drying up partials

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over the last several weeks i've really started trying to put partials to work to keep my views dry.

it's great but now i'm needing partials that span across different controllers, because i'm having duplicate files in my views.

i don't know if this would actually work, but i was thinking of having a Common controller for my partials and just rendering from there, but i just thought i would post up and see what other developers are doing or what the recommended way is.

any help would be great

thanks

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Josh wrote:

over the last several weeks i've really started trying to put partials to work to keep my views dry.

it's great but now i'm needing partials that span across different controllers, because i'm having duplicate files in my views.

i don't know if this would actually work, but i was thinking of having a Common controller for my partials and just rendering from there, but i just thought i would post up and see what other developers are doing or what the recommended way is.

any help would be great

thanks

you can create a 'shared' view directory. Then just reference them as

render :partial => 'shared/view_name'

_Kevin

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that was easy enough. thanks!