render partial and text in one action

rubyonrails-talk
1

Hey all,

how can i render :partial and render :text in one action?

I need to update the partial and update an div field with some html data.

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

2

How about you use render :update instead?

3

How about you use render :update instead?

But how to call the partials?

render :update |page|

page.xxxx partials...?

end

4

Stephan Meier wrote:

How about you use render :update instead?

But how to call the partials?

render :update |page|

page.xxxx partials...?

end

Actually... what you are trying to do doesn't seem to be possible this way. You can only call render ONCE IN A CONTROLLER per request. To clear things up a little, what exaclty is your situation?

a) You have a page rendered in the browser and you want to replace a part of it with a partial and some other part with a text via ajax?

Then you can use:

render :update do |page|   page[:name_of_part].replace_html :partial => :name_of_partial   page[:name_of_other_part].replace_html "New Text" end

render :update (in this case) sends a javascript back to your browser, which updates the elements given by page[:element_id].

b) You have a normal request and you want to render multiple things from your controller?

Not possbile this way. You can call render as many time as you want in a view, but only once per action in a controller. So you have to redesign this part of your app.

Hope this helps.

Mike

5

I'm not 100% sure what you're doing, but look at render_to_string.