Question

I’ve seen the other posts, but can’t seem to figure out why this isn’t working for me

In my controller I set

  @referrer=referrer.name

in my view i have

  <%= render 'js', :referrer => @referrer >

then in my partial i put

   var type =' <%= referrer >';

I get a response ‘undefined local variable or method ‘referrer’ and it points to the _js file.

from what I can see, this is exactly how it is supposed to be written, what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

<%= render :partial => "account", :locals => { :referrer => @referrer } %>

Your variables to use in the partial need to be passed via the :locals hash.

Reference: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Partials.html

EDIT

The following works perfectly for me:

Controller:

  def index
    @referrer = "test"
  end

index.html.erb

<%= render :partial => "account", :locals => { :referrer => @referrer } %>

_account.html.erb

<%=referrer%>