render partial as full template

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I would like to render a partial template as a full template. The reason is that the partial contains content normally displayed via xhr and I want to display it also if my app degrades.

The way I do this now is to have a full template containing one line like the below, but I'd rather do away with it because it seems a pointless one line file:- /app/views/my_controller/my_full_template.html.erb: <%= render :partial => "my_partial_template" %>

I call this from the controller like this: render :action => :my_full_template

What I'd like to do is render "my_partial_template" directly from the controller but render it as a full template so that it is displayed within my application layout.

The following is one solution but I think it isn't very elegant render :template => "my_controller/_my_partial_template)"

Is there a better way to achieve this?

Many thanks.

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What I'd like to do is render "my_partial_template" directly from the controller but render it as a full template so that it is displayed within my application layout.

The following is one solution but I think it isn't very elegant render :template => "my_controller/_my_partial_template)"

You can just call render :partial => '...' in your controller.

Fred

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Frederick Cheung wrote:

You can just call render :partial => '...' in your controller.

Fred, hi. You can indeed do that but that renders JUST the partial, it does not render the whole page layout like rendering a full template does.

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John Lane wrote:

Frederick Cheung wrote:

You can just call render :partial => '...' in your controller.

Fred, hi. You can indeed do that but that renders JUST the partial, it does not render the whole page layout like rendering a full template does.

render :partial => '...', :layout => true

maybe?