Sidebars should be placed in the main layout or the action's view

Rails
1

Just wondering. Should sidebars be in the view or in the main layout?

If they are in the main layout. i.e. with the following code:

  <div class="span-24">

    <div id="content" class="span-18">

        <%= yield %>

    </div>

    <div id="side-panel" class="span-6 last">

        sidebar

    </div>

  </div>

If the sidebar has dynamic content (i.e. data being set from the
action), how can this be displayed? So I am thinking that the sidebar
must be in the action’s view.

What are your thoughts? What is the rails way of doing this? Or
perhaps, is there a plugin that one can use?

2

Ok, I found out a better solution. Using <%= yield :side_panel %> in
main layout and

<% content_for :side_panel do %><%= render :partial =>
‘side_panel_show’, :object_topass => @object_topass %><% end %>

On Sep 1, 9:53 am, Christian F. [email protected]