# Is inheiritance possible in layouts?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-inheiritance-possible-in-layouts/93068>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 27, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-inheiritance-possible-in-layouts/93068 "2007-04-27T03:37:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dave)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-inheiritance-possible-in-layouts/93068/1 "2007-04-27T03:37:55Z")

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Is it possible to have one layout extend another one?

For example:

normal.rhtml:

\<%= @content\_for\_layout %\>

extra\_stuff.rhtml somehow extends normal.rhtml:  
  
\<%= @content\_for\_layout %\>

So any page that uses extra\_stuff as its layout looks like this:

\<%= @content\_for\_layout %\>

Is this possible to do? It would be really handy. Thanks in advance  
for  
the help!

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**Author:** ![dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dave)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-inheiritance-possible-in-layouts/93068/2 "2007-04-27T04:58:01Z")

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Dave,

It looks very much like DRYML, part of Habo.

> **[Venostech.com](https://www.venostech.com/)**
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> Venostech.com

For my case simple segment layout I’ll just use helper method:

[http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/02/07/rails-an-adventure-with-dont-repeat](http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/02/07/rails-an-adventure-with-dont-repeat)  
-yourself-dry-template/

Herry

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**Author:** ![dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dave)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-inheiritance-possible-in-layouts/93068/3 "2007-04-27T04:06:58Z")

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> Is it possible to have one layout extend another one?
> 
> Is this possible to do? It would be really handy. Thanks in advance

[http://www.google.com/search?q=nested+layouts+in+rails](http://www.google.com/search?q=nested+layouts+in+rails)

4th link.