Transmitting locals to deeper partials

Question

What i have: Several references to the same partial but with different locals like

<%= render :partial => 'link/to/partial', :locals => {:fieldtype => 'textline', :text => object.text} %>
<%= render :partial => 'link/to/partial', :locals => {:fieldtype => 'list', :list => object.list, :header => 'HEADER'} %>

Now _partial.html.erb has the following line:

<%= render :partial => 'link/to/partial/'+fieldtype, :locals => locals %>

What i want: Obviously :locals => locals does not work. How can i link all the locals to the next partial?

Answer 1

Just for clarification, you could put all the locals in a hash like this:

<% my_locals = {:fieldtype => 'textline', :text => object.text} %>
<%= render :partial => 'link/to/partial', :locals => {:my_locals => my_locals} %>

(Not that it can be confusing that {} are both used for declaring a hash and a block)

In your partial you would then do this:

<%= render :partial => 'link/to/partial/'+my_locals[:fieldtype], :locals => {:my_locals => my_locals} %>