Partials access to local objects

I’m writing an extension to add a new feature to the “taggable”
extension and I need to do something very simple: add a new column to
the taggable index page. This is pretty simple:

admin.tag.index.add :thead, “add_required_header”, :after =>
“modify_header”
admin.tag.index.add :tbody, “add_required_cell”, :after =>
“modify_cell”

However, in my partial, I need to reference the tag object from
index.html.haml:

  • for tag in @tags
    %tr.node.level-1
    - render_region :tbody do |tbody|
    .
    .
    .
    / Partial code should be inserted here
    / - tbody.required_cell do
    / - if tag.required
    / Required

However, the “tag” object is not available within the partial. Is
there any way I can get access to that when I’m adding code via
partials?

On 13 Dec 2010, at 19:05, [email protected] wrote:

index.html.haml:
/ Required

However, the “tag” object is not available within the partial. Is
there any way I can get access to that when I’m adding code via
partials?

No. It’s a weakness of the otherwise very cunning shards mechanism that
there is no way for it to get at local variables.

Taggable could help, perhaps by including an empty partial
(_other_columns.html.haml?) with some locals or by setting a
@current_tag variable within the index-page loop. Neither approach is
very pleasing, but it will take a while to arrive at a better solution
that is also simple enough to live with.

I need to clear up that index page anyway (as you can see from the
‘node.level-1’). Would anyone like to suggest a best practice here?

will