How to use a partial layout with a collection? Rails

Question

I am calling:

render @users, :layout => "homepage"

because I want to wrap the default partial for users (views/_user.html.erb) with a custom layout just for the homepage (views/users/_homepage.html.erb).

but, when I do this, I get the NoMethodError on the user.name method.

For some reason it seems like the user variable is not getting initialized properly inside the user partial.

It turns out after some test, the homepage partial is not even getting called, it is going straight to the user partial ....

Answer 1

As of Sept. 2019, in Rails 6, this is how we are doing this:

<%= render partial: 'homepage_user_list_entry', collection: @users %>

With alias:

<%= render partial: 'homepage_user_list_entry', collection: @banned_users, as: :user %>

Hope this helps future searchers, and also me in the future.