Fun with Variants and Enums in Rails 4.1

Variants can be used within a respond_to block to handle the same action in separate ways. Using the

Variants

Variants can be used within a respond_to block to handle the same action in separate ways. Using the Usermodel from above, we can render a show page unique for a particular user's role.

def show
  @user = User.find(params[:id])
  request.variant = @user.role.to_sym
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html do |html|
      html.student
      html.staff
      html.admin
    end
  end
end

In this example, the variants of the show action such as html.student will render a view template with the name matching: show.html+student.haml (or erb if you prefer). This allows us to use the same logic from our

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