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I have a home controller and a news controller. I want both of these controller to use the application.html.erb layout file and in addition to that, for home, use the home layout and news, use the news layout. and then render a specific view. Is this possible in rails?
In other words, I don't want to specify a layout per view, but per controller, both inheriting from application.html.erb layout.
What i want to do is remove the redundancy of adding the top navigation bar and including javascript/css in every single layout file. I'd rather include that in one file, and do controller specific layout with another layout, and then finally render the view.
Thanks
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Rails provides us great functionality for managing layouts in a web application. The layouts removes code duplication in view layer. You are able to slice all your application pages to blocks such as header, footer, sidebar, body and etc.
In Rails, layouts are pieces that fit together (for example header, footer, menus, etc) to make a complete view. An application may have as many layouts as you want. Rails use convention over configuration to automatically pair up layouts with respective controllers having same name.
By default, if you use the :text option, the text is rendered without using the current layout. If you want Rails to put the text into the current layout, you need to add the layout: true option.
A partial allows you to separate layout code out into a file which will be reused throughout the layout and/or multiple other layouts. For example, you might have a login form that you want to display on 10 different pages on your site.
You can tell a controller to use a specific layout, eg
class HomeController < ApplicationController layout 'home' end class NewsController < ApplicationController layout 'news' end These will expect the layouts in app/views/layouts/home.html.erb etc
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