Ruby on Rails: conditionally display a partial

Question

I\'m not sure if I\'m doing the best approach here, but I have a block of data that I want to show after a search is done and to not be there at all before. First of all, there

Answer 1

One easy way is to use a helper method. Helpers tend to be a bit cleaner than putting logic directly in the view.

So, your view might be something like :

<%= render_stuff_conditionally %>

and your helper would have a method to control this:

def render_stuff_conditionally
  if @contional_check
    render :partial => 'stuff'
  end
end

where obviously things are named more appropriately