Added render_partial/render_partial_collection from controllers for easier Ajaxing

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@880 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
index e75df4c127..688ab7e174 100755
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
@@ -476,6 +476,16 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
         add_variables_to_assigns
         @template.render_file(template_name)
       end
+      
+      def render_partial(partial_path, object = nil, local_assigns = {}) #:doc:
+        add_variables_to_assigns
+        render_text(@template.render_partial(partial_path, object, local_assigns))
+      end
+
+      def render_partial_collection(partial_name, collection, partial_spacer_template = nil, local_assigns = {})#:doc:
+        add_variables_to_assigns
+        render_text(@template.render_collection_of_partials(partial_name, collection, partial_spacer_template, local_assigns))
+      end
 
       # Sends the file by streaming it 4096 bytes at a time. This way the
       # whole file doesn't need to be read into memory at once.  This makes
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/partials.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/partials.rb
index bbb38778b7..2251bd321c 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/partials.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/partials.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ module ActionView
   # a partial by the same name as the elements contained within. So the three-lined example in "Using partials" can be rewritten
   # with a single line:
   #
-  #   <%= render_collection_of_partials "ad", @advertisements %>
+  #   <%= render_partial_collection "ad", @advertisements %>
   #
   # This will render "advertiser/_ad.rhtml" and pass the local variable +ad+ to the template for display. An iteration counter
   # will automatically be made available to the template with a name of the form +partial_name_counter+. In the case of the 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ module ActionView
       render("#{path}/_#{partial_name}", { partial_name => object }.merge(local_assigns))
     end
 
-    def render_collection_of_partials(partial_name, collection, partial_spacer_template = nil, local_assigns = {})
+    def render_partial_collection(partial_name, collection, partial_spacer_template = nil, local_assigns = {})
       collection_of_partials = Array.new
       counter_name = partial_counter_name(partial_name)
       collection.each_with_index do |element, counter|
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ module ActionView
       end
     end
     
+    alias_method :render_collection_of_partials, :render_partial_collection
+    
     private
       def partial_pieces(partial_path)
         if partial_path.include?('/')