*Very* basic layout question

Rails
1

I’m trying to use a different layout for just one action in my
controller, all the other actions use the application.rhtml layout, so
what i’m doing is …

class SomeController < ApplicationController
layout “simple”, :only=> :some_action

......

end

and the “simple” layout is applied to all the actions, can someone
please give me a hint?

Thanks for everything. I’m loving rails so far, loving the comunity =).

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On Jan 22, 2006, at 15:43, Santiago Hirschfeld wrote:

I’m trying to use a different layout for just one action in my
controller, all the other actions use the application.rhtml layout,

I’m not sure why what you already have doesn’t work, but instead just
do render(:action => ‘some_action’, :layout => ‘simple’) in your action.

–
Jakob S. - http://mentalized.net

3

Thanks, I did

def some_action
…
render(:action => ‘some_action’, :layout => ‘simple’)
end

And it worked fine, but i wonder if there is right to render an action
from the same action =) sorry for another stupid question, but I’m
curious.

Thank you for, very much.

2006/1/22, Jakob S. [email protected]:

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Santiago Hirschfeld wrote:

Thanks, I did

def some_action
…
render(:action => ‘some_action’, :layout => ‘simple’)
end

And it worked fine, but i wonder if there is right to render an action
from the same action =) sorry for another stupid question, but I’m
curious.

Yeah, it’s fine this way. Basically, Rails will do just that for you if
you don’t yourself. Doing it yourself just gives you a bit more control

  • and code.
5

Thanks for all the quick and usefull answers!

I got it working fine now, thanks again.

2006/1/22, Michiel S. [email protected]:

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2006/1/22, Jakob L. Skjerning [email protected]:

curious.

Yeah, it’s fine this way. Basically, Rails will do just that for you if
you don’t yourself. Doing it yourself just gives you a bit more control

  • and code.

To make the code look nicer, you can also just use render :layout =>
‘simple’. Which renders the current action with the ‘simple’ layout.

7

If I have in application_controller.rb:

layout ‘standard’

and in some_controller.rb

layout ‘special’, :only=>[:a, :b, :c]

All other actions in some_controller will use NO template at all, rather
than using the ‘standard’ layout specified in application.rb. Actions
not in :only, or in :except should inherit application.rb’s layout IMO.

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