Rails view search path

I'd like to somehow change the view serach path in Rails such that when a view like say _show.rhtml is requested it first looks in path x, then y and finally z.

This mechanism would allow me to more properly subclass controllers in that I can also inherit or override the views associated with the super controller.

Look into editing the config/routes.rb file.

It seems you don't understand the problem. The routes.rb file is of no use to accomplish this.

Consider controller B which inherits from controller A. Both controllers implement a method “show”. A::show renders the template show.rhtml which in turn renders embedded templates show_part1.rhtml and show_part2.rhtml.

Ideally, I should now be able to implement my own versions of any or none of these view templates in controller B. The idea is that any view implemented for B will override the view implemented for A.

In a nutshell, what I really want is to change the Rails view lookup path. Controller B would simply append Controller A’s view path to the Rails view lookup path.

Here is a solution:

Subclassing controllers and views