render array in view with Ruby - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm new to Ruby and I try to render an array which is in a separate file called database.rb:
Data = [
{
title: "First",
content: "Lorem ipsum...",
photo: "image1"
},
{
title: "Second",
content: "Eventually ...",
photo: "image2"
},
{
title: "Third",
content: "also to Kim’s ....",
photo: "image3"
}
]
I now want to render this array in a view.
In my app.rb I have this code:
require "sinatra"
require "sinatra/activerecord"
require_relative "database"
["/", "/articles"].each do |path|
get path do
#database = Data
erb :index
end
end
In my view index:
<% #database.each do |article| %>
<!-- Blog Post -->
<div class="card mb-4">
<img class="card-img-top" src="<%= article.photo %>" alt="">
<div class="card-body">
<h2 class="card-title oink"><%= article.title %></h2>
<p class="card-text oink"><%= article.content %></p>
</div>
<div class="card-footer text-muted">
</div>
</div>
<% end %>
How to get this to work? Because it seems that properties title, content and photo are not recognized.
What I should do? creating a model? but how?

Answer 1

Your array is made of hash items. If you want to stick with hashes, this is the way to access values (by key)
<!-- Blog Post -->
<div class="card mb-4">
<img class="card-img-top" src="<%= article[:photo] %>" alt="">
<div class="card-body">
<h2 class="card-title oink"><%= article[:title] %></h2>
<p class="card-text oink"><%= article[:content] %></p>
</div>
<div class="card-footer text-muted">
</div>
</div>
Otherwise, if you want to have methods, you might use Ruby Struct
Article = Struct.new(:title, :content, :photo)
Data = [
Article.new("First", "Lorem ipsum...", "image1"),
Article.new("Second", "Eventually ...", "image2"),
Article.new("Third", "also to Kim’s ....", "image3")
]
Now you can do it like in your snippet