"conditional" layout according to XHR or not

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Hi. This is what I mean: Let's consider a 'show' action called by URLs of the form: "GET /posts/ 42" In this project, this action can be either called directly or within a page with XHR (ajax). Is there a pretty way to render the page within the layout when it's a direct call, and without it when it's an XHR call?

Thank you...

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class FooController   layout :select_layout

  private   def select_layout     return nil if request.xhr?     "my_layout"   end end

Though if you're getting an xhr request shouldn't you be returning javascript anyway? There'd be no layout for that.

Pat

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Thanks!

Though if you're getting an xhr request shouldn't you be returning javascript anyway? There'd be no layout for that.

In that case, i'm returning the rendering of a partial (a form).