Is it just me or are layouts not namespaced automatically?
For example, using the typical namespaced admin section, I have:
apps/controllers/admin/users_controller.rb # for example
apps/views/admin/users/index.html.erb
I then added this:
apps/views/admin/layouts/application.html.erb
But it won't use that layout... it's looking for:
apps/views/layouts/application.html.erb
Why are views namespaced but layouts aren't? There are lots of
"solutions" to this, I know, but I'm trying to understand why Rails
won't look at "apps/views/admin/layouts/" for layouts within the admin
namespace?
Somewhat of an answer, somewhat of a new question...
It looks like layouts use namespacing, but "backwards" from everything
else. In other words, given my namespaced "admin", It would look for
layouts in:
apps/views/layouts/admin/whatever.html.erb
I'm wondering why that way and not:
apps/views/admin/layouts/whatever.html.erb
The advantage to the latter would be that layouts and views would all
"live" under the admin folder. Ahh well.
My guess is that layouts span across controllers and views...aka
namespaces. I have one layout for my entire app mostly. And where I
have another layout is for public pages, but these layout are in no
way controller specific. Thou I do see apps where this makes sense.
The application layout is for the entire application and it doesn't
care about what namespace you're in. If you really wanted a different
layout you could use the layout method in your controller to tell it
which one you want.
