I’m porting an old site of mine into Rails and I’m running into some
duplication that could / needs to be weeded out. For each of my
actions, I have to wrap the view content in the following HTML:
Unfortunately, I can’t add this snippet into the controller’s layout,
as each posts (think blog), needs to be wrapped in this html.
The existing, non-Rails implementation can be found at http://
www.hsgamedev.org and should be a good visual aide.
Any suggestions?
~ ryan ~
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 17:04 -0500, J. Ryan S. wrote:
~ ryan ~
Ryan,
You want partials. create a file
called /app/views/controller/action/_box.rhtml
It will look like this:
<%= content %>
You can now render it like this in your other views:
<%= render :partial => ‘box’, :locals => { :content => @foo } %>
If you’re wanting to reuse this partial for many things, I believe you
can nest it, so replace @foo with another render :partial call, with
partials named _blog.rhtml, _comment.rhtml, or whatever.
Why wouldn’t adding the code below to the controller layout work?
For example, assuming a controller named “blog”, you could have the
following in app>views>layouts>blog.rhtml:
<%= @content_for_layout %>
The “<%= @content_for_layout %>” would include whatever content each
view produced.
Sorry if I misunderstood you.
Thanks.
Steven
Jamie,
I wasn’t aware of the ability to nest render(:partial => …) calls.
I’ll re-read the docs on the render method.
~ ryan ~
Jamie,
<%= render(:partial => ‘box’, :locals => { :content => render
(:partial => ‘post’) }) %> # works
<%= render(:partial => ‘box’, :locals => { :content => “<%= link_to
‘Back’, :action => ‘list’ %>” } ) %> # doesn’t work
I’d like to try to avoid creating a partial template file for small,
one-liners like the string in the second example. Any thoughts?
~ ryan ~
Steven,
Don’t be sorry. 
I’m fairly certain this wouldn’t work because I need to, potentially,
wrap multiple blog-like posts per action. Take a look at the source
code for the site I posted in my first message to see what I mean.
~ ryan ~
Nevermind, I’m an idiot.
<%= render(:partial => ‘box’, :locals => { :content => link_to
(‘Back’, :action => ‘list’) } ) %>
~ ryan ~
On 12/27/05, J. Ryan S. [email protected] wrote:
as each posts (think blog), needs to be wrapped in this html.
You want partials. create a file
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Not sure if the overall idea is the most elegant way to go, but
<%= render(:partial => ‘box’, :locals => { :content => “<%= link_to
‘Back’, :action => ‘list’ %>” } ) %> # doesn’t work
<%= render(:partial => ‘box’, :locals => { :content => “#{link_to
‘Back’, :action => ‘list’}” } ) %> # should work
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