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colllin
colllin

Reputation: 9779

Rendering a Heterogeneous Collection: How can I specify a single directory for the partials?

I have a collection, @comments, that is heterogeneous but hierarchical. Each comment is either an instance of Comment or some derived class, like ActionComment or InactionComment. I am rendering a different partial for each type of Comment. The View code is:

= render @comments

As all the partials are related, I would like to keep them in a single view directory, i.e.:

But right now in order to use the automatic rendering of the correct partial, I am using separate directories, like:

Upvotes: 2

Views: 693

Answers (2)

not an ai
not an ai

Reputation: 1823

Rails 3.2 makes a Model#to_partial_path method available which allows you (as its name suggests) to override the partial pathname.

  def to_partial_path
    self.action.to_s
  end

The path it returns does not include the leading underscore and is assumed to be relative to .../views/modelname/. See http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2012/01/my-five-favorite-hidden-features-in-rails-3-2/ for an overview

Upvotes: 4

Nader
Nader

Reputation: 5595

You can't do it quite as magically, but you can do it by just rendering each item individually and specifying the partial.

example in haml:

- @comments.each do |c|
  = render :partial => "comments/#{c.class.to_s.underscore}", :locals => {:comment => c}

Upvotes: 1

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