Accessing one controller from another

Rails
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I have a posts controller and a pages controller for ‘static’ pages ie
my homepage
I want to have the latest post shown on the homepage… accessing the
posts controller from within the pages controller

Is there a way I can do this?

thanks

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:02 AM, the batman [email protected]
wrote:

I have a posts controller and a pages controller for ‘static’ pages ie
my homepage
I want to have the latest post shown on the homepage… accessing the
posts controller from within the pages controller

The posts controller doesn’t come into the picture; just get the post
info in your pages controller.

def homepage
@post = Post.latest # assuming a named scope
render …

HTH,

Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan

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what is render for?

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:58 AM, the batman [email protected]
wrote:

what is render for?

I just put that there to represent standard controller stuff – whatever
else you have in that controller method.

If you mean what does render do?, it’s time to open the API docs :slight_smile:

–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan

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that’s what I assumed but wasn’t sure if you meant render a partial…

got it working now
thanks!

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in …/layout/application.rhtml

there will be home page
<%= render :partial => ‘layouts/homepage’ %>
in home page call your all pages …which u want to show

<%= render :partial => ‘layouts/posts’ %>
<%= render :partial => ‘layouts/news’ %>
…etc

-Shyam