# How would u do this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 2, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040 "2008-07-02T20:58:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nahabed)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040/1 "2008-07-02T20:58:41Z")
Pardon the newbism 🙂 I’ve inhereted this bit of code and it is being used in a couple of rhtml files. I’d like to avoid duplicate code by pulling this out somehow - how would you do this? This is an ecommerce app and the code is for the credit card expiration date fields. ` <%= text_field "orderdetail","month",:class =>'graymonth',:value =>'mm',:size => '4',:MAXLENGTH => 2,:onfocus=>"if(this.value=='mm') this.value='';" %> <% if @is_expiration_month_error != nil and @is_expiration_month_error == 'false' %>/ <%= text_field "orderdetail","year",:class =>'graymonth',:value=>'yyyy',:size => '8',:MAXLENGTH => 4,:onfocus=>"if(this.value=='yyyy') this.value='';" %><% end %> ` Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nahabed)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040/2 "2008-07-02T21:09:15Z")
On Jul 2, 7:57 pm, nahabed [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Pardon the newbism 🙂 I’ve inhereted this bit of code and it is being > used in a couple of rhtml files. I’d like to avoid duplicate code by > pulling this out somehow - how would you do this? This is an ecommerce > app and the code is for the credit card expiration date fields. You could extract it into a partial you share accross the app. Fred ---
**Author:** ![nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nahabed)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040/3 "2008-07-02T23:13:39Z")
good idea 🙂 thanks. Now, I have a partial \_foo living under app/views/user and I am trying to call it from inside bar.rhtml which lives under app/views/purchase I am getting “Couldn’t find template file for purchase/\_foo” error How to get around this? On Jul 2, 12:08 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nahabed)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040/4 "2008-07-02T23:21:15Z")
On Jul 2, 10:12 pm, nahabed [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > good idea 🙂 thanks. > > Now, I have a partial \_foo living under app/views/user and I am trying > to call it from inside bar.rhtml which lives under app/views/purchase > > I am getting “Couldn’t find template file for purchase/\_foo” error > > How to get around this? Specify the path to the template, ie render :partial =\> ‘user/ foo’ (might need a leading / there, can’t remember). I sometimes put shared partials in a folder called something like shared, so that it doesn’t look like they belong more to one thing than another. Fred ---
**Author:** ![nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nahabed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040/5 "2008-07-03T04:44:29Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > I sometimes put > shared partials in a folder called something like shared, so that it > doesn’t look like they belong more to one thing than another. > > Fred In my “persnickety-ness”, I take that approach one step further by have an entire directory structure for partials that mirrors the views folder (and sometimes includes further division). So if I have app/views – order – person – product I’ll also have app/views/partials – order – person – product It might sound like a lot to manage, but since I tend to have a boat load of partials, it is very well organized and incredibly easy to share across different resources where they might be needed. Peace, Phillip ---
**Author:** ![nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nahabed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 9:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040/6 "2008-07-03T09:56:55Z")
> app/views/partials > – order > – person > – product Do you use the same approach when you have nested resources?? > It might sound like a lot to manage, but since I tend to have a boat > load of partials, it is very well organized and incredibly easy to share > across different resources where they might be needed. Do you put ALL partials in there? or only the shared? ---
**Author:** ![nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nahabed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040/7 "2008-07-03T16:23:43Z")
“Wolas!” wrote: > > app/views/partials > > – order > > – person > > – product > > Do you use the same approach when you have nested resources?? There is some “debate” about the usefulness of nested resources. I started to use them, but decided that it was better for me to not. So I map an invoice resource separately from a customer resource even though an invoice cannot exist independently. So in my partials subfolder, I would have folders for customer partials and invoice partials. > > It might sound like a lot to manage, but since I tend to have a boat > > load of partials, it is very well organized and incredibly easy to share > > across different resources where they might be needed. > > Do you put ALL partials in there? or only the shared? I started with having only shared ones in there, but I found that I did not like having partials in two places, so I moved all of them into that structure. Now I know where they are without having to think about whether they are shared or not. Web Blogger mentioned using a nested folder depending on the purpose of the partials. I do this too. For example, I have a wizard process for adding players, coaches, referees, etc to a sports system. These processes happen via a sports controller, so in my folder structure, I have app/views/sports app/views/partials/sports app/views/partials/sports/wizard (I wrote the wizard in such a way that the same partials are used regardless of whether it’s a player, coach, or referee). Peace, Phillip ---
**Author:** ![nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nahabed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040/8 "2008-07-03T13:58:25Z")
Ya I prefer making a shared or a partials folder i my views where in I would keep the partials which I use very often ,we can also create a folder as a nested folder depending upon the purpose. ## JON ---
**Author:** ![nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nahabed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nahabed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-u-do-this/142040/9 "2008-07-03T21:18:53Z")
Thanks for the explanation and your time. best j On Jul 3, 3:23 pm, Phillip K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)