Sorted it with :collection

Thanks for the tip.

On Jan 15, 3:14 pm, johnsonmlw <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's exactly it. Thank you!
>
> I'll do it.
>
> What does that bit of rendering code look like. How do I keep the
> @cohort.pupils bit but tell it to go to the different directory?
>
> At the moment it looks like this and points to the pupils directory:
>
> <div id="pupils">
>         <%= render :partial => @cohort.pupils %>
> </div>
>
> I'm aware this should be obvious but I don't understand the API docs
> on this.
>
> --
> Matt
>
> On Jan 14, 11:13 pm, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I want to render a partial from two different views (class/index;
> > > cohort/index) in order to iterate (?) through the pupils model using
> > > _pupil.html.erb (in the pupils/views directory)
>
> > > class has many pupils
>
> > > cohort has many pupils
>
> > > pupil belongs to class
> > > pupil belongs to cohort
>
> > > It works well, and the _pupil.html.erb partial is rendered correctly
> > > from both views.
>
> > > * But, and this is the thing, I want the pupil partial to be slightly
> > > different in each case i.e. when it's called from cohort/index I want
> > > to display the pupil data in a table, but not when it's rendered from
> > > class/index.
>
> > > How do I go about having two _pupil.html.erb partials without breaking
> > > links between views/controllers/models please?
>
> > Why wouldn't you just move views/pupils/_pupil.html.erb into views/
> > class/_pupil.html.erb and views/cohort/_pupil.html.erb and change them  
> > to do what you want?  Then update the render :partial calls from the  
> > two calling files to look to their own version?
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