Thanks for the help on this. I figured out what my problem was. render :partial works as advertised when used in a controller, but not as a helper when used in a view (at least in Rails 2.0.2). The helper version of render tries to tack the view path to the beginning of the filepath no matter what. Instead, I used render_to_string form the controller and used the string directly in the view. This may have been fixed in a subsequent version of Rails.
On Jan 3, 9:58 am, pepe <p...@betterrpg.com> wrote: > From the API: > > File rendering works just like action rendering except that it takes a > filesystem path. By default, the path is assumed to be absolute, and > the current layout is not applied. > > # Renders the template located at the absolute filesystem path > render :file => "/path/to/some/template.erb" > render :file => "c:/path/to/some/template.erb" > > # Renders a template within the current layout, and with a 404 > status code > render :file => "/path/to/some/template.erb", :layout => > true, :status => 404 > render :file => "c:/path/to/some/template.erb", :layout => > true, :status => 404 > > Based on that you should be able to use one of the 2 first samples and > modify it for your needs. > > Pepe > > On Jan 2, 1:39 pm, Jeff <jeffpatter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm using render :file, but as far as I can tell,Railsstill tacks > > RAILS_ROOT/app/views to the beginning of the given filename. Is there > > a way to disable this? Ideally, I'd be rendering thepartialfrom > >outsidetheRailsroot entirely. > > > On Jan 2, 3:42 am, Andrius Chamentauskas <sinsil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > render :file => ... > > > > On Jan 2, 12:32 am, Jeff <jeffpatter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have a clientRailsproject, and I'd like to create a folderoutside > > > > of theRailsapp completely. The client could create vanilla HTML > > > > files and drop them into the folder. I'd then like to render those > > > > HTML files as partials against the main site template. I want to keep > > > > the client as far from the actualRailsapp as possible. Is there a > > > > way for me to render partials fromoutsidetheRailsroot? Or at least > > > >outsideviews? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
