Rails newbie: why is my partial template not rendering?

[dan.caugherty]

Hi there,

I wanted to be a good Rails programmer, and use a shared partial
template for
common view logic (in this case, displaying information about users).

The view code that uses the render() call looks (something) like this:

<p>And now, the hat sizes of our users... </p>
<% renderpartial => "shared/user", :locals => { :user => @user })
-%>

...and my app/views/shared/user.rthml file looks like:

<p><%=h user.name -%></p><p><%=h user.hat_size -%></p>

Now, the files are named and located where they should be as far as I
can tell,
but I never see my users' names or hat sizes rendered. Viewing the HTML
source
of the resulting page shows.. nothing at all. Nothing is rendered,
maybe not even
whitespace!

Any ideas as to what's going on? What am I missing? I'm stumped.

Thx in advance,
-- Dan C.

 

[James Britt]

Hi there,

I wanted to be a good Rails programmer, and use a shared partial
template for
common view logic (in this case, displaying information about users).

You may get better, faster answers asking rails questions on the rails
mailing list:

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

 

[Logan Capaldo]

Hi there,

I wanted to be a good Rails programmer, and use a shared partial
template for
common view logic (in this case, displaying information about users).

The view code that uses the render() call looks (something) like
this:

<p>And now, the hat sizes of our users... </p>
<% renderpartial => "shared/user", :locals => { :user => @user })
-%>

..and my app/views/shared/user.rthml file looks like:

<p><%=h user.name -%></p><p><%=h user.hat_size -%></p>

Now, the files are named and located where they should be as far as I
can tell,

No they aren't

it has to be app/views/shared/_user.rhtml to be a partial.

 

[Max Muermann]

The view code that uses the render() call looks (something) like this:

<p>And now, the hat sizes of our users... </p>
<% renderpartial => "shared/user", :locals => { :user => @user })
-%>

Ah, I've done this many many times... You're missing a "="

<% render ...

should be
<%= render ...

And the partial file name needs to start with an underscore.

Cheers,
Max

 

[Greg Donald]

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[Eric Hodel]

[rails question]

[rails answer]

If you're going to answer a Rails question send the answer to the
Rails list and CC the author. Rails has its own mailing list full of
helpful smiling people.

 

[Matt Todd]

Both Logan's and Max's answers are right on the money. That should set
you up just fine.

The Rails list recently moved to:
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk

I'd definitely join this mailing list as it will be much more focused
on Rails. (And, besides, who likes hearing messages about posting
questions on the other list anyhow? Hehehe.)

By the by, did you know you don't have to put the ()s in the message passing?

<%= renderpartial => "shared/user", :locals => { :user => @user }) -%>

could be

<%= render artial => "shared/user", :locals => { :user => @user } -%>

which is a bit cleaner in my opinion. (That whole signal verses noise thing.)

Cheers,

M.T.

P.S. -- Come to think of it, I'm not sure if you have to specify
"shared/_user" or just "shared/user" as your partial template. Hmm.

 

[James Britt]

The Rails list recently moved to:
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk

Ah. Thanks.

Too bad lists.rubyonrails.org doesn't have this info.



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[Austin Ziegler]

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The rails list, I think, has changed to using a Google Group.

-austin

 

[dan.caugherty]

Thank you everyone for showing me the error of my ways
(the missing =, and alerting me to the presence of the Rails group).

And yes, this topic does need to be in a FAQ somewhere. Argh!

Cheers,
-- Dan C.