CLEAN and DRY

rubyonrails-talk
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is it possible to include a partial from within the global application.html.erb?

I have a google ad in my application.html.erb I would like to move it to a partial _google.html.erb in my layouts directory to keep things CLEAN.. but i guess ERB is only looking in the current views directory not the layouts dir.. would not make sense to move it to a partial and then duplicate the _google.html.erb in all views, thats not very DRY..

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You can do something like this:

   render :partial => 'your_directory/view_name'

So if you wanted to put _google.html.erb in the app/views/shared directory, you would do:

   render :partial => 'shared/google'

--Jeremy

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I often create a shared directory in app/views for such things. In your case, you'd have app/shared/_google.html.erb and refer to it as:

<%= render :partial => '/shared/google' %>

--Greg