Render layout on the fly

Rails
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Hi guys,

i was wondering if there is any possibility to render a layout on the
fly instead of putting it into the layouts/ folder. Any ideas?

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Franz Bettag wrote:

Hi guys,

i was wondering if there is any possibility to render a layout on the
fly instead of putting it into the layouts/ folder. Any ideas?

Not sure what you mean. Layouts are rendered just like any rhtml file.

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Alex W. wrote:

Franz Bettag wrote:

Hi guys,

i was wondering if there is any possibility to render a layout on the
fly instead of putting it into the layouts/ folder. Any ideas?

Not sure what you mean. Layouts are rendered just like any rhtml file.

Yeah but normal .rhtml files have to be in the layouts folder. I want to
load the layout from another website everytime the shop gets called. So
not store them locally. I know this i quite bw consuming on sites with
many hits but my customer want’s it that way :slight_smile:

4

Franz Bettag wrote:

Alex W. wrote:

Franz Bettag wrote:

Hi guys,

i was wondering if there is any possibility to render a layout on the
fly instead of putting it into the layouts/ folder. Any ideas?

Not sure what you mean. Layouts are rendered just like any rhtml file.

Yeah but normal .rhtml files have to be in the layouts folder. I want to
load the layout from another website everytime the shop gets called. So
not store them locally. I know this i quite bw consuming on sites with
many hits but my customer want’s it that way :slight_smile:

I took a look at the Rails API and found these examples:

Renders the template located at the absolute filesystem path

render :file => “/path/to/some/template.rhtml”
render :file => “c:/path/to/some/template.rhtml”

Renders a template within the current layout, and with a 404 status

code
render :file => “/path/to/some/template.rhtml”, :layout => true,
:status => 404
render :file => “c:/path/to/some/template.rhtml”, :layout => true,
:status => 404

Renders a template relative to the template root and chooses the

proper file extension
render :file => “some/template”, :use_full_path => true

and

Renders the template located in

[TEMPLATE_ROOT]/weblog/show.r(html|xml) (in Rails,
app/views/weblog/show.rhtml)
render :template => “weblog/show”