Hi! I think I''m trying to accomplish something very common, but I can''t find a way to do it. Creating a certain type of database record is a very frequent task in my application (or at least it should be ;-)). So I want to be able to place the form for creating that database record in practically any view, not just the /mymodel/new view. I figured that this might be done using a partial, but since I''m pretty new to rails, I don''t get it one. Can anybody point me to a tutorial for this problem? I''m using rails 2.3.5. Thank you! Marian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
On Apr 2, 4:27 pm, Marian Steinbach <marian.steinb...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Creating a certain type of database record is a very frequent task in > my application (or at least it should be ;-)). So I want to be able to > place the form for creating that database record in practically any > view, not just the /mymodel/new view.I''m sure you can refactor code to fit almost anything into a single new/edit partial :) But in my small experience the models are different enough so that having different views for different models makes the code more readable. That said, I almost always share new and edit for a model in a partial: e.g. new.html.erb <%= render( :partial => "form", :locals => { :buttonname => ''Add'' } ) %> edit.html.erb <%= render( :partial => "form", :locals => { :buttonname => ''Update'' } ) %> _form.html.erb <%= error_message_on :lab, :base %> <% form_for ..., do |f| %> <%= f.submit buttonname %> ... <% end %> Ryan Bates has great screencasts on this sort of thing, and I found his Mastering Rails Forms http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-rbforms/mastering-rails-forms ($5 a video) to be a great start. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
On 2 April 2010 22:27, Marian Steinbach <marian.steinbach-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hi! > > I think I''m trying to accomplish something very common, but I can''t > find a way to do it. > > Creating a certain type of database record is a very frequent task in > my application (or at least it should be ;-)). So I want to be able to > place the form for creating that database record in practically any > view, not just the /mymodel/new view. > > I figured that this might be done using a partial, but since I''m > pretty new to rails, I don''t get it one.Assuming you know the basics of rendering a partial within a view (if not look at the guides at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/) then all you have to do is include a path in the render partial to tell it where it is. render :partial => "/somefolder/form" will look for views/somefolder/_form.html.erb Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.