title: Rails: Rendering Models?
body: <p>I can think of a million not-so-automatic ways to render a model in Rails, but I'm wondering if there's some built-in way to do it. I'd like to be able to this</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%=@thing -%&gt;
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  <p>obviously with partials you can do it (I mean, calling render :partial), but I'm wondering if there's some standard way to <strong>associate</strong> views with models.</p>
  
  <p>[Thanks in advance, weppos, for fixing the tags on this question :)]</p>