# Including templates/views in plugins

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/including-templates-views-in-plugins/55504>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 21, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/including-templates-views-in-plugins/55504 "2006-03-21T18:14:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Esad\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/3da27b/32.png) [@Esad\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Esad_H)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/including-templates-views-in-plugins/55504/1 "2006-03-21T18:14:09Z")

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Hi!

I’m writing a datagrid plugin and would like to render the datagrid  
using a .rhtml template. However, I’d like to avoid placing this  
template in app/views/shared, but it should reside somewhere within  
vendor/plugins/datagrid/…

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Esad\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/3da27b/32.png) [@Esad\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Esad_H)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/including-templates-views-in-plugins/55504/2 "2006-03-21T18:20:25Z")

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I’d consider doing this as an engine.  
[http://rails-engines.org](http://rails-engines.org)

\_Kevin