Extra Dynamic Partials in Custom Layouts

Hallo,
I am quite new to rails an now I am planing to create a new project
and I am laying out the design.

What I want to do is that

  1. the users to change dynamically through the admin area of the site
    the position of the partials e.g (left, sidebar) and the layout should
    display for each part only the partials for this position

2)To use partials that are not related to the current action and would
be on the left or right side bar. but these partials have to use model
actions for their implementation.

I Have two thoughts:

  1. Use the embed_action plugin as it is described here
    http://www.notsostupid.com/blog/2007/10/23/the-embedded-actions-plugin-for-rails/