After chatting with Beppu this is the expected behaviour from Squatting and this keeps it in line with what Camping does when you request a view prefixed with a _

So u can still use above “fix”. Alternatively just rename your template to be prefixed with a _

/I3az/

Unfortunately my TT code above doesn’t cope with the fact that $self->{template} would be prefixed with the “_” ;-(

Below is a fixed App::Views….

package App::Views;
use Squatting ':views';
use Template;

our @V = (

    V(
        'html',
        tt => Template->new( $App::CONFIG{ TT }->{ config } ),

        layout => sub {
            my ( $self, $v, $body ) = @_;
            my $tt = $self->{ tt };
            $v->{ site_tit } = $App::CONFIG{ TT }->{ site_tit };
            $v->{ body     } = $body;

            $tt->process( 'layout'. $App::CONFIG{ TT }->{ postfix }, $v, \my $output)
                or return view_error( $tt->error );
            return $output;
        },

        _ => sub {
            my ( $self, $v ) = @_;
            my $tt = $self->{ tt };
            $v->{ R } = \&R;

            $tt->process(
                tt_template( $self->{template} ) . $App::CONFIG{ TT }->{ postfix },
                $v, \my $output)
                or return view_error( $tt->error );
            return $output;
        }

    ),
);

sub view_error {
    my ( $error ) = shift;
    warn $error;
    return "<pre>" . $error . "</pre>\n";   # really need to HTML encode $error here
}

sub tt_template {
    my $template = shift;
    $template =~ s/^_//;
    return $template;
}

Thats better

/I3az/