I have a few objects that are incredibly similar. In fact, they use STI and store all of the data in the same table in the DB. Currently, every time I add a feature or fix a bug, I have to update it in 3 different places, so I would like to DRY my code a little bit. The most common code duplication is in the views. I have seen people using render :template => 'shared/something' to render their common views, the problem is, I have many of these, but only for one particular object (Shipments), so I would prefer something like render :template => 'shipments/shared/something' or render :template => 'abstract_shipments/something'. More importantly though, I would like any of the actual classes to be able to override the template if it needs to.
Do y’all have any suggestions on how to go about this? Thanks very much for any answers!
The
inherit_viewsplugin might do the job: http://github.com/ianwhite/inherit_views/tree/master. I’ve used it successfully before.You could then have a common base controller class for all controllers needing to render shipments and have any common templates in that base controller’s views folder with any specific overrides in the individual controllers’ views folders.