Patterns of use for helpers and partials

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Hello,

Are there any guidelines as to when helpers or partials are a better option. If there is a lot of markup we are using partials, otherwise it has been up to the developer.

Is there an established best practice?

Thanks, Dan

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Usually I favor helpers over partials when there's more logic coding than markup and "display" coding involved. For example:

  def display_date_range(start_date, end_date = false)     end_date = nil if end_date == start_date     [start_date, end_date].compact.each{|date| date = date.to_s(:view) if date.respond_to? :year}.join(' - ')   end

That really feels more like it should be a helper than a partial. I guess that's what matters - doing whatever feels right :slight_smile:

Daniel

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+1

Helpers == logic Partials are for rendering parts of views.

Leverage them both by making a helper call a partial :slight_smile: