Nesting View Folders

Rails
1

I like to nest my view folders the same way as my resources.

So, if I have:

map.resources :foos do |foos|
foos.resources :bars
end
map.resources :sums

Then I’ll structure my view folders like:

views/
foos/
bars/
sum/

To make this work, I need a tiny little extra line of code in the nested
controller to tell rails where to look for the templates. Specifically:

prepend_view_path “app/views/foos”

Just curious about people’s views on this. Any feedback/criticisms on
this method?

Thanks,

~ Mark

2

It’s an aesthetic decision, so…y’know, do what you want, but it’s
not necessary since you’re introducing complexity in having to
maintain a bunch of of prepend_view_path lines everywhere.

On Sep 10, 9:22 pm, Mark D. [email protected]

3

Thanks Eric – the more I think about this, I’m thinking it’s not a
good idea actually…

4

Not to mention the confusion when you start nesting a resource under
more than one parent; eg, you have foos/1/bars and woots/1/bars.

–Matt J.