Rails: Missing partial Ruby Chapter 8 tutorial

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl - Chapter 8 - Rails 3 I use rails 3.1 In the file new.html.erb I have:

<h1>Sign up</h1>
<%= form_for(@user) do |f| %>
<%= render 'shared/error_messages' %>

Trying to visit http://localhost:3000/signup, it gives me the following message:

ActionView::MissingTemplate in Users#new

Missing partial /shared/error_messages with {:handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :coffee], 
:formats=>[:html], :locale=>[:en, :en]}. Searched in:
* "/Users/macbook/rails_projects/sample_app/app/views"

I have googled around but could not find this answer. The same question was posted a while ago at: Ruby Chapter 8 tutorial partial file not found

What I tried: -putting a / in front of shared - putting :partial => after render -putting :target => @user

If I don't put it into the shared folder, it works. Is there a different way to do this in rails 3.1.3? Please let me know because I've spent so much time trying to figure it out.

Answer 1

If you say;

<%= render 'shared/error_messages' %>

it will look for a partial named shared/error_messages in the app/views/#{controller_name}

ie. if you're in the users#signup action, it will expect to find app/views/users/shared/error_messages

If in fact you mean app/views/shared/error_messages then you should say the following.

<%= render '/shared/error_messages' %>

That's just the only way to avoid ambiguity.

Answer 2

Did you name the file correctly (with the underscore)? That was my problem...

error_messages.html.erb

should be

_error_messages.html.erb