Newbie call one controller method inside of another's render

Rails
1

Hi,
I have a method called by GET myapp/products

when products is called it returns data to render

in a particular point inside of that render I would like to call a
method that I generally call by
GET myapp/news
allow that method to render and put it into my combined output.
in other words something that might be better suited to an Ajax
request or an Iframe but currently I would like it to execute in one
single request.

To retrieve the rendered data from my second method would I have to
do it as a HTTP GET? or is there some other Rails way.

If there is some other Rails way how should I structure it so I can
pass in a parameter to the method that is normally passed via the
querystring?

Thanks,
Bryan Rasmussen

2

On 3 January 2012 15:44, bryan [email protected] wrote:

request or an Iframe but currently I would like it to execute in one
single request.

To retrieve the rendered data from my second method would I have to
do it as a HTTP GET? or is there some other Rails way.

Read up on view helpers and partials for ideas on how to do this.
Extract the common code out to a helper and call it from both actions.

Colin

3

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:44 PM, bryan [email protected] wrote:

request or an Iframe but currently I would like it to execute in one
single request.

To retrieve the rendered data from my second method would I have to
do it as a HTTP GET? or is there some other Rails way.

If there is some other Rails way how should I structure it so I can
pass in a parameter to the method that is normally passed via the
querystring?

If I understand correctly, there are 2 views that share some common part
(that you want to show in a product view and a news view).

You could place the common part in a partial e.g.

app/views/news/_latest_news.html.haml <= note the underscore at the
start of the file name

and include that partial from the view for products and news.

If there are data required, pass them to the partial via locals.

Like this in Layouts and Rendering in Rails — Ruby on Rails Guides

3.4.4 Passing Local Variables

You can also pass local variables into partials, making them even more
powerful and flexible. For example, you can use this technique to reduce
duplication between new and edit pages, while still keeping a bit of
distinct content:

  • new.html.erb

New zone

<%= error_messages_for :zone %> <%= render :partial => "form", :locals => { :zone => @zone } %>

For you that could be something like (untested !)

product.html.haml

= render “news/latest_news” # note NO underscore here and NO .html.haml

HTH,

Peter

–
Peter V.
http://twitter.com/peter_v
http://rails.vandenabeele.com