# Layouts in Rails 2

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/layouts-in-rails-2/122830>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 12, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/layouts-in-rails-2/122830 "2007-12-12T18:15:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/layouts-in-rails-2/122830/1 "2007-12-12T18:15:15Z")

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i’m having a little problem coming up with a dry way to use a layout  
for multiple content types

i am using Mime::Type.register\_alias ‘text/html’, :openid

in my layouts folder i had application.html.erb, so i changed it to  
just be application.erb. that works for html requests, but anything  
marked as openid doesn’t display the layout at all. for now, i am  
having to duplicate the layout and have application.html.erb and  
application.openid.erb

any help is appreciated. thanks.