Question

I am having an issue passing a :locals variable to two levels of views. Normally, I just use one and am just wondering if there is something that prevents this:

For example:

<%=render :partial => 'shared/following', :locals => {:following => @following} %>

in shared/_following.html.erb (assuming item is of type ‘Location’):

<% following.each do |item| %>
   <% class_type=item.class.to_s %>
  <%#works fine %> 
  <%=debug(item) %>
  <%# a bunch of different types of things to follow %>
  <%=render 'shared/box-'+class_type.downcase! , :locals => { :item => item } %>
<% end %>

in shared/_box-location.html.erb:

<% # this doesn't work nor does @item.name %>
<%=item.name %>

Can I do locals two levels deep? How can I / should I rectify?

thx

Answer 1

Also note that explicitly specifying :partial is required when passing
additional options such as :layout.

(Source)

:locals is also an additional option, so try this:

<%= render :partial => 'shared/box-'+class_type.downcase!, :locals => { :item => item } %>