What's the rails way to display data from multiple models on one page

Rails
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Hi there,

I’m working on a little portfolio-site to get to know rails a little
better.
On this site I have a blog, a gallery (my portfolio) and other stuff for
which each I created a model. On the start-page I want to show a bit of
everything - some of the recent blog-entries, some pictures from the
gallery
and so on. Now I was wondering - what’s the rails way to do this? Would
you
just create a controller and a view and load the data from multiple
models
(blog, gallery, …) in the controller? Or would you create a new model
that
just has_many of the other models? Are there other, better ways? How
would
you accomplish this in rails?

Thanks in advance,
Luke

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On Jan 21, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Luke wrote:

that just has_many of the other models? Are there other, better
ways? How would you accomplish this in rails?

Thanks in advance,
Luke

I usually make a home_controller, map my :root to one of its methods,
and load up whatever models I need inside that method. I generally use
that same controller for site-wide things like search results or
contact us or about this site.

Walter

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Ok, thanks Walter!