Rails - Including Static HTML Snippet

Question

In Ruby on Rails, can we have some GLOBAL static HTML snippets that we can use in the same way as a helper just like include in php? I'm making a nav bar but sometimes I want it at the bottom of my page.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use partials:

Create a view which its filename starts with an underscore, for example: /views/shared/_navbar.html.erb

then you can render this partial anywhere you'd like using

<%= render :partial => "shared/navbar" %>

in your view.

Note that although the partial file name has an underscore in the beginning, the render states its name with the underscore omitted.