Question

Here I’ve a controller with 4 actions and i wanna apply application layout ( the default layout ) to new action only , or in other words i wanna except only index action from the layout so i write this but it doesn’t work, the index template is rendering with the layout.

class SessionsController < ApplicationController

    layout 'application', :except => :index

    def index
    end 

    def new
    end


    def create
        end
    end

    def destroy
    end

end

also I tried

layout 'application', :only => :new

but it doesn’t work too, same problem which the index template is rendering with layout.
any suggestions what’s the problem here?

Answer 1

You can create a method to define your layout and fix your layout only on new action

layout :my_layout

def my_layout
  params[:action] == 'new' ? 'application' : nil
end