Template location not default.

rubyonrails-talk
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By default, Rails associates an action with a template having the same name as the name of the action and residing in a directory with the same name as the name of the controller.

Is there some way from within the action that I can change this behavior? I'm thinking that I could probably change it from within routes.rb; but, I'd really rather do it from within the action so that when I look at the action code I can clearly see what I did rather than spending time scratching my head and wondering why my action is displaying a non-default template.

Thanks for any input.

     ... doug

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sure:

render :template => 'path/to/template'

The path is rooted in /app/views.

-Bill

doug wrote:

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Thanks, Bill, for the input. So, am I to conclude that render :template (unlike just plain 'render') terminates execution of the action or do I need to add 'and return' to make sure that the action terminates at that point? Thanks.

       ... doug

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If you want to terminate at that point, you will have to add 'and return'.

--Bill

doug wrote: