Passing local to template to partial

Rails
1

I want to pass an array to a template as a local variable. The template
passes the same local variable to a partial as a local variable. This
isn’t
working as I expect and something in the back of my mind is says that I
read
something about this. Nothing shows up in the first three pages of my
Google
search and it’s degenerating into Japanese train (rail) passes.

Help,
Jeffrey

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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Jeffrey L. Taylor
[email protected] wrote:

I want to pass an array to a template as a local variable. The template
passes the same local variable to a partial as a local variable. This isn’t
working as I expect and something in the back of my mind is says that I read
something about this. Nothing shows up in the first three pages of my Google
search and it’s degenerating into Japanese train (rail) passes.

Sample of the code that does not work as expected would help us help
you.

Documentation on templates:

Documentation on partials:
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Partials.html

Both documents show how to pass variables in.

-Michael

–
Michael C. Libby
www.mikelibby.com

3

Quoting M. Libby [email protected]:

Sample of the code that does not work as expected would help us help you.

Documentation on templates:
ActionView::Base
Documentation on partials:
Peak Obsession

Both documents show how to pass variables in.

But neither show passing locals to actions, e.g.

render :action => ‘new’, :locals => {:universe => ‘abc’}

I have looked at a bunch of examples and none do this.

In fact, I think the first URL lists obsolete APIs. Where it reads:

render “shared/header”, { :headline => “Welcome”, :person => person }

I believe the correct API for recent versions of Rails (I’m using 2.1.2)
is:

render “shared/header”, :locals=>{:headline => “Welcome”, :person =>
person}

From my experiments, it appears passing locals to actions in
unsupported.
I’ve changed to passing the needed information thru an instance variable
to
the action template and a local variable to the partial.

Thanks,
Jeffrey

4

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

Quoting M. Libby [email protected]:

Sample of the code that does not work as expected would help us help you.

Documentation on templates:
ActionView::Base
Documentation on partials:
Peak Obsession

Both documents show how to pass variables in.

But neither show passing locals to actions, e.g.

render :action => ‘new’, :locals => {:universe => ‘abc’}

I have looked at a bunch of examples and none do this.

In fact, I think the first URL lists obsolete APIs. Where it reads:

render “shared/header”, { :headline => “Welcome”, :person => person }

I believe the correct API for recent versions of Rails (I’m using 2.1.2)
is:

render “shared/header”, :locals=>{:headline => “Welcome”, :person =>
person}

From my experiments, it appears passing locals to actions in
unsupported.
I’ve changed to passing the needed information thru an instance variable
to
the action template and a local variable to the partial.

Thanks,
Jeffrey

No, I don’t think you can pass locals to render :action.

Try render :partial => ‘shared/header’, :locals => {…}

Note that the partial filename must be /views/shared/_header.html.erb

5

You can pass the variable to the action with an instance variable, and
from there you can pass the instance variable to the partial, I would
think.

def whatever
@locals => { :universe => ‘abc’ }
render :action => ‘new’
end

Hope that helps.

– Josh
http://iammrjoshua.com

Jeremy Weiskotten wrote:

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

Quoting M. Libby [email protected]:

Sample of the code that does not work as expected would help us help you.

Documentation on templates:
ActionView::Base
Documentation on partials:
Peak Obsession

Both documents show how to pass variables in.

But neither show passing locals to actions, e.g.

render :action => ‘new’, :locals => {:universe => ‘abc’}

I have looked at a bunch of examples and none do this.

In fact, I think the first URL lists obsolete APIs. Where it reads:

render “shared/header”, { :headline => “Welcome”, :person => person }

I believe the correct API for recent versions of Rails (I’m using 2.1.2)
is:

render “shared/header”, :locals=>{:headline => “Welcome”, :person =>
person}

From my experiments, it appears passing locals to actions in
unsupported.
I’ve changed to passing the needed information thru an instance variable
to
the action template and a local variable to the partial.

Thanks,
Jeffrey

No, I don’t think you can pass locals to render :action.

Try render :partial => ‘shared/header’, :locals => {…}

Note that the partial filename must be /views/shared/_header.html.erb