From craig.cottingham at gmail.com  Wed Aug 12 01:10:57 2009
From: craig.cottingham at gmail.com (Craig S. Cottingham)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:10:57 -0500
Subject: [Dokkit-users] Support for partials
Message-ID: <F83889C2-3944-4AF2-A5F8-19AB9C065B40@gmail.com>

I'm having trouble figuring out how to use partials in Deplate pages.

After digging into the source code, I finally discovered that  
partials are included much as they are in Rails:

     <%= render :partial => 'name' %>

The first problem I ran into is that while an underscore is added to  
the front of the partial name, no extension is added. So I changed  
the inclusion of the partial to

     <%= render :partial => 'name.rhtml' %>

and added a file named '_name.rhtml' to the pages directory.

The second problem is that sometimes Dokkit renders the partial, and  
sometimes not. When it fails, it reports "No such file or directory -  
doc/pages/./_name", as if it is stripping off the extension from the  
filename. I *think* the render succeeds the first time after I run  
"rake clean", but then fails every time after that.

The third problem is that when the partial does render, its contents  
are being wrapped in an HTML p element, with the angle brackets  
escaped as HTML entities:

     &lt;p&gt;This is the contents of "name".&lt;/p&gt;

I suspect that this last problem has something to do with rendering  
the partial in a Deplate page rather than (say) the layout.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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