Rails 3.2 create a form that's used in the footer of every page

Question

I want to create a form that\'s used to sign up to a mailing list in the footer of my webpage. What I did was create a partial that renders this small form in the footer of

Answer 1

You can change your form_for method to this:

<%= form_for :mailing_list, url: mailing_lists_path do |f| %>

Then you no longer need to initialize @mailing_list for every page.

The caveat is that you cannot render the errors in the footer. You would need to create a new.html.erb view using the code in the question, that can be rendered if there are any errors when saving in the create action.