Sharing A Layout Among Partials

Using Rails 2.3.8. My site displays reviews. Depending on what context the review is shown in the review's heading and thumbnail change.

I'm trying to share a layout across several review partials. Each partial would define a few snippets of HTML to be used in the layout.

Is this possible? I've tried several variations of the following:

#layout

.review[review]   .thumb     = yield :thumb   .details     %h4       = yield :heading     %div      Rest of layout.....

Using this renders index twice (index uses a layout too):

# index.html.haml %h2 Product reviews = image_tag(@product.url) = render :layout => @reviews, :locals => { :product => @product } do

section>

   - if section == :thumb      thumb stuff

Using this causes content to be appended upon each iteration of the content_for blocks:

# index.html.haml     - @reviews.each do |review|       - content_for :heading do       Heading stuff...       - content_for :thumb do       Thumb stuff...

      = render :partial => "shared/review", :object => review, :locals => { :product => @product }

I know I can make the blocks locals:

= render :partial => "review", :object => review, :locals => { :product => @product, :heading => link_to(image_tag(@product.url), @product.name) }

But this gets ugly as the HTML becomes more complex. Yes, I can use helpers, but I'd prefer to keep the somewhat larger HTML snippets in the templates instead of doing things like:

content_tag :div, :class => dom_id(@user) do   content_tag :span, "xxxxx"   # more code... end

I feel its better to have different partials for different kind of views…

Tomorrow if there is need to change the other partial view it would be clean and neat way…

Typically you'd have 1 partial for the review: views/reviews/_review. In my case the content varies slightly based on the context/review type. I don't think it makes sense to have N partials per context and review type when 85% of the layout is the same.