title: Rails: Render a specific partial (other than an object's default)
body: <p>I want to render some child items with something other than their default partial (i.e., <code>app/views/child_items/_child_item.html.erb</code>). The default one was scaffolded and it isn't great for public viewing of something, but I still want to keep it for back-end management purposes.</p>
  
  <p>This is what I'm going for inside the view of the parent item, assuming a partial defined in <code>app/views/child_items/_alternate_partial.html.erb</code>:</p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;%= render containing_object.child_items, :partial =&gt; 'child_items/alternate_partial' %&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>But the child items still render with their default partial.</p>