Or you could add something like <body class="<%= yield(:body_class) %>"> … your stuff </body>
and set a conditional css class which can handle the padding. Set the class with content_for() On Oct 9, 10:32 am, "Robert Pankowecki (rupert)" <[email protected]> wrote: > In my opinion you should have 2 layouts. > * application, > * padding. > > The `padding' layout should be nested inside application and > (according to its name) add some padding :-). Look here about how to > do it in rails 2 and > 3:https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/5305-rails3-rc-... > > With that you could setup layout per every action. > > layout :application > layout :padding, :only => [:new]. > > The second way of doing this: > > Add one more stylesheet in every view that needs padding: > > #application.html.erb layout > > <head> > <%= yield :head %> > </head> > > #new.html.erb > content_for(:head) do > stylesheet_link_tag 'padding' > end > > You could abstract it into helper method and use as simple as: > #new.html.erb > <%= padding() %> > > Third way is to create helper that would be used this way: > > <%= padding do %> > create your content here > <% end %> > > I wouldn't bother controller with such a minor change in view layer so > I prefere keeping padding in views instead changing layout on the > controller side. > > Robert Pankowecki -- 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.

