Module: PlaceholderHelper

Defined in:
app/helpers/placeholder_helper.rb

Overview

Provides the ‘placeholder` helper method for showing standard markup for when thing are missing or not present yet.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#placeholder(label = nil, tag: :p) ⇒ String

Display a placeholder message using standardized markup and a message defined through I18n.

When in a controller PostsController and action index, this will try to look up the following placeholder keys:

  • placeholders.posts.index

  • placeholders.posts.default

  • placeholders.defaults.index

You can also provide an argument to set the placeholder message. When given a string, it will be used directly as the placeholder message. When given a symbol, that key will be looked up in the ‘placeholders.defaults` namespace using I18n.

Returns:

  • (String) —

    e.g. ‘<p class=“placeholder”>Nothing to show</p>’



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# File 'app/helpers/placeholder_helper.rb', line 20

def placeholder(label = nil, tag: :p)
  content_tag(tag, placeholder_text(label), class: 'placeholder')
end