accessing one controller from another

rubyonrails-talk
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I have a posts controller and a pages controller for 'static' pages ie my homepage I want to have the latest post shown on the homepage.... accessing the posts controller from within the pages controller

Is there a way I can do this?

thanks

2

The posts controller doesn't come into the picture; just get the post info in your pages controller.

def homepage    @post = Post.latest # assuming a named scope    render ...

HTH,

3

what is render for?

4

in …/layout/application.rhtml

there will be home page <%= render :partial => ‘layouts/homepage’ %> in home page call your all pages …which u want to show

<%= render :partial => ‘layouts/posts’ %>

<%= render :partial => ‘layouts/news’ %> …etc

-Shyam

5

I just put that there to represent standard controller stuff -- whatever else you have in that controller method.

If you mean `what does render do?`, it's time to open the API docs :slight_smile:

6

that's what I assumed but wasn't sure if you meant render a partial...

got it working now thanks!