Hy,
I have a layout in the views/layout that has 2 cols and then in every view i have content_for :main_col and content_for :side_col. The problem is that i have more than 5 views with the same content in the content_for :side_col
You have a better idea on how to do this?thanks
Put it into a partial and render the partial where you need it.
app/views/shared/_sidebar.html.erb
<% content_for :sidebar do %>
Hello, I am your neighbourhood friendly sidebar!
<% end %>
app/views/somewhere/else.html.erb
<%= render :partial => "shared/sidebar" %>
If you need pass variables to your partials (what I guess you do), use a helper it's a very neat way to DRY your code:
# app/views/shared/_side_col.html.erb
<% content_for :side_col do %>
<ul>
<% menu_items.each do |item| %>
<li><%= item %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
<% end %>
# app/helpers/application_helper.rb
def side_col(menu_items)
render 'shared/_side_col', :menu_items => menu_items
end
# app/views/your/view.html.erb
<%= side_col your_menu_items_for_this_view %>
Related
I've got an application.html.erb where I want move calculation of unread user messages into some decorator/helper, basically because it looks like this:
<% if current_user %>
<%= link_to 'Messages', conversations_path %>
<% counter = #conversations.map do |conversation| %>
<% unless conversation.unread_message_count(current_user).zero? %>
<% conversation.unread_message_count(current_user) %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
(<%= counter.sum %>)
I know the basic concept of decorators but I'm wondering if I have ConversationDecorator in app/decorators/conversation_decorator.rb with defined counter method with #conversations.map block there, how to use this decorator inside of application.html.erb ?
Example ConversationDecorator:
class ConversationDecorator < ApplicationDecorator
def unread_counter
#conversations.map do |conversation|
conversation.unread_message_count(current_user) unless conversation.unread_message_count(current_user).zero?
end.sum
end
end
Is it possible to make small changes in different views?
The same partial is rendered in index.html.erb and show.html.erb as below.
index.html.erb
<%= render #schedules %>
show.html.erb
<%= render #schedules %>
What I'd like to do is not to display some value in the index.html.erb. (and display some value in both erb)
For example, I'd like to display start_at and end_at only in show.html.erb and display title in both erb.
_schedule.html.erb
<% schedule.rooms.each_with_index do |a, idx| %>
<% a.events.each do |e| %>
<%= l(e.start_at) %>-<%= l(e.end_at) %> # display only show.html.erb
<%= e.title %> #display both erb
...
<% end %>
...
<% end %>
Althogh I come up with idea which I create two partials, it contradicts the DRY policy.
It would be appreciated if you could give me any idea.
You can use controller.action_name.
<% if controller.action_name == 'show' %>
<%= l(e.start_at) %>-<%= l(e.end_at) %> # display only show.html.erb
<% end %>
The params hash also contains the action_name.
action_name is enough and do the trick but personally I don't like this. I'd do two separate partials.
Can check current action and current controller on page. So we can call single partial from different actions and can customize as per action name or action and controller name.
eg.
<% schedule.rooms.each_with_index do |a, idx| %>
<% a.events.each do |e| %>
<% if #current_controller == "events" and #current_action == "show" %>
<%= l(e.start_at) %>-<%= l(e.end_at) %> # display only show.html.erb
<% end %>
<%= e.title %> #display both erb
...
<% end %>
...
<% end %>
Also need to update Application Controller.
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_filter :instantiate_controller_and_action_names
def instantiate_controller_and_action_names
#current_controller = controller_name
#current_action = action_name
end
end
You could use CSS to hide/show the content based on context.
In practice, I have found this a good way to reuse partials that have small differences. Especially when those differences don't cost anything to compute i.e. printing a date
You can cache the partials without worrying about where they are rendered
Reduce conditional logic
Remove duplication
<% if controller.action_name == 'show' %> is fine for a simple use case. If/When you come to have multiple places where the partial needs to be rendered, it will become unwieldy. The CSS solution would only require another wrapper <div class="schedules--whatever"> and the related CSS style.
show.html.erb
<div class="schedules--show">
<%= render #schedules %>
</div>
index.html.erb
<div class="schedules--index">
<%= render #schedules %>
</div>
_schedule.html.erb
<% schedule.rooms.each_with_index do |a, idx| %>
<% a.events.each do |e| %>
<div class="event__date">
<%= l(e.start_at) %>-<%= l(e.end_at) %>
</div>
<%= e.title %>
...
<% end %>
...
<% end %>
schedules.css
.schedules--show .event__date {
display: block;
}
.schedules--index .event__date {
display: none;
}
I have a very simple requirement - I have a layout comprising of a header and body. It is a sub-layout of the page, not for the page itself.
This layout is repeated throughout multiple pages, and it is possible the structure around it will change. So I want to be able to separate the content of the header and the content of the body from the structure that contains it.
My first attempt was to use render a partial as a layout that used named yields to render a header and body:
<header class="Resource-header">
<%= yield :resource_header %>
</header>
<div class="Resource-body">
<%= yield :resource_body %>
</div>
Then render it from my templates like this:
<%= render layout: 'admin/resource' do %>
<% content_for :resource_header do %>
<% end %>
<% content_for :resource_body do %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
However, this renders nothing.
I started playing with the order of things, and discovered that if the content_for blocks are declared before the call to the partial, this approach does work:
<% content_for :resource_header do %>
<% end %>
<% content_for :resource_body do %>
<% end %>
<%= render layout: 'admin/resource' do %><% end %>
However this just feels incredibly hacky. It seems that content_for is scoped globally, and there is no association between the content_for block and the partial rendering.
So what is the correct way for me to achieve this?
I just happened to have exactly same problem.
Solution is:
in your partial layout file 'admin/resource' body:
<header class="Resource-header">
<%= yield resource, :resource_header %>
</header>
<div class="Resource-body">
<%= yield resource, :resource_body %>
</div>
in your templates do:
<%= render layout: 'admin/resource' do |resource, section| %>
<% case section %>
<% when :resource_header %>
Resource header shows here.
<% when :resource_body %>
Resource body shows here.
<% end %>
<% end %>
Take a look on rails presenters https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_presenters
Maybe your solution is cells gem.
Eventhough the question is quite old now, I had a similar issue today. I came up with sth. like this. No gem or custom class required, just some fancy block usage ;)
<!-- app/views/layouts/fancy-blocks.html.erb -->
<%
body, footer = nil
yield(
proc {|&blk| body = capture(&blk) },
proc {|&blk| footer = capture(&blk) }
)
%>
<section class="body"><%= body %></section>
<footer><%= footer %></footer>
<!-- app/views/some-other/view.html.erb -->
<%= render 'layout/fancy-blocks' do |body, footer| %>
<% body.call do %>
BODY
<% end %>
<% footer.call do %>
FOOTER
<% end %>
<% end %>
I have a table in a partial _measures_findings_list.html.erb where I want to replace the table row with another partial, which I can reuse elsewhere. MeasuresFinding is a model, so I first created a partial _measures_finding.html.erb, and tried:
<% render #measures_findings %>
then I tried
<% #measures_findings.each do |measures_finding| %>
<% render 'measures_finding', measures_finding: measures_finding %>
<% end %>
Nothing. Then
<% #measures_findings.each do |measures_finding| %>
<% render 'measures_finding/measures_finding', measures_finding: measures_finding %>
<% end %>
What am I doing wrong? Putting the code of the partial into the each loop works of course.
You miss '=', it should be
<%= render #measures_findings %>
I'm creating an application with ruby on rails where I have an items/_item.html.erb. Inside the partial is a yield statement so i can add extra content as needed. In this case, I want to add a specific button to item depending on what view calls partial.
This is what I've tried and it renders the partial, but it does not render the block:
_item.html.erb
<%= yield if block_given? %>
<div>
<%= item.name %>
</div>
someview.html.erb
...
<% render(:partial => 'items/item', :collection => current_user.items do %>
<%= "HELLO" %>
<% end %>
...
I have also tried using content_for and some other stuff with no success. Is there a way to be able to render specific content inside a partial via yield? I'm currently using Rails3
EDIT:
I've found out that it's the :collection hash that makes it impossible insert the block.
Both of this pieces of code work:
<%= render :layout => 'items/item' do %>
Hello world
<% end %>
<%= render :layout => 'items/item', :locals => {:item => current_user.items.first} do %>
Hello world
<% end %>
This means that if i do a .each i could accomplish what I want but it would be ugly code. Anyone know a way around this?
content_for should work fine in this case. Here is the code I just double checked locally.
somewhere.html.erb
<% content_for :foobar do %>
fubar
<% end %>
_item.html.erb
<% if content_for? :foobar %>
<%= yield :foobar %>
<% end %>