"./blah/blah" vs. "/blah/blah"

Rails
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Hello,
Earlier in my rails application, I was using the convention of writing
the
following to refer to templates and/or views in the view folder.
“./blah/blah”

But in the Edge rail, it doesn’t work and the page doesn’t shows any
output
there is no error in the development log as well. But changing the above
to
“/blah/blah” seems to fix things.

Was I wrong in using the earlier convention or is something else amiss?

Thanks.

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Surendra S. wrote:

Hello,
Earlier in my rails application, I was using the convention of writing
the
following to refer to templates and/or views in the view folder.
“./blah/blah”

But in the Edge rail, it doesn’t work and the page doesn’t shows any
output
there is no error in the development log as well. But changing the above
to
“/blah/blah” seems to fix things.

Was I wrong in using the earlier convention or is something else amiss?

I thought the convention was to leave out the beginning slash and just
write ‘blah/blah’.

-matthew

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Matthew I. [email protected] writes:

to
“/blah/blah” seems to fix things.

Was I wrong in using the earlier convention or is something else amiss?

I thought the convention was to leave out the beginning slash and just
write ‘blah/blah’.

Nope, not when one is giving an absolute path, starting from the views
folder.

So, if your view is in a folder ‘home’ then Rails, will assume that
‘blah/blah’ points to home/blah/blah

–
Surendra S.
http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com

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Matthew I. [email protected] writes:

to
“/blah/blah” seems to fix things.

Was I wrong in using the earlier convention or is something else amiss?

I thought the convention was to leave out the beginning slash and just
write ‘blah/blah’.

My bad, thanks for pointing this out.

Surendra S.
http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com
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