# MVC .... Many views and one controller

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc-many-views-and-one-controller/181794>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 18, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc-many-views-and-one-controller/181794 "2010-01-18T12:40:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ralphshnelvar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc-many-views-and-one-controller/181794/1 "2010-01-18T12:40:59Z")

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What’s the right RoR way if a controller needs to display one of many  
views in, say, an index method?

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**Author:** ![ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ralphshnelvar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc-many-views-and-one-controller/181794/2 "2010-01-18T14:15:12Z")

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El Lunes, 18 de Enero de 2010, Ralph S. escribiÃ³:

> What’s the right RoR way if a controller needs to display one of many  
> views in, say, an index method?

The right way is asking in a RoR maillist rather than in a pure Ruby  
maillist.

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**Author:** ![ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ralphshnelvar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc-many-views-and-one-controller/181794/3 "2010-01-18T15:46:32Z")

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On 1/18/2010 7:23 AM, Ralph S. wrote:

> I thought this was the RoR mailing list!

Friad not. You can join the RoR mailing list at:  
[http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

Good luck!

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**Author:** ![ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ralphshnelvar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc-many-views-and-one-controller/181794/4 "2010-01-18T19:20:48Z")

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El Lunes, 18 de Enero de 2010, Ralph S. escribiÃ³:

> IÃ±aki Baz C. wrote:
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> > El Lunes, 18 de Enero de 2010, Ralph S. escribiÃ³:
> > 
> > > What’s the right RoR way if a controller needs to display one of many  
> > > views in, say, an index method?
> > 
> > The right way is asking in a RoR maillist rather than in a pure Ruby  
> > maillist.
> 
> I thought this was the RoR mailing list!

No, this is Ruby-Talk maillist 😉

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**Author:** ![ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ralphshnelvar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc-many-views-and-one-controller/181794/5 "2010-01-18T15:23:25Z")

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IÃ±aki Baz C. wrote:

> El Lunes, 18 de Enero de 2010, Ralph S. escribiÃ³:
> 
> > What’s the right RoR way if a controller needs to display one of many  
> > views in, say, an index method?
> 
> The right way is asking in a RoR maillist rather than in a pure Ruby  
> maillist.

I thought this was the RoR mailing list!

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**Author:** ![ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ralphshnelvar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc-many-views-and-one-controller/181794/6 "2010-01-18T21:22:33Z")

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> No, this is Ruby-Talk maillist 😉

This is frustrating. When I select “new topic” on this forum, one of  
the options is “Ruby on Rails”.

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**Author:** ![ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ralphshnelvar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ralphshnelvar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc-many-views-and-one-controller/181794/7 "2010-01-18T21:29:33Z")

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On 1/18/2010 1:22 PM, Ralph S. wrote:

> > No, this is Ruby-Talk maillist 😉
> 
> This is frustrating. When I select “new topic” on this forum, one of  
> the options is “Ruby on Rails”.

I’ve never used ruby-forum before, so I don’t know anything about that.

If you look however they do have a rails forum there:  
[http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/3](http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/3)

For a list of all the forums:  
[http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/)
