Frames in Rails

Rails
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Hi there

I’m relatively new to rails (and web development).

I want to insert a video into my site which can keep playing even when
the user is browsing between pages. Should i do this with Frames or
iFrames?

I tried to implement it using frames but got a little stuck…

My site has the welcome (home) page which contains no frames:
www.mysite.com (www.mysite.com/home/index).
Then there is the page to display once someone has logged in:
www.mysite.com/projects/list

All pages except the home page use the application.html.erb layout.

I’m not sure how to integrate the frames html when I am using the
application layout.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Tim

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Tim C.
[email protected] wrote:

I’m not sure how to integrate the frames html when I am using the
application layout.

Use another layout.

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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Regardless of what I call the layout file, I still dont know how to make
this work.

I was thinking of making my application.html.erb something like this:

Title <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'style' %> <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>

Unfortunately this is just rendering a blank frame.
I have a whole bunch of other stuff I need to include like headers and
footers which also previously went in application.html.erb, but I am
unsure where to put that code now. How do I still include them?

Thanks

Tim

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Also, is frames even the best way to do this??
I did a little test and it seems the URL will not change as I browse
through my site when I am using frames. It will only keep original page
with the frameset in the URL bar rather than the URL of the individual
active frame.
Surely there is a better way of doing this?