"conditional" layout according to XHR or not

Rails
1

Hi. This is what I mean:
Let’s consider a ‘show’ action called by URLs of the form: “GET /posts/
42”
In this project, this action can be either called directly or within a
page with XHR (ajax). Is there a pretty way to render the page within
the layout when it’s a direct call, and without it when it’s an XHR
call?

Thank you…

2

On 7/9/07, Aurélien Malisart [email protected] wrote:

class FooController
layout :select_layout

private
def select_layout
return nil if request.xhr?
“my_layout”
end
end

Though if you’re getting an xhr request shouldn’t you be returning
javascript anyway? There’d be no layout for that.

Pat

3

Thanks!

Though if you’re getting an xhr request shouldn’t you be returning
javascript anyway? There’d be no layout for that.

In that case, i’m returning the rendering of a partial (a form).