Comments on: Change Rails’ layout via controller

By: John

John — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:50:24 +0000

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

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:15:58 +0000

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

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:22:27 +0000

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!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:59:19 +0000

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

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:57:45 +0000

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.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:29:21 +0000

Steve, try something like this inside your method:

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

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:59:16 +0000

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.