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Paul S.
Paul S.

Reputation: 4492

Rails not use application.html.erb

I know that by default, views in Rails use the template provided in application.html.erb. However, there's one view that I wouldn't like to use the template provided in application.html.erb, but rather write all the HTML in that view itself. Is that possible to do?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3995

Answers (5)

Unkas
Unkas

Reputation: 3710

You have to be sure that your controller inherits from ApplicationController

class MyCustomController < ApplicationController

Upvotes: 0

Kirti Thorat
Kirti Thorat

Reputation: 53018

You can achieve the same thing using custom layouts.

e.g. For WelcomeController

  1. Create a custom layout file named welcome.html.erb in app/views/layout/. Write your layout code there(don't forget the yield). Due to rails Convention over Configuration feature when rails renders any view mapped to WelcomeController, welcome.html.erb will override the default application.html.erb layout.

  2. If you want to name your custom layout file differently. Rails allows you to do that as well. Name your layout file as mylayout.html.erb. In WelcomeController, add the following code

    class WelcomeController < ApplicationController

    layout 'mylayout'

    ....

    end

  3. If you want custom layout for only a specific action, then on the last line of action write render layout: 'mylayout'

Upvotes: 2

muffinista
muffinista

Reputation: 6736

Sure, in your action do something like this:

def action
  render :layout => false
end

This assumes there are other actions in your controller which do need the layout. Otherwise, I would specify layout false in the controller root.

If you have multiple actions which don't need a layout, I believe you can do

layout false, :only => [ :action1, :action2 ]

Upvotes: 2

Russell
Russell

Reputation: 12439

For a specific action:

class SomeController < ApplicationController
  def my_custom_action
    render layout: false
  end
end

Upvotes: 4

doesterr
doesterr

Reputation: 3965

At the end of your controller action, add:

render :layout => false

Upvotes: 10

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