Frames in Rails

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Hi there

I'm relatively new to rails (and web development).

I want to insert a video into my site which can keep playing even when the user is browsing between pages. Should i do this with Frames or iFrames?

I tried to implement it using frames but got a little stuck...

My site has the welcome (home) page which contains no frames: www.mysite.com (www.mysite.com/home/index). Then there is the page to display once someone has logged in: www.mysite.com/projects/list

All pages except the home page use the application.html.erb layout.

I'm not sure how to integrate the frames html when I am using the application layout.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Tim

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Use another layout.

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Regardless of what I call the layout file, I still dont know how to make this work.

I was thinking of making my application.html.erb something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd&quot;&gt;

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head>   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />   <title>Title</title>   <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'style' %>   <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>

</head> <FRAMESET cols="900, *"> <FRAME src="/user/login">

</FRAME>

<FRAME src="video.html.erb???"> </FRAME>

</FRAMESET>

</html>

Unfortunately this is just rendering a blank frame. I have a whole bunch of other stuff I need to include like headers and footers which also previously went in application.html.erb, but I am unsure where to put that code now. How do I still include them?

Thanks

Tim

4

Also, is frames even the best way to do this?? I did a little test and it seems the URL will not change as I browse through my site when I am using frames. It will only keep original page with the frameset in the URL bar rather than the URL of the individual active frame. Surely there is a better way of doing this?