Some copy edits for modifying View Paths [ci skip]

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Zachary Scott 2015-04-12 14:43:25 -07:00
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View Paths
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In case, you want to modify the default view path of a controller, you could either prepend or append to the view path, based on the need of looking it up before or after.
When rendering the view for a request, the controller needs to resolve where to find each of the directories are located.
We are able to modify the order these locations are resolved by using `prepend_view_path` and `append_view_path`.
This allows us to add new paths to the beginning or end of the list used to resolve these paths.
### Prepend view path
Example: Change view paths for different sub-domains. Prepend to the view path by doing
This can be helpful for example, when we want to prepend a different directory for subdomains.
We can do this by using:
```prepend_view_path "app/views/#{request.subdomain}"```
After this, views will be looked up in this order ```[~/rails_app/app/views/<subdomain>, ~/rails_app/app/views]```
Then our list becomes something like:
```
[
~/rails_app/app/views/<subdomain>,
~/rails_app/app/views,
# ...
]
```
This will put the subdomain path at the beginning of the list.
### Append view path
Similarly, to append to the view paths you would do it with
Similarly, we can append paths:
```append_view_path "app/views/direct"```.
This would add ```app/views/direct``` and the end of lookup paths for views.
This will add ```app/views/direct``` and the end of lookup paths for views.
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