Cannot get partial with collections to work

Rails
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Hi everyone-

Just learning Rails, and I’m wondering if someone can help me out. I
have a story controller:

class StoriesController < ApplicationController

def index
@stories = Story.find(:all)
end

end

and an index file to render the index action:

<%= @stories.size %> stories so far. # THIS WORKS, I SEE THAT I
HAVE 2 STORIES

Stories

    <% render :partial => 'story', :collection => @stories %>

and a partial, _story.html.erb:

  • <%= story.headline %>

    • no matter what I try, I do not see the partial render. If do see that
    the variable is good, because I see the number “2” (I have 2 stories
    in the dummy database). Also, If I put static html in the partial,
    still, it doesn’t render. However, if I put some bogus embedded ruby
    in the partial, it causes an error, so I know it’s reading the
    partial.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks,
    Dino

    2

    <% render :partial => ‘story’, :collection => @stories %>
    should be
    <%= render :partial => ‘story’, :collection => @stories %>

    3

    On 25 Feb 2008, at 17:46, dino d. wrote:

    <% render :partial => ‘story’, :collection => @stories %>

    no matter what I try, I do not see the partial render. If do see that
    the variable is good, because I see the number “2” (I have 2 stories
    in the dummy database). Also, If I put static html in the partial,
    still, it doesn’t render. However, if I put some bogus embedded ruby
    in the partial, it causes an error, so I know it’s reading the
    partial.

    You need <%= render :partial … not <% render :partial
    In general things that are blatantly just going to produce a chunk of
    html go in <%= blocks

    Fred

    4

    thanks for the fast reply, i knew i was having some newbie problem!

    dino

    On Feb 25, 12:56 pm, Frederick C. [email protected]