How to change the default path of view files in a Rails 3 controller?

Question

I have a controller called ProjectsController. Its actions, by default, look for views inside app/views/projects. I\'d like to change that path for

Answer 1

If there's no built-in method for this, perhaps you can override render for that controller?

class MyController < ApplicationController
  # actions ..

  private

  def render(*args)
    options = args.extract_options!
    options[:template] = "/mycustomfolder/#{params[:action]}"
    super(*(args << options))
  end
end

Not sure how well this works out in practice, or if it works at all.