# Easy Way to identify Partials **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 12, 2009, 10:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134 "2009-10-12T10:31:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 10:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134/1 "2009-10-12T10:31:16Z")
Hey there, here we have a bunch of interns, so called marketing specialists and other folks just pushing out more and more layouts, views and partials. Now when theres a SEO wanting to change a link on page A to point to landing page 123 isntead of landing page 234 it can be a pain to jsut find the file where this link is generated. Do you know of an easy way to identify which part of a page comes from which partial file? Perhaps a plugin adding a border or something? Greeting Mike ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134/2 "2009-10-12T15:08:37Z")
Your log file lists all of the partials that are rendered to build up a page - is that enough information? mine looks like this for example. Rendered ratings/\_rate (258.6ms) Rendered resources/\_single\_resource (268.7ms) Rendered resources/\_resource (276.7ms) Rendered resources/\_property\_hyperlinks (1.6ms) Rendered resources/\_note\_tag\_list (0.8ms) Rendered taggings/\_tags\_section (1.4ms) listing those has highlighted the fact that some of them are very slow, must go and see if i can optimise them… ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134/3 "2009-10-13T22:18:36Z")
Thanks for your. I was already aware of the log file. It is OK, but it would be fine if i had some hints in the rendered HTML. Something like Flux Compensator # Showing you a Product Product Name: **Flux Compensator** Parts: Hypercapacitor Gizmo Thank you for your interest in Flux Compensator [Index](https://www.ruby-forum.com/products) It would be lovely if there was a plugin that accomplishes this. I would also appreciate any hint as to how achieve this functionality. Thanks, Mike On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Max W. \< ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134/4 "2009-10-14T00:06:02Z")
Greg D. wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:29 AM, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Do you know of an easy way to identify which part of a page comes from which > > partial file? Perhaps a plugin adding a border or something? > > This will add comments to your erb templates: […] Ooh, neat! I’ll have to play with that – thanks for sharing it. ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 10:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134/5 "2009-10-14T10:56:10Z")
Yay, thank you Greg! On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser \< ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134/6 "2009-10-14T00:01:39Z")
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:29 AM, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Do you know of an easy way to identify which part of a page comes from which > partial file? Perhaps a plugin adding a border or something? This will add comments to your erb templates: unless RAILS\_ENV == ‘production’ module ActionView module TemplateHandlers class ERB \< TemplateHandler include Compilable cattr\_accessor :erb\_trim\_mode self.erb\_trim\_mode = ‘-’ def compile(template) src = ::ERB.new(“\<% \_\_in\_erb\_template=true %\>\n\n#{ template.source}\n\n”, nil, erb\_trim\_mode, ‘@output\_buffer’).src RUBY\_VERSION \>= ‘1.9’ ? src.sub(/\A#coding:.\*\n/, ‘’) : src end end end end end Mine lives in my environment.rb. – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134/7 "2009-10-14T11:37:44Z")
On Oct 13, 9:16 pm, mike [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > It would be lovely if there was a plugin that accomplishes this. I would > also appreciate any hint as to how achieve this functionality. I wrote this a little while ago: [GitHub - fcheung/tattler](http://github.com/fcheung/tattler) Fred ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134/8 "2009-10-16T17:02:50Z")
Nice Plugin! ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 12:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-identify-partials/177134/9 "2009-10-16T12:21:51Z")
Greg, your solution works great. However, it can interfere with js templates. So i added \<% if request and request.xhr? %\> to the injected code. Frederick, will look into it when im in the office 🙂 Greetings 2009/10/13, Greg D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > ``` > module TemplateHandlers > end > > ``` > > > – Von meinen Mobilgerät aus gesendet