On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Philip Gavrilos < rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> > Eric wrote: > > On Aug 8, 4:08�pm, Philip Gavrilos <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> > > wrote: > >> > � <% end %> > >> > >> i did not understand my error here its because im newbie in ruby ( :P ) > >> (if _preview was _post everything was fine.. i think that is because > >> naming conventions right?) > > > > It worked with _post because Rails creates an object for the partial > > with the same name as the partial filename. Since you were using > > post.body, etc. in the partial, Rails picked up the post object and > > displayed everything normally. This broke when you named the partial > > 'preview' because you were still using post.body, etc. When you use > > _preview as the partial's filename you also need to change the lines > > in the partial itself to preview.body, etc. in order for it to work. > > > > Furthermore, you can change your instance variable to @previews and > > do: > > > > render :partial => @previews > > > > and Rails will look for a posts/_preview.html.erb file, create a > > 'preview' variable for each element of the @previews object, which can > > then be used with same preview.body, etc. syntax in the _preview > > partial as outlined above. > > > > TIMTOWTDI, natch, but I think this all is pretty close to what you're > > asking about. > > > > -eric > > > > thanks Eric. > your article explain me tha way that partials work. simple and clean :) > > but tight now i use the solution that Jaap told me (look above) and > works fine. > do you know the difference between them ? is Jaap solution os yours more > "right" ? > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > Hi, another possibility would be to use a custom local variable that was introduced in Rails 2.2. For example, render :partial => "posts/preview", :collection => @posts, :as => :post Good luck, -Conrad > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
