Comments on: Stupid Human Tricks with Ruby on Rails’ RXML, aka XML Builder

By: Jason E. Shao » Blog Archive » Ruby, Builder, and CourseManagementXML Data

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:57:05 +0000

[...] Thanks to http://blog.katipo.co.nz/?p=29 for the tips on Builder, especially the bit about using tag! to put in names which would translate to Ruby keywords (e.g. start-date where the – makes it start – date otherwise) [...]

By: walter

walter — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:46:57 +0000

Here’s another tutorial about builder:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/04/creating-xml-with-ruby-and-builder.html

Cheers,
Walter

By: walter

walter — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:44:18 +0000

One last thing that I forgot to mention and that I used is the “||” operator for values of the XML elements if the first value isn’t found. For example:

xml.tag!(”dc:description”, params[:short_summary] || @topic.short_summary)