Renaming views for Rails 2.0
Now that Rails 2.0 has officially been released, I’ve been porting a few choice applications to the new version. I’ve been maintaining a rake file with various tasks to assist me in the process. Here’s a particularly useful one that will rename your views to the new action.format.renderer format:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | # $> rake upgrade:views:rename namespace :upgrade do namespace :views do desc 'Renaming all views to new Rails 2.0 format: action.format.renderer' task :rename do Dir.glob('app/views/**/[^_]*.rhtml').each do |file| puts `svn mv #{file} #{file.gsub(/\.rhtml$/, '.html.erb')}` end Dir.glob('app/views/**/[^_]*.rxml').each do |file| puts `svn mv #{file} #{file.gsub(/\.rxml$/, '.xml.builder')}` end Dir.glob('app/views/**/[^_]*.rjs').each do |file| puts `svn mv #{file} #{file.gsub(/\.rjs$/, '.js.rjs')}` end Dir.glob('app/views/**/[^_]*.haml').each do |file| puts `svn mv #{file} #{file.gsub(/\.haml$/, '.html.haml')}` end end end end |
The existing .rhtml templates will still work in Rails 2.0, so this isn’t mandatory or anything. But it’s a good idea to get used to the new format, as it’s a nice convention for dealing with what your actions can respond_to.