yield content or yield

Question

I'm doing the following in my application template:

<%= yield(:content) or yield %>

I have a questions template that is nested within the application template. However, for my questions index, I want just want to display the application template, not the questions template.

As such, I override it like this:

  format.html { render :layout => "application"} 

This overrides the template fine such that the application template is rendered, not the question template. However, it doesn't seem like the "or yield" statement is working; my content is blank. It works fine when I change the application template to this:

<%= yield %>

I need the original statement though so I can have the nested template. I'd prefer not to have to write content_for's across the entire site in order to have a nested template.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Something like this should do the trick:

In place of

 <%= yield(:content) or yield %>

use:

<%= content_for?(:content) ? yield(:content) : yield %>

Hope this helps.