# A just a note for newbies

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-just-a-note-for-newbies/139664>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 5, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-just-a-note-for-newbies/139664 "2008-06-05T22:10:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Carl\_Wright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Carl\_Wright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Carl_Wright)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-just-a-note-for-newbies/139664/1 "2008-06-05T22:10:18Z")

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When your partial template just won’t display, you might have done  
what I did!

If the development.log shows it is rendered, but you see absolutely  
nothing in the page source or on the borwser, you proably did what I  
did.

I left out the “=”.

\<% render :partial =\> “shared/file” %\> is processed, but produces no  
output!

If you add the “=” to make:

\<%= render :partial =\> “shared/file” %\> it works just like you  
expected!!

Key words: partial, template, render, fail, missing, no output