Question

I’m a rails beginner and I’m trying to render on my show (as in tv show) page

“@reviews by @sources”

and I’m not sure how to add a second method inside my render in my views
shows

controller:

 def show
   @show = Show.find(params[:id])
   @reviews = @show.reviews.paginate(page: params[:page])
   @sources = @show.reviews.source

  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # show.html.erb
    format.json { render json: @show }

  end
end

show view show.html.erb

   <div class="span8">
   <% if @show.reviews.any? %>
   <h3>Reviews (<%= @show.reviews.count %>)</h3>
   <ol class="reviews">
   <%= render @reviews %>
   </ol>
   <%= will_paginate @reviews %>
   <% end %>
   </div>
   </div>

any help ?!

Answer 1

You have a will paginate array called @reviews. this array has review objects. Now to display the contents of this array, what you need to do is, in the show.htm.erb.

<% @reviews.each do |review| %>
  <%= review.column_name %>
<% end %>

The render method, which you have used is a method from ActionController, you can’t use that in the views.