[LRUG] Rails : Drying Up Views

[James Adam]

Sharing helper methods is fairly simple - either include the helper
module into your controller directly, or use the "helper :wotsit"
syntax in the controller. If you find you are including the helper in
lots of places, either have it included as part of
ApplicationController, or add/include the methods into
ApplicationHelper.

Sharing partials or views between controllers is quite easy too - you
can render a view or partial from another controller by calling

  render :action => 'other_controller/view'

or

  render :partial => 'other_controller/my_partial'

(note the lack of underscore as per usual with the partial example).

Is this what you mean?

James


On 9/11/07, Anthony Green <Anthony.Green at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Does anyone have any techniques for sharing view code generators
> (partials, helpers, yielding to content_for) across actions in different
> controllers.
>
> I¹m finding most techniques blogged about only deal with situations where
> there is more commonality between view/actions within a controller than
> view/actions (with the same name) across controllers.
>
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