I've the following situation (which actually works in Rails 2.3.8 and this is a result of the migration of our app to rails3):
I have a partial which is rendered a few times (imagine tr's in a table). On the clientside there's a script that does a json request for a specific row (jQuery + ajax dataType: 'json' and type: 'POST')
In the controller I do:
render :json => { :success => true, 
=> render_to_string(:partial =>
'some_partial') }
Then the ajax result handler replaces the row with the data from the json result.
This is 100% functional code in rails 2.3.8, but raises MissingTemplate exception:
ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing partial employees/ employee_list_row_data with {:handlers=>[:haml, :builder, :erb, :rjs, :rhtml, :rxml], :formats=>[:json, :js, :"*/ *"], :locale=>[:en, :en]} in view paths ...
So it seems that the requested formats are used to search for the templates.
First question: is this change deliberate? Is it now necessary to have templates in the form of: "xxx.erb" (without the 'html') so it can be used for requests in other formats? Removing the '.html' part of the file fixes this problem. I just want to know whether this is as expected or a bug.
Second question: when I look at the query (actionpack/lib/action_view/ template/resolver.rb line 71) it is like this: app/views/layouts/ tags{.en,.en,}{.json,.js,.*/*,} {.haml,.builder,.erb,.rjs,.rhtml,.rxml,} You can see it uses the request.format '*/*' also in the Dir[query]. Is this possibly a bug? Because in (/home/cvp/myprojects/github/rails@github/actionpack/lib/ action_view/template/resolver.rb line 152 there's the following code
      # Overload formats= to reject [:"*/*"] values.       def formats=(values)         if values && values.size == 1           value = values.first           values = nil if value == :"*/*"           values << :html if value == :js         end         super(values)       end
I see there's specific code to handle '*/*' formats but only when this is the only requested format. Is this possibly a bug?
TIA C+++