[Catalyst] Re: javascript in Catalyst using Template Toolkit

[kevin montuori]

>>>>> "AP" == A Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> writes:

 AP> * Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com> [2007-12-22 00:30]:

 >> on the other hand, if you are running your app on a server that you
 >> own and do admin for, and don't have such admin problems to negotiate,
 >> it would be fine, eh? horses for courses and all that.

you probably have a good point but i don't believe it.  to me this
reeks of "shortcuts" like running everything as root on a unix box or
using PHP.  i would argue that writing code as if someone else were
going to deploy it and maintain it leads to good programming practices
(as well as frills like documentation, sensible built-in debugging,
real packaging, meaningful log messages, &c.) even if you're a one man
shop.  consider: any code that you haven't looked at in six months may
as well have been written by somebody else anyway.

sorry to stray so far from the topic at hand; i've spent the last
couple years fixing former sysadmins' code/environment and your
mindset hit a nerve.  if it works for you, honestly, that's super.

 AP> Is it appreciably less work to omit the `[% c.uri_for('') %]`?

 AP> It less than 20 extra characters up front. 

obCatalyst: let me add that if you use emacs [insert emoticon of your
choice] you could define a little function like:

  (defun ii-insert-catalyst-url ()
    (interactive)
    (let ((path (read-from-minibuffer "URI: ")))
      (insert (format "<a href=\"[%% Catalyst.uri_for('%s') %%]\"></a>" path))
      (backward-char 4)))

to do the work for you.  if you're accustomed to using html-mode or
sgml-mode you might even rebind C-c C-c h (html-href-anchor):

  (add-hook 'html-mode-hook
    '(lambda ()
	(define-key html-mode-map "\C-c\C-c\h" 'ii-insert-catalyst-url)))

and there'd be no new finger memory to develop, so no extra work
whatsoever.  

cheers.
k.

-- 
kevin montuori