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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 12, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-you-put-layout-rhtml-into-a-database-blob/109234 "2007-07-12T16:34:27Z")\
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**Author:**  [@ian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ian)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-you-put-layout-rhtml-into-a-database-blob/109234/1 "2007-07-12T16:34:27Z")
Is there a way to move the layout .rhtml into a database blob?
I would like to get the information from the database and pass that to
the ActiveRecord layout and then have it pull the rest as normal.
e.g.
class WeblogController \< ActionController::Base
layout :get\_template
def get\_template
@attachment = current\_project.layout
send\_data(@attachment.get\_data(current\_project),
:filename =\> @attachment.name,
:type =\> @attachment.content\_type,
:disposition =\> ‘attachment’)
end
so that the layout can be passed from the database (or maybe not even
as an attachment just as a long text field).
any ideas?
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**Author:**  [@ian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ian)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-you-put-layout-rhtml-into-a-database-blob/109234/2 "2007-07-12T21:13:09Z")
ian wrote:
> def get\_template
> any ideas?
> The layout needs to be a file on disk cf. the source of
> ActionController::Base.
What you can do is either: Write the layout to disk before calling
render or create your own layout system and use render :text.
–
Cheers,
- Jacob A.
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**Author:**  [@ian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ian)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-you-put-layout-rhtml-into-a-database-blob/109234/3 "2007-07-12T21:21:10Z")
Hi,
Layouts might be a bit much, I was looking for something like a
blogger template that you can insert partial files in given places.
This way you could add a banner, table of contents, comments, footer,
etc in the template and have this render like a layout and pull in
partials and page variables as needed.