Passing Blocks to Rails partials

block-to-partial

<%
# 
# I originally needed to create a sidebar partial that had a div area where I could place custom links into. Finally found it.
# When I was trying to figure this out before and realized I needed to pass the view into :layout, rather than just using render 'layout'. Not sure why the block can't be passed otherwise but nonetheless...
# 
# For explanation of options see
# http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#options-for-render
# 
%>

<%= render :layout=>'my/layout' do %>
  <% #some extra block passing rails magic 
  %>
  <%=link_to products_path, :class => 'button continue' do %>
    <%= image_tag('/images/topchoice/button-arrow-left.png', :class=>'arrow') %> Shop More
  <% end %>
<% end %>

<%
# Then just put this in your layout
%>
<%= yield %>

Oh my god, i searched for this for a long time, it's not obvious at all, what is it not working without "layout".

This is great. Is there any way to achieve this effect with two blocks? Or two chunks of HTML?

Sweet! thank you