Rails - Dec 2005 - Basic question about partials

I''m new to Rails and working through the Agile Web Dev w\Rails book 
(which is great by the way).  My question is:  Do partials iterate by 
default?  For example,   in Chapter 10 of the before mentioned book, the 
author introduces partials and basically codes an HTML table row 
populated with ruby objects.  This code (partial) then goes into the 
HTML table but nowhere in the code (partial or view) do I see any 
iteration code.  Like I say, I''m new and I''m trying to figure
out how
the ''magic'' happens.  How does rails take one HTML row and
repeat it
throughout a table?  Does rails iterate through the
'':collection''
repeating rows as long as there is data in the '':collection''?

Thanks for any help in advance!

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Yes. :P

Check out actionpack/lib/action_view/partials.rb and render_partial_collection 
method.

Kent.

On Saturday 10 December 2005 20:48, richard downe wrote:
> I''m new to Rails and working through the Agile Web Dev w\Rails
book
> (which is great by the way).  My question is:  Do partials iterate by
> default?  For example,   in Chapter 10 of the before mentioned book, the
> author introduces partials and basically codes an HTML table row
> populated with ruby objects.  This code (partial) then goes into the
> HTML table but nowhere in the code (partial or view) do I see any
> iteration code.  Like I say, I''m new and I''m trying to
figure out how
> the ''magic'' happens.  How does rails take one HTML row
and repeat it
> throughout a table?  Does rails iterate through the
'':collection''
> repeating rows as long as there is data in the
'':collection''?
>
> Thanks for any help in advance!