# Determining is a Partial is Rendering

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/determining-is-a-partial-is-rendering/28045>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [April 15, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/determining-is-a-partial-is-rendering/28045 "2008-04-15T15:44:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrew4ta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@andrew4ta](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/andrew4ta)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/determining-is-a-partial-is-rendering/28045/1 "2008-04-15T15:44:47Z")

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Is there a way to determine if the current render cycle is for a partial?

I have an exception handler setup, but I'd like to re-throw the exception if it is thrown while rendering a partial.

Thanks for any advice, Andrew

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**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/determining-is-a-partial-is-rendering/28045/2 "2008-04-16T04:48:50Z")

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You could check out thread.backtrace and maybe parse it.

andrew4ta wrote: