I have two actions, that I want to use the same template. However, the template is stored in a non-stardard location (a subdirectory under views/<controller>). My original code looked like:
def edit_member <do stuff here> render :template => "path/to/template/edit_member" end
def add_member <do stuff here> render :action => :edit_member end
The intent here is that add_member is a special case of edit_member. Edit_member points to its template (an .rjs file), and add_member points to edit_member to pick up the same template
Unfortunately, add_member does not find the template. Apparently it tries to find where the default template would be stored for edit_member (app/views/<controller>/edit_member.???)
Obviously, I could repeate the render :template line in add_member, but would prefer to only list the path/template name once. Is there some way to do this? Or some way to have the templates for each action listed external to the action definition?
The documentation doesn't describe what "render :action" does very well. Just "renders the template for the action", which is something of a circular definition.
Thanks, sjf
