Hey folks,
I've run into the need to test for the existence of template files in several Rails apps I've worked on. Particularly in circumstances where I'm rendering a partial, and use a different partial template for different sub-classes of a model object. When doing so, I often test to make sure the template file exists first, and simply skip that item if no template exists.
So right now I rely on a cludgy and annoying:
File.exist?( File.join( ActionController::Base.template_root, "layouts", "some_subdir", "_%s.rhtml" % method_param ))
Anyone have a better, more elegant (and less hackish) method of doing this?
-Justin Wienckowski jwinky@stacksafe.com