hi all
i would like to design my site so there is a master layout which is the same for every page or a group of pages then a layout for each controller, as scaffolds create, which gets embedded within the master layout. then finally within this layout the actual action code is displayed.
is this possible? what is the code to embed a layout within a layout?
thanks
marc
- application.rhtml is the master layout that gets rendered if no other layout is specified. inside it, you put something like this to the place where your "subtemplate" of each controller should go in ...some HTML... <%= yield :sublayout %> ...someHTML... - now you have a controller named "articles", then you create a layout "articles.rhtml" inside it you do e.g. this:
<%content_for "sublayout" do %> <div id="sublayout"> blablabla <%= yield %> (This puts the rendered template of the action that was requested in here) blablabla <div> <%end%> <%= render :file "layouts/application.rhrml%> (this renders the master layout around it)
1) rails renders the action template (e.g. "show.rhtml"), 2) puts it inside the controller's "articles.rhtml" layout, which is saved to the content_for "sublayout" 3) "application.rhtml" is rendered, and the whole "articles.rhtml" is oput inside it where you specified <%= yield :subtemplate %> You may read this article about best practice for sidebars in rails, the idea is usable for stuff like this too: