A shorter and cleaner way to render partials in Rails

application_helper.rb

module ApplicationHelper
  
  # Wraps the commonly used `render partial:` to just `partial`
  def partial(path, options={}, &block)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
    render partial: path.to_s, **options, &block                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  end
  
end

my_view.html.erb

<div>
  
  <%# Symbols will work: %>
  <%= partial :form, locals: {foo: "bar"} %>
  
  <%# Or, if you need/want a string: %>
  <%= partial "shared/header" %>
</div>