module ActionView::Helpers::RecordTagHelper

def content_tag_for(tag_name, record, *args, &block)


  • ...

    produces:

    <%= content_tag_for(:li, @person, :class => "bar") %>...

    with the default class name for your object. For example:
    additional HTML attributes. If you specify a :class value, it will be combined
    content_tag_for also accepts a hash of options, which will be converted to

    ...

    produces:

    <%= content_tag_for(:tr, @person, :foo) do %> ...

    If you require the HTML id attribute to have a prefix, you can specify it:

    ....

    a Person object, with an id value of 123):
    would produce the following HTML (assuming @person is an instance of

    <% end %>
    <%=h @person.last_name %>
    <%=h @person.first_name %>
    <%= content_tag_for(:tr, @person) do %>

    that relate to the specified Active Record object. For example:
    content_tag_for creates an HTML element with id and class parameters 
    • def content_tag_for(tag_name, record, *args, &block)
  prefix  = args.first.is_a?(Hash) ? nil : args.shift
  options = args.extract_options!
  options.merge!({ :class => "#{dom_class(record, prefix)} #{options[:class]}".strip, :id => dom_id(record, prefix) })
  content_tag(tag_name, options, &block)
end

    def div_for(record, *args, &block)


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    produces:

    <% end %>
    <%=h @person.name %>
    <%= div_for(@person, :class => "foo") do %>

    relate to the specified Active Record object. Usage example:
    Produces a wrapper DIV element with id and class parameters that 
    def div_for(record, *args, &block)
  content_tag_for(:div, record, *args, &block)
end