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Rendering partials from other view modules in Phoenix

Playing with Elixir and Phoenix at the moment, so here is a small snippet.

When you want to render a partial template that sits in a different view module, here's the syntax:

<%= render ApplicationName.ViewModule, viewname, conn: @conn %>

So, for example, if we have the following application structure:

web
 - controllers
   - about_controller.ex
   - page_controller.ex
 - templates
   - about
     - index.html.eex
   - page
     - index.html.eex
 - views
   - about_view.ex
   - page_view.ex

And we want to include the about/index page on our page/index, we can do the following somewhere in our index.html.eex:

<%= render Myapp.AboutView, "indexhtml", conn: @conn %>
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