Rails - Sep 2009 - What am I doing wrong?

Hello,

I''m trying to display chat messages from different users, and the
content is to be read from respective partials.
When I render the partials, I get the following error: `@...'' is not
allowed as an instance variable name
This is the view:

 <% for contact in @contacts %>
  <div id="chat_content_<%= contact.partner_id%>">
   <%= render(:partial => contact.partner_id) %>
  </div>
  <div>
   <% form_tag ... do %>
    . . .
   <% end %>
  </div>
 <% end %>
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On 22 Sep 2009, at 11:38, Ngassa Carine wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I''m trying to display chat messages from different users, and the
> content is to be read from respective partials.
> When I render the partials, I get the following error: `@...'' is
not
> allowed as an instance variable name
> This is the view:
>
> <% for contact in @contacts %>
>  <div id="chat_content_<%= contact.partner_id%>">
>   <%= render(:partial => contact.partner_id) %>
Are you partial names just numeric values ? That won''t work because  
instance/local variables get created for you named after the partial  
and you can''t have an instance variable called @123

Fred
>  </div>
>  <div>
>   <% form_tag ... do %>
>    . . .
>   <% end %>
>  </div>
> <% end %>
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>
> >

Ngassa Carine wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I''m trying to display chat messages from different users, and the
> content is to be read from respective partials.
> When I render the partials, I get the following error: `@...'' is
not
> allowed as an instance variable name
Sounds like you need to render the partial and pass in the variable as 
a local variable:
<%= render :partial ''mypartial'', :locals => { :contacts
=> @contacts }
%>

And in the partial, you can now use the local variable
''contacts''.
Try that?
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Hi Aldric,
> Sounds like you need to render the partial and pass in the variable as 
> a local variable:
that''s what I also thought, but I resolved the problem by using
a different formating for ''mypatrial'', and not
contact.partner_id. The
problem is that not all ''partner_ids''  also form a valid
partial name,
since there exist some signs(like -, $ ...) which are not allowed in 
file names.

Thanks for the help.
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