Twice the same code, but only once it seems to work

Hi Jabo,

The code you posted here looks fine but I'm not sure I completely understand the problem.

If I understand your post, you have 2 controllers, Dir and Admin and you want to use the same form in views of both controllers. The render :partial call shows the form in /app/view/admin/new.rhtml but not in /app/view/dir/new.rhtml. Is that right?

A few questions: Are any errors showing up in development.log? Have you made doubly sure you have _form.rhtml in both /app/view/admin and /app/view/dir?

Would it be easier to move the _form.rhtml to /app/view/partials and call render :partial => "partials/form" instead? That way there is only 1 form file which helps you make sure the form file itself works. If you need to render certain fields only in the admin controller you can always pass a parameter to the render method like this for example:

# In your dir view
render :partial => "partials/form", :params => { :context = "dir" }
# In your admin view
render :partial => "partials/form", :params => { :context = "admin" }
# In /app/view/partials/_form.rhtml
<p><label for="company_name">Name</label>
<%= text_field 'company', 'name'  %></p>
... etc ...
<% if( params[:context] == "admin" ) -%>
  <p><label for="company_admin_only">Admin field</label>
  <%= text_field 'company', 'admin_only'  %></p>
<% end -%>

This way "Admin field" will only be displayed when the render is called with "admin" as its :context parameter.

I don't know if any of this was helpful. If not you could post some more complete code so we have a better view of the problem

-- Marsvin

You see ruby code in the output? That's strange. Did you place any ruby files in the public directory?

It may be that it doesn't like the name "dir" for a controller. Might want to try renaming it.

Reusable code is what Rails is all about.. I'm still getting used to it too I have to admit

Back to the problem.. It all sounds very strange to me.. The view works when you use Company.find but not when you use Company.new? Honestly that sounds almost impossible. Unless maybe the view tries to access certain elements in @company which are still nil (.new only creates the object, it doesn't make sure all its attributes have values.)

I don't know it all sounds very confusing. Would it be possible to copy and paste the full error message to this forum? That might give us some more clues, especially if there is raw ruby code being output.