Yup. Thanks to both Matt and Adam. Right there in the documentation
and code that my eyes actually did aim at at some point!
-glenn
Matt Aimonetti wrote:
> I guess you could try:
>
> <%= error_messages_for :author, :object => author %>
>
> - Matt
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Glenn Little <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to call error_messages_for() in a partial.
> error_messages_for at some point does this:
>
> objects = params.collect {|object_name|
> instance_variable_get("@#{object_name}") }.compact
>
> Basically, it needs to be pointed to an instance variable, not passed
> an object itself. However, partials give you local vars, not
> instance vars.
>
> I can explicitly create an instance var like this:
>
> (in _author.rhtml):
>
> @author = author
> ...
> <%= error_messages_for(:author) %>
> ...
>
> But that seems clunky. I'm just wondering if there's a more
> rails-approved (tm) idiom for doing this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -glenn
>
>
>
>
> >
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