Sharing A Layout Among Partials

Rails
1

Using Rails 2.3.8. My site displays reviews. Depending on what context
the review is shown in the review’s heading and thumbnail change.

I’m trying to share a layout across several review partials. Each
partial would define a few snippets of HTML to be used in the layout.

Is this possible? I’ve tried several variations of the following:

#layout

.review[review]
.thumb
= yield :thumb
.details
%h4
= yield :heading
%div
Rest of layout…

Using this renders index twice (index uses a layout too):

index.html.haml

%h2 Product reviews
= image_tag(@product.url)
= render :layout => @reviews, :locals => { :product => @product } do
|section|

  • if section == :thumb
    thumb stuff

Using this causes content to be appended upon each iteration of the
content_for blocks:

index.html.haml

- @reviews.each do |review|
  - content_for :heading do
  Heading stuff...
  - content_for :thumb do
  Thumb stuff...

  = render :partial => "shared/review", :object => review, :locals

=> { :product => @product }

I know I can make the blocks locals:

= render :partial => “review”, :object => review, :locals => { :product
=> @product, :heading => link_to(image_tag(@product.url), @product.name)
}

But this gets ugly as the HTML becomes more complex. Yes, I can use
helpers, but I’d prefer to keep the somewhat larger HTML snippets in the
templates instead of doing things like:

content_tag :div, :class => dom_id(@user) do
content_tag :span, “xxxxx”

more code…

end

2

I feel its better to have different partials for different kind of
views…

Tomorrow if there is need to change the other partial view it would be
clean
and neat way…

3

Typically you’d have 1 partial for the review: views/reviews/_review. In
my case the content varies slightly based on the context/review type. I
don’t think it makes sense to have N partials per context and review
type when 85% of the layout is the same.