Using Templates

When we write a view, we’re writing a template: something that will get expanded to generate the final result. To understand how these templates work, we need to look at three things:

• Where the templates go
• The environment they run in
• What goes inside them

Where do the templates go

The render() method expects to find templates in the app/views directory of the current application. Within this directory, the convention is to have a separate subdirectory for the views of each controller. Our Depot application, for instance, includes products and store controllers. As a result, our application has templates in app/views/products and app/views/store. Each ...