Partials always define a local variable with the same name as themselves. E.g. when you are in _recent_users.html.erb, a local variable recent_users will be defined and overshadow any helper method that is also called recent_users().
If you would like to use a helper method recent_users() in a partial _recent_users.html.erb you can say this in the partial template:
<% recent_users = self.recent_users() %>
<% recent_users.each do |user| %>
...
<% end %>
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-04-15 10:14)