Question

I’m working on a projects where hunts a list of tasks associated with them. I’ve got a hunts model that accepts nested attributes for the tasks model. But I can’t my views to work right. Here’s what my views/hunts.html.erb looks like:

    <h1>New Hunt</h1>

    <%= form_for(@hunt) do |f| %>       
      <%= render 'fields', :f => f %>
        <%= f.fields_for :tasks do |builder| %>
        <%= render "task_fields", :f => builder %>
        <% end %>
      <div class="actions">
        <%= f.submit "Add hunt" %>
      </div>
    <% end %>

Unfortunately, that doesn’t work. Rails thinks that tasks_fields is located in the hunts views. This is the error message I receive.

ActionView::MissingTemplate in Hunts#new
Showing /****/app/views/hunts/new.html.erb where line #9 raised:
Missing partial hunts/task_fields, application/task_fields with {:handlers=>[:erb,   :builder, :coffee], :formats=>[:html], :locale=>[:en, :en]}. Searched in:
 *****/app/views"

How do I tell rails to look in views/tasks instead of views/hunts?

Answer 1

Just use the name of the other folder, e.g.

<%= render "tasks/task_fields", :f => builder %>

will render tasks/_task_fields.html.erb