Question

In my website, a user can create a new post from any page. I’m unsure where to put the

@var = Model.new

though, since it doesn’t correspond to a specific controller. What’s the best practice for this situation? Would I want to to create it in the application controller? I figure I shouldn’t initialize it in the view itself.

Answer 1

Yes, you would create a before_filter in your ApplicationController which will initialize @var as is necessary.

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :initialize_common_components

  # ...

  private
    def initialize_common_components
      @var = Model.new
    end
end