Change Rails’ layout via controller

I’ve seen a few people asking me how to specify a specific layout in their controllers. Simple:

#my admin/condos_controller.rb
class Admin::CondosController < ApplicationController
  layout 'layouts/admin'
end

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15 comments

  1. Steve
    February 29, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    I can’t figure out how to get a specific controller method to use a different layout. Your example works at the top of the controller, but how do I get “show” to use a different layout than “new” does? “render” doesn’t seem to work anymore.

  2. Steve
    February 29, 2008 at 9:59 am

    I can’t figure out how to get a specific controller method to use a different layout. Your example works at the top of the controller, but how do I get “show” to use a different layout than “new” does? “render” doesn’t seem to work anymore.

  3. Jonathan
    February 29, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    Steve, try something like this inside your method:

    render :action => "index", :layout => "help"

  4. Jonathan
    February 29, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Steve, try something like this inside your method:

    render :action => "index", :layout => "help"

  5. Steve
    March 1, 2008 at 2:57 am

    Jonathan – thanks! I appreciate your help and interest. I’m sorry, I don’t follow which “method” you are suggesting I place that directive in. Assuming we are talking about the controller, I’ve got the basic 2,0 RESTful controller with at present the basic seven methods. I want all except “show” to use a common layout, but I want “show” to use a different one. When I put anything that begins with “render” inside the show method I get an error informing me that too many redirects have been requested.

  6. Steve
    February 29, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    Jonathan – thanks! I appreciate your help and interest. I’m sorry, I don’t follow which “method” you are suggesting I place that directive in. Assuming we are talking about the controller, I’ve got the basic 2,0 RESTful controller with at present the basic seven methods. I want all except “show” to use a common layout, but I want “show” to use a different one. When I put anything that begins with “render” inside the show method I get an error informing me that too many redirects have been requested.

  7. Jonathan
    March 4, 2008 at 12:59 am

    Steve, this should make sense, if not, let me know.

    class DashboardController  "secondary"
  end

end
  8. Jonathan
    March 3, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    Steve, this should make sense, if not, let me know.

    class DashboardController < ApplicationController
  layout 'primary'

  def index
    @everything = Stuff.find(:all)
  end

  def show
    @something = Stuff.find(params[:id])
    render :layout => "secondary"
  end

end
  9. Steve
    March 4, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    Sweet – thanks!
    I had tried what you have in line #10 above, but it had *not* occurred to me to put what you have in line #2. Did both as you suggest and the app doesn’t complain now. Thanks so much for stocking with this for me!

  10. Steve
    March 4, 2008 at 4:22 am

    Sweet – thanks!
    I had tried what you have in line #10 above, but it had *not* occurred to me to put what you have in line #2. Did both as you suggest and the app doesn’t complain now. Thanks so much for stocking with this for me!

  11. Jonathan
    March 4, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    I had the same problem trying to figure that out :) Glad I could help!

  12. Jonathan
    March 4, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    I had the same problem trying to figure that out :) Glad I could help!

  13. John
    March 23, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    Will that work for RJS templates? i.e. format.js?

  14. John
    March 23, 2008 at 4:50 am

    Will that work for RJS templates? i.e. format.js?

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