I've got this working now quite accidentally, but I don't understand what causes it to break when I explicitly specify what partials are to be used for rendering the resource/s. Can anyone explain it?
The index template for my Posts controller contained the following line, which was giving me an error:
<%= render partial: 'posts', collection: @posts %>
The error (in my browser) said:
NoMethodError in Posts#index
Showing /Users/applebum/Sites/rails_projects/eventful2/app/views/posts/_posts.html.erb where line #1 raised:
undefined method `any?' for #<Post:0x000001064b21f0>
Extracted source (around line #1):
1: <% if posts.any? %>
2: <div id="posts">
3: <% posts.each do |post| %>
4: <%= render partial: "posts/post", locals: { post: post } %>
Changing the problem line to
<%= render @posts %>
made the error disappear and the posts appear (displayed nicely in markup from the appropriate partials) as I had wanted and expected them to.
Here's my _posts.html.erb partial:
<% if posts.any? %>
<div id="posts">
<% posts.each do |post| %>
<%= render partial: "posts/post", locals: { post: post } %>
<% # render :partial => "comments/comments", :collection => post.comments %>
<% end %>
</div>
<% end %>
And the _post.html.erb partial it's referring to, if that matters:
<div class="post" id="post_<%= "#{post.id}" %>">
<div class="post_inner">
<%= link_to avatar_for(post.user, size: "small"), post.user.profile %>
<div class="post_body">
<div class="user-tools">
<% if can? :destroy, post %>
<%= link_to '<i class="fi-x"></i>'.html_safe, post, :method => :delete, remote: true, :class => "delete", :confirm => "Are you sure you want to delete this post?", :title => post.content %>
<% end %>
</div>
<h5 class="username">
<%= link_to post.user.name, post.user.profile %>
<span class="timestamp">• <%= time_ago_in_words(post.created_at) %> ago</span>
</h5>
<div class="content">
<%= post.content %>
</div>
<ul class="foot">
<li>Like<li>
<li>Share</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
And the relevant bits from the controller:
class PostsController < ApplicationController
respond_to :html, :js # Allow for AJAX requests as well as HTML ones.
before_filter :load_postable
load_and_authorize_resource
def index
@post = Post.new
@posts = @postable.posts
end
private #################
def load_postable
klass = [User, Event].detect { |c| params["#{c.name.underscore}_id"] } # Look for which one of these there's a ***_id parameter name for
@postable = klass.find(params["#{klass.name.underscore}_id"]) # Call find on that, passing in that parameter. eg Event.find(1)
end
Can anyone explain to me what's going on here? I couldn't find anything in the Layouts and Rendering guide at rubyonrails.org.
Thanks!