One controller rendering using another controller's views

ruby-on-rails view controller render
Paul picture Paul · Jun 18, 2009 · Viewed 42.3k times · Source

I have QuestionController I now have AnotherQuestionController with actions which should render using templates and partials in app/views/question/ Is this possible? Seems like it should be.

I've tried 

render :template => "question/answer"

but answer.html.erb includes partials and I get errors like

"Missing template another_question/_my_partial.erb in view path"

So is there a way to tell Rails "treat AnotherQuestionController as if its QuestionController and look for views and partials in app/views/question"? Or will I have to create app/views/another_question - which will cause duplication (this can't be the Rails way).

Thanks

Answer

Ben Hughes picture Ben Hughes · Jun 18, 2009

Template rendering should actually work

 render :template => "question/answer"

The problem you were having is from the partials looking in the wrong place. The fix is simple, just make your partials absolute in any shared templates. For example, question/answer.html.erb should have

<%= render :partial => 'question/some_partial' %>

rather than the usual

<%= render :partial => 'some_partial' %>

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