# Help understanding view\_paths in edge rails? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 2, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-understanding-view-paths-in-edge-rails/108379 "2007-07-02T22:54:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/uncle)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-understanding-view-paths-in-edge-rails/108379/1 "2007-07-02T22:54:14Z")
Edge rails has something I really want/need, the ability to have a list of paths searched when trying to locate a view template file, basically they have changed the single template\_root path to an array called view\_paths. Here is a link to the a modified ActionController::Base [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/actionpack/lib/action\_controller/base.rb?rev=6120](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb?rev=6120) starting on line 360, they have this bit 369 @@view\_paths = {} 370 371 # View load paths determine the bases from which template references can be made. So a call to 372 # render(“test/template”) will be looked up in the view load paths array and the closest match will be 373 # returned. 374 def view\_paths=(value) 375 @@view\_paths[name] = value 376 end my question is where does the name come from on line 375 ! ie the key for the hash ??? Also, any advice on how to pluck out just the view\_paths stuff and add to my stable 1.2.3 ? – Thanks