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sir_thursday
sir_thursday

Reputation: 5409

Render specific header for specific page

I'm new to RoR and using layouts/partials/rendering, all that good stuff, to make an app. At the beginning of my app I thought I would use the same header for the entire app, and thus wrote:

render 'layouts/header'

in my application.html.erb file. Now, I realized that for certain pages (i.e. sign up page and blog) I want to use a simplified header called simple_header. Do I write something like 

<%= if @simple_header
        render 'layouts/simple_header'
    else 
        render 'layouts/header' 
%>

and then test if @simple_header is true or something in a controller, or is there a better way to do this. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1376

Answers (2)

Mikhail Chuprynski
Mikhail Chuprynski

Reputation: 2493

Also (if you have simple logic) consider using

current_page?

method like this:

<% if current_page?(controller: 'sites', action: 'index') %>
...
<% else %>
...
<% end%>

Upvotes: 1

aBadAssCowboy
aBadAssCowboy

Reputation: 2520

In rails, you can create different layouts and choose which one to use for a particular action or a controller.

Watch this railscast http://railscasts.com/episodes/7-all-about-layouts

That should help you solve your problem.

For example.,

Create a new layout in app/views/layouts, say, simple_header.html.erb and in your controller, tell it to use that layout.

class BlogController < ApplicationController
 layout :simple_header

 def index
 end

end

Upvotes: 3

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