# Reuse Partials **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 30, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reuse-partials/95388 "2006-05-30T23:18:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aibean)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reuse-partials/95388/1 "2006-05-30T23:18:55Z")
Hi all, This is my first official post as RoR developer, so here it is. I’ve got a partial for a Address (Postcode, Address, City, …). I want to use this partial multiple times on the same form? So I want to fill in multiple addresses and insert them individualy. How do I go about doing this? Kind Regards, Eugene L. ---
**Author:** ![aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aibean)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reuse-partials/95388/2 "2006-05-30T23:33:13Z")
Hi, You can pass a collection argument when you call the partial and it will render for each object: \<%= render :partial =\> ‘address’, :collection =\> @addresses %\> Check out the render :partial section of the API for more info: [http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000206](http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000206) Hope that helps, Steve Eugene L. wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first official post as RoR developer, so here it is. > I’ve got a partial for a Address (Postcode, Address, City, …). I want > to use this partial multiple times on the same form? So I want to fill > in multiple addresses and insert them individualy. How do I go about > doing this? > > Kind Regards, > Eugene L. ---
**Author:** ![aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aibean)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reuse-partials/95388/3 "2006-05-31T00:49:12Z")
I think I’ve found the problem, I need to give each partial that I render a new ID, but how do I go about doing that? Eugene L. wrote: > Not exactly, > > The addresses is all over the form. Doesn’t follow on each other. So the > one is a delivery address and the other a billing address? > > > Eugene L. wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > This is my first official post as RoR developer, so here it is. > > > I’ve got a partial for a Address (Postcode, Address, City, …). I want > > > to use this partial multiple times on the same form? So I want to fill > > > in multiple addresses and insert them individualy. How do I go about > > > doing this? > > > > > > Kind Regards, > > > Eugene L. ---
**Author:** ![aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aibean)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reuse-partials/95388/4 "2006-05-31T00:54:19Z")
On 5/31/06, Eugene L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Not exactly, > > The addresses is all over the form. Doesn’t follow on each other. So the > one is a delivery address and the other a billing address? Look at the :locals parameter in the API docs that Steve pointed you to. cheers, Ben ---
**Author:** ![aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aibean)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reuse-partials/95388/5 "2006-05-31T00:07:08Z")
Not exactly, The addresses is all over the form. Doesn’t follow on each other. So the one is a delivery address and the other a billing address? Stephen B. wrote: > Hi, > > You can pass a collection argument when you call the partial and it will > render for each object: > > \<%= render :partial =\> ‘address’, :collection =\> @addresses %\> > > Check out the render :partial section of the API for more info: > [Peak Obsession](http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000206) > > Hope that helps, > > Steve > > Eugene L. wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > This is my first official post as RoR developer, so here it is. > > I’ve got a partial for a Address (Postcode, Address, City, …). I want > > to use this partial multiple times on the same form? So I want to fill > > in multiple addresses and insert them individualy. How do I go about > > doing this? > > > > Kind Regards, > > Eugene L. ---
**Author:** ![aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@aibean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aibean)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reuse-partials/95388/6 "2007-03-06T21:10:14Z")
Eugene L. wrote: > I think I’ve found the problem, I need to give each partial that I > render a new ID, but how do I go about doing that? > > > Not exactly, > > > > The addresses is all over the form. Doesn’t follow on each other. So the > > one is a delivery address and the other a billing address? > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > This is my first official post as RoR developer, so here it is. > > > > I’ve got a partial for a Address (Postcode, Address, City, …). I want > > > > to use this partial multiple times on the same form? So I want to fill > > > > in multiple addresses and insert them individualy. How do I go about > > > > doing this? Did you ever get a satisfactory solution to this? I have a similar problem; I’d like to reuse a small snippet of HTML several times in a page, with the div contents (within the snippet) being arbitrarily large and/or complex. As a total beginner, I would have hoped that I could call render :partial multiple times, and let it “call back” to let its caller render the div contents. But I have no idea how to do that.