[Rails] error when rendering partial from an email template

Peter Michaux
2006-04-07T04:16:43Z

Hi,

For an ecommerce application, I am trying to create an html email that
summarizes a customers order. (This is very similar to the Agile Rails
book page 417.) My templates are in two directories.

views/
  order_mailer/
    sent.rhtml
  store/
    _order_summary.rhtml
    _line_item.rhtml

sent.rhtml needs to render the _order_summary.rhtml partial which
needs to render the _line_item.rhtml summary.

If I do the following in sent.rhtml I get an error that Rails can''t
find a partial named order_summary

render(:partial=>"store/order_summary")

I can make Rails find the partial if I do

render(:partial=>''../store/order_summary'')

but now the order_summary partial cannot find the line_item partial.

I assume now I have to change the render partial calls in
order_summary to have complete, explicit paths. This seems like a bit
of a kludge. Is there a way to avoid going through all my partial
calls in order_summary and giving every render partial an explicit
path?

Thanks,
Peter