Layouts, Views, & Partials Lab

Introduction

Note: This can be a pair programming activity or done independently.

Now that we've seen how to play with views and partials, you'll now create an app that will use partials and redirects. Don't worry about styling, positioning, or models/databases, you're going to focus on how layouts, views, and partials work together with params, yield, and render to display the correct view to the user.

Exercise

Requirements

• Create a rails app from scratch
• This app should have a controller called "static" with an "index" method
• The index method should render different templates based on the params:
  • When the param "page" is 1, the template rendered should be "app/views/static/index_1.html.erb"
  • When the param "page" is 2, the template rendered should be "app/views/static/index_2.html.erb"
  • Otherwise the template rendered should be "app/views/static/index.html.erb"
  • Test this with: /static/index?page=1 and /static/index?page=2
• The controller should also have a method page that renders the template page inside a layout called page.html.erb
• Both layouts should look different but they should render a partial called footer.html.erb at the bottom.

Bonus:

• Scaffold a resource and try to render the collection on index using partial (take a look at the rails guide below)
• Get creative and add multiple different partials on each different layout
• Add some styles!

Deliverable

Additional Resources

• Rails guides Layout and rendering
• Your instructor should give you access to lesson notes.