it does partly - although I'm thinking more generically. For instance, let's take the navigation for an app where it's state is dependant on some data in the DB. I don't really want my page action to have to know anything about the nav at all, as that's the layouts job to know what's on the page, but I require a controller to provide the navigation with data. >From what I understand of partials these are kinda headless in that they render a given variable, but don't have any interaction with the controller per se.
How do I go about rendering in this way? How do I let the layout kick of code to render chunks of a page that contain data without contaminating my page actions? Neil On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:01 PM, John Yerhot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Neil, > > Well, I'd go about it with a partial for the actual view part. If you > simply need to just display it on a couple of actions, use a > before_filter to call a method that sets variables only on those > actions which require the submenu... then in your layout or view check > that the variable is set and render the partial. > > Otherwise, if you have a authentication system, set the variables in > there. restful_authentication does this by providing logged_in? and > current_user for you. > > Hope that makes sense. :) > > John > > > On Apr 1, 4:04 am, Neil Middleton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm pretty new to Rails and have an issue which I can't quite get my > > head around as to the architecturally 'correct' way of doing it. > > > > Problem relates to what I kinda call sub-controllers. The scenario is > > this: > > > > I have a series of pages, on which is a panel of some form containing > > some information (think the user panel on gitHub top right). > > > > So, in my app, I have controllers that generate the data for the pages > > and render out the responses which is fine, but when it comes to this > > panel, it seems to me that you would want some sort of controller action > > dedicated to generating this panel and it's view. > > > > Question is, how do you go about doing this? How do I render a 'sub > > controller' from within a view? > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > -- Neil Middleton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
