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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 19, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-cant-an-html-actionmailer-view-share-a-partial-with-a-web-view/170563 "2009-06-19T01:13:16Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-cant-an-html-actionmailer-view-share-a-partial-with-a-web-view/170563/1 "2009-06-19T01:13:16Z")
Railsters:
I’m on the second project in a row where I would like to snip out one
div from a
view and mail it around. I want to put the div in a partial and share
the
partial into the mail.
Am I misunderstanding things, or does Rails (2.3.2) prevent me from
doing this?
If so, why?
–
Phlip
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**Author:**  [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-cant-an-html-actionmailer-view-share-a-partial-with-a-web-view/170563/2 "2009-06-19T07:51:09Z")
Phlip wrote:
> Railsters:
>
> I’m on the second project in a row where I would like to snip out one
> div from a
> view and mail it around. I want to put the div in a partial and share
> the
> partial into the mail.
>
> Am I misunderstanding things, or does Rails (2.3.2) prevent me from
> doing this?
> If so, why?
>
> –
> Phlip
Can’t you put those divs in a helper and use that?
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**Author:**  [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-cant-an-html-actionmailer-view-share-a-partial-with-a-web-view/170563/3 "2009-06-19T22:29:50Z")
> Railsters:
>
> I’m on the second project in a row where I would like to snip out one div from a
> view and mail it around. I want to put the div in a partial and share the
> partial into the mail.
>
> Am I misunderstanding things, or does Rails (2.3.2) prevent me from doing this?
> If so, why?
Bump?
Or is Rails vs MVC too sensitive a topic? (-;
–
Phlip
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**Author:**  [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-cant-an-html-actionmailer-view-share-a-partial-with-a-web-view/170563/4 "2009-06-19T22:50:07Z")
On Jun 19, 9:28 pm, Phlip [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> > Railsters:
>
> > I’m on the second project in a row where I would like to snip out one div from a
> > view and mail it around. I want to put the div in a partial and share the
> > partial into the mail.
>
> > Am I misunderstanding things, or does Rails (2.3.2) prevent me from doing this?
> > If so, why?
Works for me. What have you been trying?
Fred
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**Author:**  [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-cant-an-html-actionmailer-view-share-a-partial-with-a-web-view/170563/5 "2009-06-19T23:17:55Z")
Frederick C. wrote:
> Works for me. What have you been trying?
We were trying an awesome new plugin called pilot\_error…
Beyond that, at my last gig we might have mangled the snot out of the
paths to
the templates, so maybe that explains the perceived problem.
I will try it your way and see what happens tx!
–
Phlip