Question

Sometimes I’ll open up a partial view file in my Rails project using Sublime Text 2 and want to know where its call(s) to render come from (usually to debug my way through views that call partials that call partials…). Is there a package that enables you to find a list of calling files (or just directly open the calling file if there’s only one), in the same vein as the “Switch between code and test” hotkey in Sublime Text 2 Ruby Tests?

Answer 1

Your rails log is probably your best bet. When you’re trying to figure out which code called what, your rails log will say something like Processing SomeController#some_action ..., which tells you which action was processed.

After that it will also say things like, Rendering template... with the name of the template.

I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t think there’s a plugin that will work other than simply using a find with regex that finds all instances of render, but even it’s going to probably miss which partials are included, etc.

I would debug from what the log says that rails is actually doing – that’s going to be the only sure-fire source of truth, I think, and it will always include enough information to find out the answer to, “What just happened?”