Aug 31 2009
We recently described our experimental Cucumber directory convention.
Here’s another directory convention I’ve been using. Mise en place.
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app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
app/views/layouts/_flashes.html.erb
app/views/layouts/_footer.html.erb
app/views/layouts/_header.html.erb
app/views/layouts/_javascript.html.erb
app/views/layouts/_navigation.html.erb
I want the layout directory to contain… layouts.
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
Then I’ll use the shared directory for global partials.
app/views/shared/_flashes.html.erb
app/views/shared/_footer.html.erb
app/views/shared/_header.html.erb
app/views/shared/_javascript.html.erb
app/views/shared/_navigation.html.erb
This is recommended in the classic tome, Agile Web Development with Rails, but often overlooked.
In fact, Suspenders is currently out of line with this practice. I vote to change it! Yeas & Nays?
Bonus: when you extract a partial from a layout in rails.vim using :Rextract, it will automatically place the extracted partial into the shared directory.
It feels good to share.
