The application layout is for the entire application and it doesn't care about what namespace you're in. If you really wanted a different layout you could use the layout method in your controller to tell it which one you want. ----- Ryan Bigg Freelancer Skype: radarlistener MSN & Gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/09/2008, at 10:00 PM, Ray wrote: > > My guess is that layouts span across controllers and views...aka > namespaces. I have one layout for my entire app mostly. And where I > have another layout is for public pages, but these layout are in no > way controller specific. Thou I do see apps where this makes sense. > > Ray > > On Sep 10, 1:10 pm, Danimal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Somewhat of an answer, somewhat of a new question... >> >> It looks like layouts use namespacing, but "backwards" from >> everything >> else. In other words, given my namespaced "admin", It would look for >> layouts in: >> >> apps/views/layouts/admin/whatever.html.erb >> >> I'm wondering why that way and not: >> >> apps/views/admin/layouts/whatever.html.erb >> >> The advantage to the latter would be that layouts and views would all >> "live" under the admin folder. Ahh well. >> >> Any insight on the why? I.e. why it is this way? >> >> -Danimal >> >> On Sep 10, 8:48 am, Danimal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hello! >> >>> Is it just me or are layouts not namespaced automatically? >> >>> For example, using the typical namespaced admin section, I have: >> >>> apps/controllers/admin/users_controller.rb # for example >>> apps/views/admin/users/index.html.erb >> >>> I then added this: >>> apps/views/admin/layouts/application.html.erb >> >>> But it won't use that layout... it's looking for: >>> apps/views/layouts/application.html.erb >> >>> Why are views namespaced but layouts aren't? There are lots of >>> "solutions" to this, I know, but I'm trying to understand why Rails >>> won't look at "apps/views/admin/layouts/" for layouts within the >>> admin >>> namespace? >> >>> Or maybe I'm missing something? >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> -Danimal > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
