Rails - Apr 2006 - Rendering an ApplicationController''s action

Hi !

I''ve pasted Rails Recipe #31: Authentication code, but I wish to use
these methods in several controllers. Then I pasted them in
ApplicationController, using before_filter method in all the other
needed controllers. The problem is that Rails always tries to render a
missing template inside the current controller (
app/views/controllers/admin/article/signin_form.rhtml ) while I''ve
uploaded it in app/views/application/siginin_form.rhtml ).

Is there an issue ?

Thanks for your help.

Eugenol wrote:
> I''ve pasted Rails Recipe #31: Authentication code, but I wish to
use
> these methods in several controllers. Then I pasted them in
> ApplicationController, using before_filter method in all the other
> needed controllers. The problem is that Rails always tries to render a
> missing template inside the current controller (
> app/views/controllers/admin/article/signin_form.rhtml ) while I''ve
> uploaded it in app/views/application/siginin_form.rhtml ).
You have to put the view in the shared folder and explictly call

    render ''shared/siginin_form''



Should rails be changed to automatically render views of shared
actions from the shared folder, so that an explict render of

    render "#{controller_name}/view"

is needed only if the view is controller-dependent?  Which
is the more common situation.  For me, it''s mostly been
a common view, but what option follows the principle of
least surprise?

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