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I created something at my job that has proven to be extremely useful that I think many people could benefit from. I like to call it Easy Partials, and the goal is to make using partials a bit easier (in case the name didn't make that glaringly obvious). The problem is that rendering a partial requires method calls when a little extra work will allow simpler and more readable partial invocation via convention. You are probably lost, so let me give you some examples. As it stands today, to render a partial you would do: