On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Lasertoast <jar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm a relatively new Rails developer, but I think I have a good grasp > on the paradigm and I'm trying my best to adhere to RESTful standards. > > First, let me describe the basic structure of my Rails app (only the > pieces relevant to my problem of course): > > I have a User_Layouts controller. Each User contains multiple > User_Layouts. Each User_Layout entry describes a Module that the user > is subscribing to (and thus will be displayed on his dashboard - > essentially a collection of User_Layouts). Thus, the > User_Layouts#index should display a dashboard containing all Modules > the User is subscribed to (very similar to iGoogle). I want to be able > to create these Modules easily (perhaps using a tailored generate > script) - each module having its own model, view, and controller. > > My question is, what is the proper way to structure this? When > User_Layouts#index is invoked, how to I tell Rails to render each > Module's view and place it in the proper div on the User_Layouts#index > view? I've toyed with rendering partials, and render :update to > replace the innerHTML, but none of these seem elegant enough to be > standard practice. I would probably just create partials for each type of module. Then you can use render :partial => @module, which will render the correct partial for the object type. SH -- Starr Horne My blog: http://starrhorne.com Check out my Helpdesk RailsKit: http://railskits.com/helpdesk/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
