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Eleeist
Eleeist

Reputation: 7041

Modular page layout

I would like to display certain things on every or almost every page of my application. Things like header, footer, sidebar or navigation.

How would I go about doing that? I am coming from languages like PHP and ColdFusion where I would either include files or call a function to display what I want. I am having a hard time understanding how I can implement it in Rails.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 108

Answers (2)

nathanvda
nathanvda

Reputation: 50057

Generally in your application layout, you use partials. A small example would look like

<body>
    <%= render :partial => 'shared/header' %>
    <%= yield %>
    <%= render :partial => 'shared/footer' %>
</body>

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

Jason Kim
Jason Kim

Reputation: 19041

Your application should have app/view/layouts/application.html.erb. That's where your html content goes.

In the application.html.erb, you should see <%= yield %>. This is where specific views for different controller actions with corresponding views go.

For your css files for application.html.erb, you should use app/assets/stylesheets/application.css.

For your javascript files for application.html.erb, you should use app/assets/javascripts/application.js.

Upvotes: 0

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