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There’s also a convenience method for rendering sub templates within the current controller that depends on a single object (we call this kind of sub templates for partials). It relies on the fact that partials should follow the naming convention of being prefixed with an underscore — as to separate them from regular templates that could be rendered on their own.

In a template for Advertiser#account: 

 <%= render :partial => "account" %>

This would render "advertiser/_account.rhtml" and pass the instance variable @account in as a local variable account to the template for display.

In another template for Advertiser#buy, we could have: 

  <%= render :partial => "account", :locals => { :account => @buyer } %>

  <% for ad in @advertisements %>
    <%= render :partial => "ad", :locals => { :ad => ad } %>
  <% end %>

This would first render "advertiser/_account.rhtml" with @buyer passed in as the local variable account, then render "advertiser/_ad.rhtml" and pass the local variable ad to the template for display.

Rendering a collection of partials

The example of partial use describes a familiar pattern where a template needs to iterate over an array and render a sub template for each of the elements. This pattern has been implemented as a single method that accepts an array and renders a partial by the same name as the elements contained within. So the three-lined example in "Using partials" can be rewritten with a single line: 

  <%= render :partial => "ad", :collection => @advertisements %>

This will render "advertiser/_ad.rhtml" and pass the local variable ad to the template for display. An iteration counter will automatically be made available to the template with a name of the form partial_name_counter. In the case of the example above, the template would be fed ad_counter.

NOTE: Due to backwards compatibility concerns, the collection can’t be one of hashes. Normally you’d also just keep domain objects, like Active Records, in there.

Rendering shared partials

Two controllers can share a set of partials and render them like this: 

  <%= render :partial => "advertisement/ad", :locals => { :ad => @advertisement } %>

This will render the partial "advertisement/_ad.rhtml" regardless of which controller this is being called from.

Aliases

  • render_partial_collection
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August 10, 2008
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New way of calling partials on collections

You can directly call a partial on a collection of objects like this:

<%= render :partial => @users %>

This will call the partial _user.html.erb and populate a local variable ‘user’ within the partial. Then you can display the user partial in this way:

_user.html.erb:

Name: <%= user.name %> <br />
Email: <%= user.email %> <br />

The above render statement is equivalent to this code:

<% for user in @users %>
  <%= render :partial => 'user', :locals => { :user => user } %>
<% end %>
November 7, 2008
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Add spacer template

<%= render :partial => “product”, :collection => @products, :spacer_template => “product_ruler” %>

August 26, 2009
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Passing an :object to the partial

For some reason the :object option is completely undocumented. Here’s an example usage.

# Renders the partial, making @new_person available through the local variable 'person'
render :partial => "person", :object => @new_person

(Credit goes to Catfish for the example, which I obtained from http://dev.rubyonrails.or/ticket/8518 )

September 3, 2010
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Don't forget about as

:as is a good but poorly document argument to rendering a collection:

<%= render :partial => 'some_partial', :collection => an_array, :as => :better_name -%>

Which will give you each element of an_array in the partial in a local variable named better_name not some_partial.