I have a controller called ProjectsController
. Its actions, by default, look for views inside app/views/projects
. I'd like to change that path for all methods (index
, show
, new
, edit
etc...) in the controller.
For example:
class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
#I'd like to be able to do something like this
views_path 'views/mycustomfolder'
def index
#some code
end
def show
#some code
end
def new
#some code
end
def edit
#some code
end
end
Please note I am not changing each method with render
but defining a default path for all of them. Is this possible? If so, how?
Thank you!
If there's no built-in method for this, perhaps you can override render
for that controller?
class MyController < ApplicationController
# actions ..
private
def render(*args)
options = args.extract_options!
options[:template] = "/mycustomfolder/#{params[:action]}"
super(*(args << options))
end
end
Not sure how well this works out in practice, or if it works at all.
See ActionView::ViewPaths::ClassMethods#prepend_view_path.
class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
prepend_view_path 'app/views/mycustomfolder'
...
You can do this inside your controller:
def self.controller_path
"mycustomfolder"
end
You can add something like:
paths.app.views << "app/views/myspecialdir"
in the config/application.rb file to have rails look in another directory for view templates. The one caveat is that it'll still look for view files that match the controller. So if you have a controller named HomeController with the above config for the views it'll look for something named "app/views/myspecialdir/home/index.html.erb" to render.
If you want to change the default path for all your views at app level, you could do something like following -
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_action :set_views
private
def set_views
prepend_view_path "#{Rails.root.join('app', 'views', 'new_views')}"
end
end
And write all your views in the folder new_views
following the same directory structure as original.
P.S. - This answer is inspired from @mmell's answer.