# Different titles

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/different-titles/173640>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 12, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/different-titles/173640 "2009-08-12T15:55:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/58f4c7/32.png) [@webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/webstic)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/different-titles/173640/1 "2009-08-12T15:55:31Z")

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hi!

I want to have different titles in my weblog.

in my app/views/layout/post.html.erb

i have this in head: \<%= controller.action\_name %\> :: webstic  
blog 🙂

thats fine if im in page that listing my blog articles!

but if i chooce to view a page i want the title.post in my

how i can do that?

thanks

philip.g

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**Author:** ![webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/58f4c7/32.png) [@webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/webstic)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/different-titles/173640/2 "2009-08-12T16:06:17Z")

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Philip G. wrote:

> hi!
> 
> I want to have different titles in my weblog.
> 
> in my app/views/layout/post.html.erb
> 
> i have this in head: \<%= controller.action\_name %\> :: webstic  
> blog 🙂
> 
> thats fine if im in page that listing my blog articles!
> 
> but if i chooce to view a page i want the title.post in my
> 
> how i can do that?
> 
> thanks
> 
> philip.g

i found it! sorry for the rush post!

i could help im writing what i’ve did:

in my app/views/layout/posts.html.erb

\<%= yield :title %\>:: my fisrt rails blog :)

in my app/views/posts/index.html.erb

\<% content\_for :title do %\>  
\<%= controller.action\_name %\>  
\<% end %\>

and my \_post partial

\<% content\_for :title do %\>  
\<%= post.title %\>  
\<% end %\>

this works for me 🙂

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**Author:** ![webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/58f4c7/32.png) [@webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/webstic)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/different-titles/173640/3 "2009-08-14T02:54:22Z")

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On Aug 12, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Philip G. wrote:

> CUT

There’s even a better solution, search the API for content\_for.

ngw

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**Author:** ![webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/58f4c7/32.png) [@webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/webstic)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/different-titles/173640/4 "2009-08-14T03:03:53Z")

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Nicholas W. wrote:

> On Aug 12, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Philip G. wrote:
> 
> > CUT
> 
> There’s even a better solution, search the API for content\_for.
> 
> ngw

Um, isn’t that what he used?

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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**Author:** ![webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/58f4c7/32.png) [@webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/webstic)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/different-titles/173640/5 "2009-08-14T06:21:33Z")

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Hi there,

Taking this a little step further, this is the pattern that our team  
has been using.

[http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2008/03/26/managing-seo-friendly-html-titles-with-rails](http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2008/03/26/managing-seo-friendly-html-titles-with-rails)

Good luck!

Robby

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Philip  
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> > blog 🙂
> 
> \<% end %\>
> 
> this works for me 🙂
> 
> –  
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).
> 
> >

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**Author:** ![webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/58f4c7/32.png) [@webstic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/webstic)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/different-titles/173640/6 "2009-08-14T13:39:57Z")

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On Aug 14, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

> Nicholas W. wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 12, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Philip G. wrote:
> > 
> > > CUT
> > 
> > There’s even a better solution, search the API for content\_for.
> 
> Um, isn’t that what he used?

I need to put more attention when I read 🙂  
My bad.

ngw