[ruby-on-rails] Rails 4 - passing variable to partial

I am following the Ruby on Rails tutorial and have come across a problem while trying to pass variables to partials.

My _user partial is as follows

<li>
  <%= gravatar_for user, size: 52 %>
  <%= link_to user.name, user %>
</li>

I would like to pass in a number for the size value. I am trying as follows without any luck.

<%= render @users, :locals => {:size => 30} %>

From the Rails api on PartialRender:

Rendering the default case

If you're not going to be using any of the options like collections or layouts, you can also use the short-hand defaults of render to render partials.

Examples:

# Instead of <%= render partial: "account" %>
<%= render "account" %>

# Instead of <%= render partial: "account", locals: { account: @buyer } %>
<%= render "account", account: @buyer %>

# @account.to_partial_path returns 'accounts/account', so it can be used to replace:
# <%= render partial: "accounts/account", locals: { account: @account} %>
<%= render @account %>

# @posts is an array of Post instances, so every post record returns 'posts/post' on `to_partial_path`,
# that's why we can replace:
# <%= render partial: "posts/post", collection: @posts %>
<%= render @posts %>

So, you can use pass a local variable size to render as follows:

<%= render @users, size: 50 %>

and then use it in the _user.html.erb partial:

<li>
    <%= gravatar_for user, size: size %>
    <%= link_to user.name, user %>
</li>

Note that size: size is equivalent to :size => size.

ou are able to create local variables once you call the render function on a partial, therefore if you want to customize a partial you can for example render the partial _form.html.erb by:

<%= render 'form', button_label: "Create New Event", url: new_event_url %>
<%= render 'form', button_label: "Update Event", url: edit_event_url %>

this way you can access in the partial to the label for the button and the URL, those are different if you try to create or update a record. finally, for accessing to this local variables you have to put in your code local_assigns[:button_label] (local_assigns[:name_of_your_variable])

<%=form_for(@event, url: local_assigns[:url]) do |f|  %>
<%= render 'shared/error_messages_events' %>
<%= f.label :title ,"Title"%>
  <%= f.text_field :title, class: 'form-control'%>
  <%=f.label :date, "Date"%>
  <%=f.date_field :date, class: 'form-control'  %>
  <%=f.label :description, "Description"%>
  <%=f.text_area :description, class: 'form-control'  %>
  <%= f.submit local_assigns[:button_label], class:"btn btn-primary"%>
<%end%>

Either

render partial: 'user', locals: {size: 30}

Or

render 'user', size: 30

To use locals, you need partial. Without the partial argument, you can just list variables directly (not within locals)

If you are using JavaScript to render then use escape_JavaScript("<%=render partial: partial_name, locals=>{@newval=>@oldval}%>");

Don't use locals in Rails 4.2+

In Rails 4.2 I had to remove the locals part and just use size: 30 instead. Otherwise, it wouldn't pass the local variable correctly.

For example, use this:

<%= render @users, size: 30 %>

Syntactically a little different but it looks cleaner in my opinion:

render 'my_partial', locals: { title: "My awesome title" }

# not a big fan of the arrow key syntax
render 'my_partial', :locals => { :title => "My awesome title" }