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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 13, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/meta-http-equiv-refresh-content-5/148468 "2008-09-13T02:39:15Z")\
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**Author:**  [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/meta-http-equiv-refresh-content-5/148468/1 "2008-09-13T02:39:15Z")
Do you know of any way for me to stick a meta tag in using a
before\_filter or after\_filter or around\_filter?
I have been trying to figure out out and just cannot make sense of it.
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**Author:**  [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/meta-http-equiv-refresh-content-5/148468/2 "2008-09-14T01:39:06Z")
You could use the content\_for pattern. Set the header as he content in
your filter, and output it in your view.
Christian
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**Author:**  [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/meta-http-equiv-refresh-content-5/148468/3 "2008-09-14T02:09:30Z")
What Christian means is something like:
Put this in your app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:
\<%= yield :refresh\_tag %\>
And then you will need to call this in a view:
\<% content\_for :refresh\_tag do %\>
>
\<% end %\>
But this needs to be done in a view… unlike the requested
before\_filter and after\_filter.
You could set a variable in the before filter and wrap the code in an
if statement:
class ForumsController \< ApplicationController
before\_filter :refresh, :only =\> :show
# …
private
def refresh
@refresh = true
end
end
Then in your application.html.erb:
\<% if @refresh %\>
>
\<% end %\>
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On 14/09/2008, at 9:08 AM, Christian Rishøj wrote: