Rails 2.0 view template format
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I recently tried Rails 2.0 using InstantRails 2.0. When I tried scaffolding to make a quick test I was surprised to see that the template files for the views have a different extension. It now has the .html.erb extension instead of the .rhtml. What’s the reason for this? |
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the name is now split into two suffixes to determine the content type you’re responding to and the renderer you’re using in this case .html.erb means you’re returning html and using ERB to render the template for example, if you were using HAML your template would be named .html.haml |
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I see. That’s why when I viewed the methods in the generated controller all of the methods have a respond_to statement. |
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It makes it easier to determine what content type and renderer is being used. It also means that if you setup your own content types, you’d easily be able to setup the associated templates. For example, there’ve been a fair few posts around setting up a content type for the iphone – the associated templates for these are index.iphone.erb for example. Akita has a good post about features in Rails 2 on his blog |
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