View documentation incorrect as of Ember 1.8 / views possibly unsupported?

[lwisne]

Before Ember 1.8 came out, I could do:

Ember.Select content=options value=value

And this is how all the emblem guides suggest I should do things. Now, doing that gives a deprecation warning:

"Resolved the view "Ember.Select" on the global context. Pass a view name to be looked up on the container instead, such as {{view "select"}}. http://emberjs.com/guides/deprecations#toc_global-lookup-of-views-since-1-8"

I read the guide on this, but I simply cannot get the new syntax to work in any way within emblem. I'm not even sure it's supported at all. Please advise - I can't be using a tempting engine that gives scary deprecation warnings on such basic functionality.

[machty]

@lwisne can you try

= view 'select' content=options value=value

[lwisne]

That actually works. My example was not a terribly good one, because I'm actually having this problem with Ember.TextField or any custom view. Didn't realize it works for vanilla selects (I use a subclass with some modifications).

Sorry about that. Here's something that gives the same deprecation but doesn't appear to have an obvious resolution:

Ember.TextField value=value

I know the suggested Ember way to do this for a while has been with the input view helper, but that doesn't work in emblem because of clash with the native input tag. The obvious solution in emblem,

= view 'input' value=value

doesn't work.

[machty]

I think it'd be

= input value=value

Lines preceded with = are always interpreted as helper invocations.

[lwisne]

That works. I think this covers all the cases I was having trouble with. Probably worth updating the documentation!

Old:

Ember.Select content=options value=value

New:

= view 'select' content=options value=value

Old:

Ember.TextField value=value

New:

= input value=value

Old:

Ember.Checkbox value=value

New:

= input type="checkbox" value=value

Old:

MyCustomView param1=value

New:

= view 'my-custom' param1=value

Note on the last case: I think this change actually made it impossible to have a view class without the suffix "-View". This is an Ember, not Emblem thing. Really fun to figure that one out with trial and error for those of us who subclassed Ember.Select with something like Ember.CustomSelect.

[machty]

@lwisne while it's fresh on your brain could you please put in a PR to https://github.com/machty/emblem-site for some of these docs?

[lwisne]

done. Thanks for the help, and for maintaining the gem!

[thec0keman]

Closing in favor of #281