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2006 Feb 14
22
Teaching Models to Render Themselves in the Controller
...AJAX call. So, I simply render the
partial from my controller. Not too bad, as long as I can keep
straight what partial to call and what locals I need to pass where.
However, to make things a little easier on myself, I can create a
helper method in the controller like this:
helper_method :render_contact
def render_contact(contact)
render_partial(''contact_view'', :contact => my_contact)
end
I can now call this same function from my view to render the page
initially, and from my controller to render new contacts for AJAX calls.
The next step is where I''ve run into t...