Rails - Making @projects avaialble on all page loads

Question

Hello, On every page of my app I want to show a user's projects... So which controller do I use to make sure that @projects from the projects controller is being made available in the view?

Thanks

Answer 1

In your application_controller do the following:

before_filter :load_projects

def load_projects
  @projects = Project.all
end

That will run the load_projects method on every request and populate the @projects variable.

You can also add conditions to your before filter like so:

before_filter :load_projects, :only => [:index]

def load_projects
  @projects = Project.all
end

See more about ActionController filters:

• Action Controller Filters - Rails Guides
• ActionController::Filters - API