Question

Doing some integration work with another site I’ve got the unusual requirement of needing to create the layout at runtime.

At the moment I’m having to resort to something like this:

def new
  body = render_to_string 'new', :layout => false      
  page = add_layout(body, db.load_template)
  render :text => page
end

This is a bit awkward, I’d rather do something like:

def new
  ...
  render 'new', :layout => db.load_template
end

Is there a cleaner way to do this? Perhaps it’s possible to register new layouts at runtime and use the normal syntax?

Answer 1

Ha! I encountered a project that will solve just that. Check out panoramic. It stores rails views in the database instead of the filesystem.