In which folder should I put "global" shared partial templates? [duplicate]

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3.0.7 and I am planning to use partial templates. All classes in my application would use same partials so I have to decide where to located all those.

Is it a good idea to put "global" shared partial templates in the lib folder? If no, what is a common practice to choose the folder where to put those? Any advice on how to properly name and load that folder?

Answer 1

The standard is placing all shared partials in app/views/shared, and referencing them as

render :partial => 'shared/partial_name' 

If you have a standard "row in a list" partial (say, for an index page), you could use a shared partial like:

# To render a single object row: render :partial => 'shared/item', :locals => { :item => @item } # Or to render them all: render :partial => 'shared/item', :collection => @items 

Answer 2

Rails 4:

put the partials you intend to use through out your application in /app/views/application

Then anywhere in your application you can easily:

render partial: 'partial_name', variable_name: variable 

The added benefit is that you can always override the partial in a particular view space by redefining what that partial means in /app/views/controller_name/_partial_name.html.erb and the calls to the partial will then reference the more specific context you're in. If that doesn't exist you get the application level partial.

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