http://kill-0.com/duplo/2008/05/01/javascript-conditionals-from-erb/ Building Blocks & Learning Experiences Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:26:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://kill-0.com/duplo/2008/05/01/javascript-conditionals-from-erb/comment-page-1/#comment-631 Justin Holzer Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:50:54 +0000 http://kill-0.com/duplo/2008/05/01/javascript-conditionals-from-erb/#comment-631 I personally think what you've demonstrated here is great. I am using a similar technique in one of my own projects, and am expanding my library a bit to allow for generating generic if and else if blocks, else blocks, as well as other "canned" conditionals. It may just be "syntactic sugar", but code readability is one of the most important pieces for having a successful application IMO. The only thing I've changed from what you've done is made the method name a little more verbose and called it "if_element_exists", but at that point we're splitting hairs. Great post and thanks for the tip! I personally think what you’ve demonstrated here is great. I am using a similar technique in one of my own projects, and am expanding my library a bit to allow for generating generic if and else if blocks, else blocks, as well as other “canned” conditionals. It may just be “syntactic sugar”, but code readability is one of the most important pieces for having a successful application IMO. The only thing I’ve changed from what you’ve done is made the method name a little more verbose and called it “if_element_exists”, but at that point we’re splitting hairs. Great post and thanks for the tip!

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