How to pass an argument when calling a view file?

Question

I wrote a webform using Sinatra and Haml that will be used to call a Ruby script.

Everything seems fine except for one thing: I need to pass an argument to a Haml view file from the Sinatra/Ruby script.

Here is a part of my code:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'haml'

get '/' do
  haml :index
end

post '/' do
  name = params[:name]
  vlan = params[:vlan]

  tmp = nil
  tmp = %x[./wco-hosts.rb -a -n #{name} -v #{vlan}]

  if tmp.include?("Error")
    haml :fail
  else
    haml :success
  end
end

If the script encounters an arror it will return a string including the word "Error". If this happens, I'm calling a Haml file which will show an error page to the users. If the script doesn't encounter an arror, it will return a success page.

I want to include, in the success/fail page, the name of the new VM the user added. My problem is that I have no clue how to pass it in both my Haml files. I searched for a solution, but did not find anything.

Answer 1

You can pass a hash of parameters to the Haml method using the :locals key:

get '/' do
    haml :index, :locals => {:some_object => some_object}
end

This way the Ruby code in your Haml file can access some_object and render whatever content is in there, call methods etc.