Rails - May 2007 - rendering a different view depending on model attributes

Is there a good way to render a different view based on a models
attributes?  For instance, say there is a model called Form, which
belongs to an Office.  And there are 2 offices, say Pre and Post, each
one using a different view, or sharing a view.  So say we have the views

form/show.pre.rhtml
form/show.post.rhtml
form/comments.rhtml

So each office has a specific show view, but share a comments view.
Rather than code something that chooses which view to use inside each
action, I''d like that to be done automatically.  So say at a later date
I decide to split the comments view separately for each office, I can
just add a new view for each office and it picks the correct one.
Thanks for any help!

Aaron

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Would

if @form.office == "Pre"
  render :template => "form/show_pre"
else
  render :template => "form/show_post"
end

not work? Obviously, youd have to edit those view names to fit there. [Not
sure that "form/show.pre" wouldn''t have unexpected
consequences.]

RSL

On 5/3/07, Aaron Wieberg
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> Is there a good way to render a different view based on a models
> attributes?  For instance, say there is a model called Form, which
> belongs to an Office.  And there are 2 offices, say Pre and Post, each
> one using a different view, or sharing a view.  So say we have the views
>
> form/show.pre.rhtml
> form/show.post.rhtml
> form/comments.rhtml
>
> So each office has a specific show view, but share a comments view.
> Rather than code something that chooses which view to use inside each
> action, I''d like that to be done automatically.  So say at a later
date
> I decide to split the comments view separately for each office, I can
> just add a new view for each office and it picks the correct one.
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Aaron
>
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> >
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Russell Norris wrote:
> Would
> 
> if @form.office == "Pre"
>   render :template => "form/show_pre"
> else
>   render :template => "form/show_post"
> end
> 
> not work? Obviously, youd have to edit those view names to fit there. 
> [Not
> sure that "form/show.pre" wouldn''t have unexpected
consequences.]
> 
> RSL
I could do that, I was just trying to avoid that because I could see 
myself repeating myself a lot.

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Ah. perhaps write it out into a method and just call the method from the
appropriate places. I wish you could use after_filters to do renders.

RSL

On 5/3/07, Aaron Wieberg
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wrote:
>
>
> Russell Norris wrote:
> > Would
> >
> > if @form.office == "Pre"
> >   render :template => "form/show_pre"
> > else
> >   render :template => "form/show_post"
> > end
> >
> > not work? Obviously, youd have to edit those view names to fit there.
> > [Not
> > sure that "form/show.pre" wouldn''t have unexpected
consequences.]
> >
> > RSL
>
> I could do that, I was just trying to avoid that because I could see
> myself repeating myself a lot.
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
>
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