Passing local variables to a view from controller

Question

I am not able for some reason to pass local variables to the show view...

In my controller i have simply:

def show
  render template: \"books/show\", :re         


        

Answer 1

Passing Data from the Controller to the View

Here's a NovelController class, to be put into app/ controllers/novel_controller.rb.

class NovelController < ApplicationController
      def index
        @title = 'Shattered View: A Novel on Rails'
      end
end

Since this is the Novel controller and the index action, the corresponding view is in app/views/novel/index.html.erb

<%= @title %>

Output:

Shattered View: A Novel on Rails

The view is interpreted after NovelController#index is run. Here's what the view can and can't access:

• It can access the instance variables @title, because they've been defined on the NovelController object by the time NovelController#index finishes running.
• It can call instance methods of the instance variables @title.