What’s the best way to deal with 2 views of an index page from the same controller? I would like to split it up between an admin index and user index page.
Is a partial my only option here?
Are you wanting to render a different layout? You could do something like this:
class MyController < ApplicationController
layout :resolve_layout
# ...
private
def resolve_layout
case action_name
when "new", "create"
"some_layout"
when "index"
"other_layout"
else
"application"
end
end
end
You can also look into nested layouts here:
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In the long run I found out it was easier to have different controllers that respond to different urls.
/groups shows you your groups that you are enrolled into while /admin/groups is only for admins that need to see all the groups.
In this ways there are two controllers with two methods and two views and they share a common partial but it is easier to add new things to the admin view without all the ifs for if you are currently admin or not.
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