# How to include login\_engine pages in my own views? **URL:** \ **Category:** Engines\ **Created:** [February 13, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-include-login-engine-pages-in-my-own-views/53711 "2006-02-13T22:42:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-include-login-engine-pages-in-my-own-views/53711/1 "2006-02-13T22:42:33Z")
I installed the login\_engine and all works fine but when I log in I am redirected to a login page which looks like it’s not part of my site because it has different formatting and none of my headings ( partials on top of page ). Is there a way for me to include say the login page or the edit account page inside of my own views? I tried render(:file) but that didn’t work, there must be some smart way of doing this. Thanks, Mike ---
**Author:** ![mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-include-login-engine-pages-in-my-own-views/53711/2 "2006-02-15T23:30:12Z")
Have you tried setting a layout? If you need to set an explicit layout, just override the UserController in your application (read the Engines documentation for more details) and add a line like: layout “my\_layout\_which\_includes\_partials\_etc” - james On 2/13/06, Mike M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > engine-users mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org](http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org) – - J \* ~ ---
**Author:** ![mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-include-login-engine-pages-in-my-own-views/53711/3 "2006-02-17T18:08:26Z")
I haven’t tried the layout suggestion, I’m not sure I understand what to do with it. Here is what I’m trying to do. I have my own controller called called say ‘mike’. All my pages need to have a header even if users are not logged in. On the home page I need to display the header and below it the login screen. Once they log in they should see the entire page including the header which will always be there. I have tried using \<%= render\_component(:controller =\> ‘user’, :action =\> ‘login’) %\> at the bottom of my \_header.rhtml, this shows the login screen where I want it but when I click on login button or Register for an account | Forgot my password links, it complains that it can’t find action mike/login, why did the login screen all of the sudden pickup my controller name instead of using user/login. I can change the links to point to the user controller but not the login button. After a while of reading the Engines documentation and other wikis, I created an app/views/user directory and put login.rhtml there, created an empty user\_controller.rb in my app/controllers directory. Then something strange started happening all all pages render as blank and I get like 20 pages of errors in my webrick window, I can’t even see the top most message because there are so many errors. Not sure why that happened. For now I’ll just stick with putting a link to the user/login screen and users will go to that plain login page and then be routed back to my page. I have also tried putting the user/login page as the first page and attaching my header to the top of it but I can’t find the header because it’s not in the views/user/ directory. So far the login\_engine works great for me with the exception of being able to include it inside my own views. I probably need to read up and experiment more with it. Thanks for your help. Mike ---
**Author:** ![mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-include-login-engine-pages-in-my-own-views/53711/4 "2006-02-17T18:15:29Z")
What I’m suggesting is that you first define a layout for your application, in /app/views/layouts/my\_layout.rhtml: \<%= render\_partial 'shared/my\_header' %\> \<%= @content\_for\_layout %\> … and then the corresponding header partial, in /app/views/shared/\_my\_header.rhtml: # My Great app! Then, to make sure that the login engine renders its views using your layout, create a UserController in your own application to be mixed in to the engine one - /app/controllers/user\_controller.rb: class UserController \< ApplicationController layout ‘my\_layout’ end This means that all of the UserController actions (from the engine) should now be rendered with your custom layout, i.e. including the header. Does that make sense? - james On 2/17/06, Mike M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > an account | Forgot my password links, it complains that it can’t find > users will go to that plain login page and then be routed back to my > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > engine-users mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org](http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org) – - J \* ~ ---
**Author:** ![mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-include-login-engine-pages-in-my-own-views/53711/5 "2006-02-17T20:35:50Z")
Thanks, that really explained a lot for me. Everything seems fine except for the situation where I’m calling \<%= render\_component(:controller =\> ‘user’, :action =\> ‘login’) %\> in my app/views/mike/index.rhtml. My header shows up and the login screen below, but when I click login it complains that it can’t find action mike/user Thanks, Mike ---
**Author:** ![mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-include-login-engine-pages-in-my-own-views/53711/6 "2006-02-19T18:08:33Z")
This probably won’t work because the UserController simply isn’t a component. On 2/17/06, Mike M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > engine-users mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org](http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org) – - J \* ~ ---
**Author:** ![mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-include-login-engine-pages-in-my-own-views/53711/7 "2006-02-20T21:49:22Z")
I got it to work by following your suggestion about using my layout in the user\_controller and I scrapped the render\_component idea. Thanks a lot for your help. Mike