components of spurs, and some require more set up than others.

To get started, in your gemfile, add

gem 'spurs'

and then run

bundle install

From the rails side, you can create four types of messages: :notice, :warning, :info and :error

flash_addItem(:notices,"A message about something successfully happening!")

It's especially easy to add model errors as flash messages. Here's a typical use

m = Message.new(:title => "hello", :body => "world!")
if !m.save
  flash_addModelErrors(m)
end

You can also use JavaScript to generate matching messages

spurs.flash.alert("Something has gone wrong!","error");

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Spurs makes creation of bootstrap navigation easy!.

= spurs_nav :type => :pills do |nav|
    = nav.tab :user, :icon => :user, :href => "#user"
    = nav.tab :settings, :icon => :cog, :onclick => "alert('hello');"

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Alerts are styled to match flash messages. Creating an in-place alert is done as follows

= spurs_alert_box do
  This is a basic alert

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Spurs can present a modal as a response to an asynchronous request.

For example, if your request is

$.get({url: '/blogs/MY_BLOG/posts/new.js'});

Your controller response might look like

@blog = Blog.find(params[:blog_id])
respond_to do |format|
  format.js {
    spawn_modal("Create a new blog post",  #Title of the modal
                "blogs/posts/new", # Path to a partial to render in the modal body.
                @blog, # Object that the partial is rendering. Can be nil if the previous argument is not a partial
                :title_icon => '/assets/new_blog_post_icon.png' # Path to an icon shown in the title bar of the modal
                :modal_options => {} # A hash passed to the partial as local variables
                ) 
  }
end

You can also use a method

spawn_form_modal(...) #same arguments as spawn_modal

which will show a modal with an "OK" button in the footer. Pressing this button will submit any form in the .modal-body div.