Rendering multiple views

Rails
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Hi,
How can i render multiple views in rails?
For example i have two .rhtml files:

header.rhtml -> a chunk of html codes to be rendered on top of the
page
sidebar.rhtml -> also a chunk of html, to be rendered in the right
side of the page

How can i call this .rhtml files from the controller and assign it to
my layout? thanks!

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On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:04 PM, [email protected]
[email protected] wrote:

How can i render multiple views in rails?
For example i have two .rhtml files:
header.rhtml → a chunk of html codes to be rendered on top of the
page
sidebar.rhtml → also a chunk of html, to be rendered in the right
side of the page
How can i call this .rhtml files from the controller and assign it to
my layout? thanks!

You do this with “content_for” calls.

In your layout file, have multiple yield commands… like this;

<%= yield :sidebar -%>
<%= yield :content -%>
<%= yield :footer -%>

Then in the partial:

<% content_for :sidebar do -%>
<%= render :partial => ‘sidebar’ -%>
<% end -%>
<% content_for :footer do -%>
<%= render :partial => ‘footer’ -%>
<% end -%>

This text ends up in the #Content div in the layout as it is the default

Hope that helps

Mikel

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oops I stuffed up on the example

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Mikel L. [email protected]
wrote:

Should be:

<%= yield :sidebar -%>
<%= yield -%>
<%= yield :footer -%>

Sorry.

Mikel

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Rails, RSpec and Life blog…

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So I can call the render method in the Views? Can i also have multiple
render method calls in the controller methods?
Thanks…

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On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:34 PM, [email protected]
[email protected] wrote:

So I can call the render method in the Views?

Yes.

Can i also have multiple
render method calls in the controller methods?

Never tried that, but that would not be good. Keep your view logic in
the views, not in the controller.

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On Jul 5, 10:34 am, “[email protected]” [email protected]
wrote:

So I can call the render method in the Views? Can i also have multiple
render method calls in the controller methods?
Thanks…

Try it and find out. It will be a hell of a lot quicker than waiting
for an answer from a mailing list. (Hint, check out the
DoubleRenderError exception ).

Fred