Sharing ruby code in view layout files

Rails
1

Hi,

I have a block of code that is used by the layout file (html.erb) of
every view. What is the best way to include this piece of code in all
layout files?

Can I actually include a Ruby file in an html.erb file, analogous to
how files are included in PHP?

Thanks,
Amrita

2

There is usually only one layout file. What are you trying to do? Views
can
share code by using helpers. You put them in application_helper.rb.

I have a block of code that is used by the layout file (html.erb) of
every view. What is the best way to include this piece of code in all
layout files?

Can I actually include a Ruby file in an html.erb file, analogous to
how files are included in PHP?

There is no need to do a “include”, helper methods in
application_helper.rb
are automatically made available to all the views.

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3

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 14:36 -0700, amrita wrote:

Hi,

I have a block of code that is used by the layout file (html.erb) of
every view. What is the best way to include this piece of code in all
layout files?

Can I actually include a Ruby file in an html.erb file, analogous to
how files are included in PHP?

I don’t know that this is a ‘best’ way but I have app/view/shared and
then in the appropriate area in my layout, I have…

<%= render :partial => “shared/name_of_shared_code” %>

Craig

4

Thanks! I gathered something was wrong with the way my application was
built. So, I shifted to a single layout file and specified the layout
in the application controller.

But its always good to know how code can be shared.

Thanks, Craig and Bala.