Question

I’ve got a home_controller.rb that has different methods whose purpose is to just render render partials that have different content.

I have the urls created in the config

get '/interview', :to => 'home#interview'
get '/chambers', :to => 'home#chambers'
get '/letter', :to => 'home#letter'
get '/drafting', :to => 'home#letter'

and the methods set up that render partials (I was experimenting with symbols vs single quotes) from the home_controller.rb

  def chambers
     render 'home/chambers'
  end

  def drafting
      render 'drafting'
  end

  def interview
      render :interview
  end

However, I’m getting a missing template error (Template is Missing) message when I click the links.

I can get it to work without using partials but rather regular files interview.html.erb (for example) but I would still like to know why it’s not working with partials.

Thanks

Answer 1

you need to specify it as partial if you want to render a partial else rails will look for file or an action with that name.

render :partial => 'drafting'

Code for rendering logic in rails https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/5215eed5a3f18c76d70f0f25bca4ff6286c4bac8/actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb#L141