On Dec 19, 1:06 pm, Rob Pa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Ruby on Rails to create a new site. > > On every page, I want to have a log in box. I also want to display the > latest 5 news items on all the pages as well. > > How could I go around this?
You would probably want to put these elements in your layout, rather than in each individual view. > Is it possible to have @news = > News.find(:all, :limit => 5 ) in the application handler, and then call > the @news on all pages? You could do this, but it would probably be easier and more maintainable to use a partial. > > Would I also be able to handle the log in code in the main application > controller aswell? Yes. See restful_authentication for a very nice login plugin (I use it on most of my apps). > > Thanks a lot, > Rob Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser [email protected] http://www.marnen.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
