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Roupen
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The views in this Exercisr, such as on p119, has {:f => f} in several places that I’m not familiar with. What does it mean? Thanks. |
EldonAlameda
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okay – hopefully i can explain this so it makes sense. What we’re doing in those examples is passing a value from the calling template to the partial (so that they will be available in the partial) <%= render :partial => 'form', :locals => {:f => f} %>So in the example – we’re passing whatever f represents within the calling template to the partial in the :f symbol in this format :locals => {:name_in_partial => name_here_in_template}
So in these examples – our form is being built in a block i.e. <% form_for(:exercise, :url => exercises_path) do |f| %> When we create our forms in a block like this – it means we can use the f variable to build all our fields f.text_field :name but we can’t do that in the partial unless we pass that f variable to it as a local variable. So that’s what I’m doing there. I’m making that form block variable f available to the partial so we can use it to create our fields within the partial. Does that help make sense? |