Victor Jalencas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > this is a question for the sidebar experts. I'm interested in having > access, from the sidebars, to information from the main controller. > I.e., I'd like to write a couple of sidebars for the article controller, > and its display action, that show the main page article's trackbacks, or > metadata, or comments count, or whatever. I could obtain the id from > the request and do a search for it, but ideally I should be able to > directly obtain the main controller's @article. > > Is there a way and I am missing something obvious, or should a > mechanism be ideated to pass the @article from the main controller to > the sidebars? I've tried using the flash object but doesn't work (or I'm > not using it correctly).
The sidebar gets passed the 'contents' being rendered, which is a list of the articles/pages/comments/whatever that's being displayed on the current page. That's probably what you want. Take a look at how the Amazon sidebar works. -- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.bofh.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
