Rails - Feb 2006 - accessing the values in a view

trying to build an archive page

in the controller layout file, i render_component(:action =>
"archive"),
and that works fine.  i turned render(:layout => false) within the 
"archive" function.

trouble is, and here''s my confusion.  as a test, i simply write

def archive
   
    render(:layout => false)
    @archives = ''test''
   
   
  end 


and in the archive.rhtml

<%= @archives %>

but i get nothing?  shouldn''t i be able to access @archives?

matthew collins wrote:
> trying to build an archive page
>
> in the controller layout file, i render_component(:action => 
> "archive"), and that works fine.  i turned render(:layout =>
false)
> within the "archive" function.
>
> trouble is, and here''s my confusion.  as a test, i simply write
>
> def archive
>      render(:layout => false)
>    @archives = ''test''
>      end
>
> and in the archive.rhtml
>
> <%= @archives %>
>
> but i get nothing?  shouldn''t i be able to access @archives?
>
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Your archive method should be something like:

def archive
    @archives = ''test''
    render(:layout => false)
end

Call render on the last line, because it prepare view to be viewed!

-- 
Husein Choroomi,
Software Architect

Try flipping those two statements... If you render before you set the
@archives variable, I wouldn''t imagine it would be available in the
view.

> From: matthew collins <matthewcollins@cfl.rr.com>
> Reply-To: <rails@lists.rubyonrails.org>
> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:53:48 -0500
> To: <rails@lists.rubyonrails.org>
> Subject: [Rails] accessing the values in a view
> 
> trying to build an archive page
> 
> in the controller layout file, i render_component(:action =>
"archive"),
> and that works fine.  i turned render(:layout => false) within the
> "archive" function.
> 
> trouble is, and here''s my confusion.  as a test, i simply write
> 
> def archive
>    
>     render(:layout => false)
>     @archives = ''test''
>    
>    
>   end 
> 
> 
> and in the archive.rhtml
> 
> <%= @archives %>
> 
> but i get nothing?  shouldn''t i be able to access @archives?
> 
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