From: Glenn Gillen <glenn.gillen@...>
Date: 2006-11-10T01:32:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails - Multiple Controllers in a page?

On 11/9/06, Kev <griffin.kev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am building a site, and I wish to populate the navigation dynamically
> from a MySQL db table, and the page content from a different table.
>
> The idea being I can have the navigation on every page, and use
> different controllers to select different content depending on what is
> needed.

Options that immediately come to mind:
a) Have the controllers load the data from the relevant sections into
instance variables which are then passed to the views for processing.
Menu stuff being handled by a layout, controlled specific by the view
for the specific action you are undertaking

b) Make the menu a seperate component
(http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Components)

Hope that helps,

Glenn