Rails 3 Case Statement in a View

Question

Hello... I have an AuditLog with things like id | action | type | description...

What I'd like to do in the View is something like

Case description when "created"

created styling

when "deleted"

deleted styling

else

error

end

Trying to learn how to do this in a view and the correct syntax, which the resources I found on Google Don't specify.

Thanks

Answer 1

This should work:

<%= 
  case @audit_log.description
  when "created" then "created styling"
  when "deleted" then "deleted styling"
  else "error"
  end
%>

Answer 2

If your styling contains lots of tags and HTML elements, I would suggest putting them into partials:

<%= render :partial => @audit_log.description rescue nil %>

If you description is created, then it would render the file _created.html.erb in the same folder as the current view

If it is deleted, render _deleted.html.erb automatically.

If description is something else, which has no _something.html.erb file, then nothing would be displayed (without rescue nil, error will occurs)

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If you want to render the partial in some different folder,

<%= render :partial => "some/where/#{@audit_log.description}" %>