I have a controller that needs to be able to insert some HTML into the DOM. The same HTML is rendered in the view by the server. I enabled support for ERB with Webpacker , but a call to <%= render partial: 'shared/thing' %> doesn’t work. I’ve tried using the full path as well, but no joy. It simply …

Check out ApplicationController.renderer: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/new-feature-in-rails-5-render-views-outside-of-actions https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Renderer.html

Thanks for the reply. I did look into this, and I can’t get it working. This code doesn’t work: const html = `<%= ApplicationController.renderer.render template: 'shared/condition' %>` It’s not a renderer.render error, though, because this works: const html = `<%= ApplicationController.renderer.r…

Just out of curiosity. Do you use ERB templates in Stimulus controllers at Basecamp?

@javan what about rendering HTML where it doesn’t make sense to hold up the UI for a server call? Is there a recommended best practice for something like that? A good example would be clicking something and placing a marker on it, or showing a popover with a form that may be a new or an edit form i…

Sharing HTML between Stimulus and Rails view

javan October 3, 2018, 1:54pm 5

No, we don’t have any .js.erb files at Basecamp. The majority of our HTML is server-rendered using standard .html.erb templates.

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