Steve Hall
Steve Hall

Reputation: 469

navbar in ruby on rails with yield

So after a couple of days of trawling various forums, tutorials etc - I'm still no closer to doing what is seemingly something straightforward - namely, have links on a Navbar populate a named yield with the contents of a partial. I'm probably missing something fundamental, but hey! I've asked this before, but I don't think I worded the question too well, so hopefully this time I'll do better!

My view:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en">
    <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
      <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
      <meta name="description" content="">
      <meta name="author" content="">
      <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../../assets/ico/favicon.ico">

      <title>Software Dev Tools Web UI</title>

    </head>
        <div class="container">
          <!-- Static navbar -->
          <div class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">
            <div class="container-fluid">
              <div class="navbar-header">
                <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
                </button>
                <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">MARS Web UI</a>
              </div>
              <div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
                <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
XXXXXXXXX
                </ul>
                <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
                  <li class="active"><a href="./">Logout</a></li>
                </ul>
              </div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
            </div><!--/.container-fluid -->
          </div>
        </div>
    <body>

        <div class="container">
        <%= yield :mainbody %>
        </div>
    </body>



    <script>
        $(".nav li").on("click", function() {
            $(".nav li").removeClass("active");
            $(this).addClass("active");
        });

    </script>

    </html>

Where I have inserted XXXXXXX above, I have tried:

<li><a href="<%= content_for :mainbody do; render 'authentication/perforce'; end %>">P4</a></li>
<li><a href="<%= content_for :mainbody do; render 'authentication/p4_output'; end %>">P4 Output</a></li>

This simply rendered both "perforce" and "p4_output" partials one below the other, and clicking the navbar options had no effect.

So then I figured maybe something more like this was required:

<li class="active"><%= link_to "Perforce", {:action => 'renderp4'}, :remote => true %></li>
<li class="active"><%= link_to "Perforce", {:action => 'renderp4_output'}, :remote => true %></li>

But at this point I came to a grinding halt, not knowing how what would be needed in my "renderp4" and "renderp4_output" actions so as to return HTML to my mainbody yield - if it is even possible?!?

Hopefully what I am trying to achieve is obvious - while I appreciate and acknowledge I am probably rather wide of the mark with my solution currently, any guidance would be appreciated. As I say, I've hunted around, but just hit a brick wall!

Thanks :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 746

Answers (1)

j-dexx
j-dexx

Reputation: 10416

Create a renderp4.js.erb file

$('.container').replaceWith('<%= escape_javascript render "authentication/perforce" %>');

Upvotes: 1

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