I (usually) use partials without problem, but i started a new project, quitely install the fuel project, and made a public controller extended from Controller_Hybrid, and set a partial. And the partial is undefined in th template.
What am I doing wrong ? In the template, (I use twig), the partial var is undefined. But when i debug all defined vars, i got my partial as a child of the object(Fuel\Core\Theme)#21. So it work more or less, just the partial var not initialised. I have to tell i'm a little tired and i don't see where the error come from.
For partial, you wrote $partials with a S at the end, the doc say $partial without S. Anyway, i try the two, $partial and $partials are null.
Edit : for twig, $partial['var'] become {{ partial.var }}, but it's irrelevant anyway.
Edit: Solved. The parent::before was guilty. The parent before() create a template object from the template string given. Obviously, the Theme instance get_template method need a string. It works with a template object, but the partials aren't rendering. Thanks you though, Harro.