tidy_table.rb

This is yet another library to convert an ActiveRecord array (or any struct) to an HTML table.

You get a table with a bunch of CSS classes automatically applied (or customize it with your own classes and ids). For example, first_row (is also a th tag), first_column, last_column, even & odd (for rows).

Other tags like thead and tbody may be added in the future.

Simple example with an ActiveRecord object:

  <%= TidyTable.new(@records).to_html(%w(title description created_at)) %>

You also format the row values with a block:

  <%= TidyTable.new(@records, :table_class => "revenue_report").to_html(%w(resource visits min max)) do |row|
    [
      row.resource,
      number_with_delimiter(row.visit_count),
      row.min,
      row.max
    ]
  end %>

Or in HAML:

  = TidyTable.new(@records, :table_class => "revenue_report").to_html(%w(resource visits min max)) do |row|
    - [ row.resource, number_with_delimiter(row.visit_count), row.min, row.max ]