Finding layouts

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I'm trying to find out whether a particular layout file exists at runtime. I need to potentially change the layout depending on which "site" a customer is visiting. I can do this by calling a method in the controller to determine the layout similar to:

   def customer_layout      if @site_id.nil?        return "customer_standard"      else        return "customer_site_" + @site_id.to_s      end    end

I need to determine if a particular site does indeed have a custom layout, if not then fall back to the standard one. So I need to see if "customer_site_123.rhtml" actually exists in the layout directory. The problem is I don't want to hard code absolute paths that are certain to change on deployment.

Is there a way to determine what the current layout directory is so I can use that to try and find the file?

Eventually this will apply to css and image folders so any pointer there will help too.

Thanks, Gary.

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RAILS_ROOT is the "top" of your application, so you can do a check like:

   File.exists?("#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/views/layouts/somefile.rhtml")