# Components and layouts **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 17, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197 "2005-11-17T17:57:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicholas.stuart)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197/1 "2005-11-17T17:57:21Z")
Is there anyway for a component to use the layouts availble to rest of the app, but still use the templates under its own directory? Setting the layout with a “layouts/admin” say, just produces “can not find admin.rhtml…”. Is there anyway around this? If not I guess I could just put the views under app/views, but really wanted to keep things seperate. Thanks! -Nick ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicholas.stuart)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197/2 "2005-11-17T18:06:23Z")
I try to call up images in my browser from my public/images directory and get a routing error. Here is my path [http://localhost:3000/images/logo.jpg](http://localhost:3000/images/logo.jpg) And the error Routing Error Recognition failed for “/images/logo.jpg” Any ideas why this would be happening? ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicholas.stuart)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197/3 "2005-11-17T21:26:11Z")
On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:56, Nick S. wrote: > Is there anyway for a component to use the layouts availble to rest > of the app, but still use the templates under its own directory? > Setting the layout with a “layouts/admin” say, just produces “can > not find admin.rhtml…”. Is there anyway around this? > > If not I guess I could just put the views under app/views, but > really wanted to keep things seperate. > Can symlink be an easy way out? > Btw, I’ve tried to supply full path to layout method, like > “#{RAILS\_ROOT}app/views/layouts/blah.rhtml” but with no success. I > wonder why so… ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicholas.stuart)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197/4 "2005-11-17T21:56:24Z")
Symlinking wont work in this case, its gotta be deployable on a windows box, ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicholas.stuart)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197/5 "2005-11-17T21:41:18Z")
On Friday 18 November 2005 00:04, jonathan Mcintire wrote: > Recognition failed for “/images/logo.jpg” > > Any ideas why this would be happening? > Are you sure logo.jpg is in public/images? And make sure the > permissions are correct. ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicholas.stuart)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197/6 "2005-11-17T23:10:08Z")
I had a similar problem and turned out my path to the image was missing a slash. Example: I had: images/logo.gif and Rails needed /images/logo.gif Not sure if it is the same for you or not, but you can give it a shot. ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicholas.stuart)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197/7 "2005-11-18T18:01:52Z")
Not quite. All the stuff under /public is working fine and as it should. My problem is that if I have views under /components/my\_component/comp/index.rhtml It can’t access a layout under /app/views/layouts/admin.rhtml For now I’ve moved the views of the components under app/views but this kind of defeats the purpose in my mind. Any other ideas on this? -Nick ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicholas.stuart)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197/8 "2005-11-18T22:00:20Z")
Hi Nick, On 11/18/05, Nick S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Not quite. All the stuff under /public is working fine and as it > should. My problem is that if I have views under > /components/my\_component/comp/index.rhtml > It can’t access a layout under /app/views/layouts/admin.rhtml > > For now I’ve moved the views of the components under app/views but > this kind of defeats the purpose in my mind. > > Any other ideas on this? I am using Subversion and I have solved this problem by using “svn:external” property to link components/layouts to /app/views/layouts. Not very beautiful solution but works on Windows. Best regards, Luben ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nicholas.stuart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicholas.stuart)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/components-and-layouts/48197/9 "2005-11-20T00:21:54Z")
Interesting idea Luben. This might be the route I go, but it looks like there is no ‘offical’ way to handle this. Guess I’ll have open up an enhancement request then… Thanks again! -Nick