ruby on rails 3.1 - How can I render partial in show.html.erb -

i have these 2 models in ruby on rails application - artist , song. associated follows:

class artist < activerecord::base

has_many :songs

attr_accessible :artist_name

and

class song < activerecord::base

belongs_to :artist

attr_accessible :title, :track_url, :artist_id

i have code in views/artist/show.html.erb:

<%=  render 'artist_song'  %>  <table>     <% @artist.songs.each |song| %>         <tr>           <td><%= song.title %></td>         </tr>     <% end %> </table> 

the partial im trying render(_artist_song.html.erb) in same view looks this:

<table>   <% @artist = artist.all %>   <% @artist.each |artist| %>       <tr>         <td><%= link_to artist.artist_name, artist %></td>       </tr>   <% end %> </table> 

the way suppose work when click on artist shown trough partial, code below partial has show me songs belongs particular artist. both partial , code in table tag working individually. when put them together, looks there conflict between them , server showing me no method error:

nomethoderror in artists#show  showing c:/sites/oml/app/views/artists/show.html.erb line #9 raised:  undefined method `songs' #<array:0x5fe1418> extracted source (around line #9):  6:  7:  8: <table> 9:     <% @artist.songs.each |song| %> 10:         <tr> 11:           <td><%= song.title %></td> 12:         </tr> rails.root: c:/sites/oml  application trace | framework trace | full trace app/views/artists/show.html.erb:9:in `_app_views_artists_show_html_erb__950110288_54062208' app/controllers/artists_controller.rb:21:in `show' 

i couldn`t find solution. appreciated. thank you.

you not using partial. need render partial inside artist loop:

show.html.erb

<table>   <% @artists = artist.all %>   <% @artists.each |artist| %>     <tr>       <td><%= link_to artist.artist_name, artist %></td>     </tr>     <%= render :partial => 'artist_song', :artist => artist %>    <% end %> </table> 

this way, passing current artist object inside partial, there can do:

artist_song.html.erb

<% artist.songs.each |song| %>   <tr>     <td><%= song.title %></td>   </tr> <% end %>