Problem: How Do You Render Multiple View Pages From Different Controllers?
In my views/layouts/application.html.erb, I call views/posts/index.html.erb with the yield method.
<div class='span10'>
<%= yield %>
</div>
On top of it, I wanted to call views/good_posts/index.html.erb with yield. So in that particular index file, I wrap around all the code with content_for method.
<%= content_for :good_post do %> all my content in good_post/index.html.erb <% end %>
I go back to application.html.erb, I tried to call the index file of good_post with yield method.
<div class='span10'>
<%= yield :good_post %>
</div>
<div class='span10'>
<%= yield %>
</div>
I thought this would result in good_post/index to be rendered on top of post/index, but it did not work; only post/index was correctly rendered as before. Could someone explain why this is, and tell me the correct way to approach this problem? I appreciate your help!
You should, as @cdesrosiers said, rename the index.html.erb file in good_posts to _index.html.erb. Then you can render this view in your application like this:
<div class='span10'>
<%= render 'good_posts/index' %>
<%= yield :good_post %>
</div>
<div class='span10'>
<%= yield %>
</div>
Personally, I would change the index.html.erb file in good_posts folder to _good_posts.html.erb file in app/views/posts folder. Your code will have better meaning, and you can know where to find it after, because it relates to posts. So, if you change this, use this code:
<div class='span10'>
<%= render 'posts/good_posts' %=
<%= yield :good_post %>
</div>
<div class='span10'>
<%= yield %>
</div>
Another you should change is content_for :good_post -> content_for :good_posts , because good posts maybe have many posts, so you should use post in pluralize.