Try doing this in your controller:
@padding = false

Then in your view you can test it like this:
<% if @padding %>
//do stuff here
<% end %>

I found it pretty helpful to work through this:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

Luke

On 2010-10-08, at 4:48 PM, nobosh wrote:

> Most of my views will required a wrapper of padding 10px,,, but a few
> will not...
> 
> I was thinking of doing something like this in the view controller:
> 
> 
>     respond_to do |format|
>       format.html { render :layout => true, :padding => 'false' }
> 
> And then in the application.html.erb have an IF to not add a padding
> class if :padding is false... But the above idea doesn't work, the
> variable padding is not being passed.
> 
> Any ideas? Or cleaner/smart solutions? thxs
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