What am I doing wrong?

rubyonrails-talk
1

Hello,

I'm trying to display chat messages from different users, and the content is to be read from respective partials. When I render the partials, I get the following error: `@...' is not allowed as an instance variable name This is the view:

<% for contact in @contacts %>   <div id="chat_content_<%= contact.partner_id%>">    <%= render(:partial => contact.partner_id) %>   </div>   <div>    <% form_tag ... do %>     . . .    <% end %>   </div> <% end %>

2

Hello,

I'm trying to display chat messages from different users, and the content is to be read from respective partials. When I render the partials, I get the following error: `@...' is not allowed as an instance variable name This is the view:

<% for contact in @contacts %> <div id="chat_content_<%= contact.partner_id%>">   <%= render(:partial => contact.partner_id) %>

Are you partial names just numeric values ? That won't work because
instance/local variables get created for you named after the partial
and you can't have an instance variable called @123

Fred

3

Hi Aldric,

Sounds like you need to render the partial and pass in the variable as a local variable:

that's what I also thought, but I resolved the problem by using a different formating for 'mypatrial', and not contact.partner_id. The problem is that not all 'partner_ids' also form a valid partial name, since there exist some signs(like -, $ ...) which are not allowed in file names.

Thanks for the help.