Hi,
Is there a way I can figure out which files are run for a specific URL?
Given http://www.planet.com/countries files like: countries/ index.html.erb, countries/_country.html.erb, layouts/ application.html.erb and so on.
Thank You
Marcelo Barbudas wrote:
Given http://www.planet.com/countries files like: countries/ index.html.erb, countries/_country.html.erb, layouts/ application.html.erb and so on.
You really need to look at the routing and the controller code and the request type to know for sure.
http://www.planet.com/countries will generally go to the countries controller, the index method in that controller, using application.html.erb and the index.html.erb view to render the view. That is all dependent on the assumption that the application does not diverge from 'vanilla' Rails.
What template does the controller actually use? Does the index method go to index.html.erb, or is the controller method actually invoking a different view?, etc...
That'll get you to the first view level. Then you need to see what the particular view does. Does it include partials? If so, which ones and from where?
If developer followed starndart rules and pure REST, you could guess that
countries/105
will render
app/views/countries/show.html.erb
But sometimes it’s not that simple. So, you need to look at routes.rb to find which controller and action this URL calls. And then look inside action for irregular ‘render :something’.
Also, look through log/development(test/production).log for strings like “Rendering template something/something.erb”.
I’m not sure about Webrick, but Mongrel will show you that info in logs.
Probably not exactly what you’re after, but http://github.com/anildigital/partioprint might be of interest.
It adds (in dev mode) the names of partials as HTML comments in the output rendered via ERB files.
