if on certain page display, else display

rubyonrails-talk
1

Hello, first off sorry i am new and a dumbass but I need help with this.

In my view/application file i have some css and I want a certain bit of css displayed if a user is in one controller but another type of css to be display if they are in another controller. I made up the following which totally doesnt work.

<% if :controller => 'pages', :action => 'index' , :action => 'about' %>      <div id='home'></div>

    <% else %>

    <div id='other'></div>

    <% end %>

If you know of a way to make this work so that certain css is displayed when a user is on the home page and about page, but then the css changes when they are on any other page I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

2

Yeah I guess I can do that, but its just I didn't want to have to create a new layout just for one simple line of code. But thanks for the suggestion if I cant find a way to do it I will do it that way.

3

found the answer if anyone else is looking for it

<% if controller.controller_name == "pages" %>

<div id='home'></div>

    <% else %>

    <div id='other'></div>

    <% end %>