Ruby on Rails

On 8 December 2012 15:48, Dan Brooking <dmbrooking@gmail.com> wrote:
> No I haven't... I'll give that a look. I'm really diving head first into
> this reading things as I encounter issues.
>
> I'll give it a read. Thanks!!

Also work right through a good tutorial such as railstutorial.org
(which is free to use online) so that you understand the basics of
Rails.

Colin

>
>
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Walter Lee Davis <waltd@wdstudio.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Dan Brooking wrote:
>>
>> > I imagine this is a pretty common thing so I'm assuming there is a
>> > "rails" way to do this.
>> >
>> > I have an index page for my app and when a user logs in, I am querying
>> > various models to get lists of the objects associated with a user. I want to
>> > display this stuff on the main page of the app, kind of like a dashboard.
>> >
>> > So... basically, is there an easy way to call the index.html.erb
>> > associated with one model from within another? I've got the list of objects
>> > I'd want rendered. How would I pass that in? From my searches, it seems like
>> > I can create an ERB object, bind the var to that ERB object, and then render
>> > it. But was just wondering if that was the right way?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>> Have you read the Rails Guide on Views yet? There's a whole section on
>> "partials" that I think would answer this for you neatly. If you've got
>> multiple objects or collections already marshaled in your controller, you
>> can pass them to the render call and specify a view partial (or let the
>> conventions choose it for you) with something as simple as <%= render
>> @my_collection %> or <%= render :partial => 'foos/bar', :object => @baz %>
>>
>> Walter
>>
>>
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