Question

I’m rendering the following html fragment…

<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-top">
    <div class="navbar-inner">
        <div class="container">
            <%= yield %>    
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

… like this:

<%= render :layout => "shared/menu" do %>
    ...code here...
<% end %>

Now in order to clean up things even more, I’d like to hide the render in a helper, in order to have something like:

<%= bs_menu do %>
    ...code here...
<% end %>

I’ve tried without success the following helper:

def bs_menu(&block)
    render(:layout => "shared/menu") &block
end

I get this error from rails (3.2.1):

You invoked render but did not give any of :partial, :template,
:inline, :file or :text option.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I think you can also do this:

def bs_menu(&block)
  render({:layout => "shared/menu"}, &block)
end

(Maybe you can also ommit the curly braces). This is a my standard way of passing blocks to methods.