Could someone point me in the right direction for specifying content at
the controller level so that I could use something similar to “yield
:left_nav_content” as well as “yield :layout” in my layouts?
I know I can specifiy this content in my view using something like:
<% content_for(“left_nav_content”) do %>
Some Menu Options
<% end %>
However I would need to repeat this in each view for a particular
controller. Any pointers on where to start looking at the
ActionController source to understand how this mechanism works greatly
received.
If you need to repeat a content block in numerous views I would
recommend simply creating another layout for those actions to use.
Hope this helps,
Zack
Hi Zack,
This was the path I was taking but found that there was a lot of
repeated code as each controller only required a different left hand
menu.
Ideally I would like to be able to stack layouts, which unfortunately it
not a feature I am aware of. I have taken this opportunity to learn more
about the plugins and am seeing if there is any way I could augment the
ActionController to give an easily reversed temporary solution.
I’m still learning ruby so get a bit lost when trying to follow some of
the rails ActionController and ActionView relationships.
All I really need is to pass the name of a partial to the layout so that
it can insert it in the left hand column. Unless a plugin exists that
does something similar?
It just seems such a waste to duplicate a bunch of layouts just for the
difference of a single section. I suppose I could pass in the menu via a
partial using the content_for helper in each view but it’s similarly
anti-DRY given multiple actions for a controller.
Andrew.
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