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Status

inherit_views works on rails 2.0-stable and 2.1-stable. To get this version checkout the rails-2.0-2.1 branch

  git clone git://github.com/ianhwite/inherit_views rails-2.0-2.1

inherit_views is broken on edge at the moment. Edge’s view internals have changed a lot, and so I’m working on a rewrite for edge. This is found in the master branch

inherit_views

This plugin allows your controllers to inherit their views from parent controllers. The default behaviour is to inherit along the ancestor path of the controller, but you can also specify custom inherit view paths to search.

NOTE: this plugin is not aimed at having multiple view paths for your controllers, which is addressed with the view_paths addition to ActionController::Base for rails 2.0. Rather, within these view paths, you can inherit views from other controller paths.

Example:

  class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
    inherit_views
  end

  class FooController < ApplicationController
    # will look for views in 'views/foo', then 'views/application'
  end

  class BarController < FooController
    # will look for views in 'views/bar', then 'views/foo', then 'view/application'
  end

You can also render the parent view in your views with

  <%= render_parent %>

See Ardes::InheritViews for more details

Specs and Coverage

• SPECDOC lists the specifications
• RSpec Report is a report of spec pass/fails
• RCov Report is the rcov report

Testing

RSpec is used for testing, so the tests are in spec/ rather than test/ Do rake —tasks for more details.