I don't know why I though the third method worked...anyway, a little
tweaking gives me this, which does work. Instead of the content_for I
pass a rendered collection into _sublayout as a local variable named
content.
4)
layout.html.erb
<html>
<head>head stuff</head>
<body>
some stuff
<%= yield %>
some stuff
</body>
</html>
index.html.erb
<%= render :partial =>"sublayout", :locals => { :content =>
(render :partial => "item", :collection => @items) } -%>
_sublayout.html.erb
some stuff
<%= content %>
some stuff
_item.html.erb
<%= h item.name %>
On Oct 1, 1:04 pm, Garrett Berneche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I have a nice layout for my app, but for some actions I want to use a
> shared sub layout. Anyone have ideas what the best practice would
> be? I have a method that works, but I am not sure if it is the 'rails
> way' of doing things, anyone care to critique it? I have tried the
> following...
>
> 1) making my action template call
> render :partial, :collection, :layout. The good new here is that it
> wraps the layout around the whole collection (not around each item in
> the collection) and doesn't blow away my main layout. The bad news is
> the sub-layout and collection are repeated as many times as there are
> items in the collection. This seems like a rails bug. The layout
> should be applied once around the whole collection, or once for each
> item in the collection, not both.
>
> 2) applying a layout to the render :action in the controller. This
> blows away my main layout. This is because i am rendering a template,
> not a partial, right?
>
> 3) using content_for to define a sub-layout. this works, but I feel
> like there should be an easier way. i am also not sure yet what would
> happen when i don't want a sub-layout. I guess I could make a
> _no_sub_layout.html.erb that just yields, or put the content all
> inside of the content_for block...I have a few other ideas too. One
> possible benefit is that I think you could keep nesting sub-layouts
> pretty easily if you wanted. Here is a simplified version of this
> solution.
>
> layout.html.erb
> <html>
> <head>head stuff</head>
> <body>
> some stuff
> <%= yield :sublayout %>
> some stuff
> </body>
> </html>
>
> index.html.erb
> <% content_for :sublayout do -%>
> <%= render :partial =>"sublayout" %>
> <% end -%>
>
> <% for item in @collection do -%>
> <%= render :partial => "item" -%>
> <% end -%>
>
> _sublayout.html.erb
> some stuff
> <%= yield %>
> some stuff
>
> _item.html.erb
> <%= h item.name %>
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