render .rhtmlx if present, otherwise render .rhtml

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We have a product where our customer is "allowed" to make minor changes to the .rhtml views.

Obviously, this can be an issue when updating the software, as changes need to be merged in. Also, sometimes the customer wants to back out there change but no longer has the original file.

SOOO....

I'd like to tell them - if you want to change a .rhtml file - just copy it to .rhtmlx and change away

Then rails will pick up the .rhtmlx if present, otherwise will render the normal .rhtml

Any idea of a good/easy way to do this ?

-- THanks

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No clue if this works, but it's an idea from looking at ActionView for a few minutes.....

path = "show" if template_exists?(path, :rhtmlx)   render :action => "#{path}.rhtmlx" else   render :action => path end

Look at how ActionView picks which template to render for further reference: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb

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I'm not really sure on this, but I've been reading up on RESTful stuff lately and this seems like it could be a great use for the respond_to? example here: