Ruby on Rails

On 3 January 2012 15:44, bryan <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a method called by GET myapp/products
>
> when products is called it returns data to render
>
> in a particular point inside of that render I would like to call a
> method that I generally call by
> GET myapp/news
> allow that method to render and put it into my combined output.
> in other words something that might be better suited to an Ajax
> request or an Iframe but currently I would like it to execute in one
> single request.
>
> To retrieve the rendered data from my second method  would I have to
> do it as a HTTP GET? or is there some other Rails way.

Read up on view helpers and partials for ideas on how to do this.
Extract the common code out to a helper and call it from both actions.

Colin

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