Action Specific Layouts

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Greetings,

I'm wondering if I can do action specific layouts in an elegant way like this:

class AuthorsController < ApplicationController   before_filter :is_admin?, :only => [:new, :create, :edit, :update, :destroy]

  layout "admin", :except => [:index, :show]

  make_resourceful do     actions :index, :show, :new, :create, :edit, :update   end

end

I'm aware that you can do it in each action with:

def index   render :layout => "layout" end

However, in a need to keep it clean I don't want to write that. Looking at the layout method source, it appears that it should accept options. However, if I set :only or :except the layout is only correctly "admin" for the ones specified (or excepted), and the others render without a layout.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Jason

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perhaps a before or after filter to set it based on controller.action_name ?