Comments on: Zebra-striped tables using Rails

By: kirkh

kirkh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:59:16 +0000

strike my last comment. This works, but if you use reset_cycle it will never progress to the next item in the array. reset_cycle starts the cycle from the array[0] position (odd… odd… odd…)

By: kirkh

kirkh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:48:32 +0000

this is very outdated… it doesn’t seem to work in rails 2.2+. I can’t find it in the official API anywhere!

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:07:01 +0000

I too had a nasty (although somewhat compact) solution to this problem, but the cycle helper wins hands down. Thanks for the tip. I really like the fact that you can give it a name:
<%= cycle(”odd”, “even”, :name => “zebra”)%>
then reset just that cycle
<% reset_cycle(”zebra”) -%>
As far as the whole server or client side argument goes, I think it depends on the project. I’ve used js solutions before, but really, the rails text helpers were meant to be used in your views.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:12:36 +0000

I like the ALA approach, which is client side, and I find it’s much easier to read and code.

Add a and to your layout template and a tag to your table and the javascript handles the rest. It really cleans up the code if you have a lot of table rows.

Details here:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/zebratables/

This doesn’t work so well though if you have more than one table you want to stripe per page.

By: Mithras the Prophet

Mithras the Prophet — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:54:49 +0000

nice. though shouldn’t that be cycle(”odd”,”even”) ??

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:40:37 +0000

thanks a lot for this little tip. so much easier than anything else i’ve seen.