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ViewDelegates makes easy to write reusable view components with decoupled functionality from the active record models

Only tested with ruby 2.5 and rails 5.1.6, should work with any rails version over 5.0 but i don't know about the ruby version. Could'nt made travis work #Usage Create a ruby class implementing this gem base class ViewDelegates::ViewDelegate. I recommend to place the view delegates under a folder on your applications app named '/view_delegates'. Then just add your logic.

 module Admin
   class AdminTestDelegate < ViewDelegates::ViewDelegate
     view_local :test_method
     property :my_property
     model :dummy, properties: [:a]
     polymorph do
	   if my_property == 1
		BasicDelegate
	   else
		 PolymorphicDelegate
	   end
     end
     cache true
     def test_method
       'test_method'
     end
   end
 end

• view_local executes a method of the class and adds it to the render as a local parameter.
• property creates an accessor to add extra variables to the view delegate
• model also creates an accessor but permits to reject other properties not wanted to have in your view. pass to to the properties array any properties you will need in your view and the rest will be discarted
• cache is an optional parameter, pass a size: parameter to change the default size of the cache pool. Default: 50
• polymorph gives polymorphism to our delegates, just return a class based on conditions of the properties of your base delegate to transform your view delegate this is really useful in case of STI based models.

Create an instance from the delegate you want to render

@delegate = Admin::AdminTestDelegate.new(dummy: @dummy, my_property: 'My property test')

And call render from that instance passing as a symbol the view you want to render @delegate.render(:index) If you want to use any extra params on one view @delegate.render(:index, local_params: {optional_param: 'coreSegmentFault'

To know where your class will look for your view, open your console and call .view_path

2.5.0 :004 > Admin::AdminTestDelegate.view_path
 => "admin/admin_test" 

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'view_delegates'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install view_delegates

Any contribution is accepted gladly. We only require two things:

• Add test cases for your added functionaly
• Add documentation
• Don't change any existing functionality for retro-compatibility

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.