Question

I am using Rails3 I have many layouts in my project, I am defining layout’layout_name’ at the top of my controller. I am facing problem like all the layouts are rendering but only one layout is not rendering .. Can anybody say what is the reason?

Answer 1

Have a look at the tutorial about rendering, especially the section 2.2.13 “Finding Layout”. There are the different options listed:

• Find the layout for all actions of one controller
  • Name the layout in the directory app/views/layouts as your controller. So when your controller is named WorkItemsController, the corresponding layout is named work_items.htmlerb
  • You may change that convention in your controller with the following code, that will search for a layout named work.html.erb:
    class WorkItemsController < ApplicationController; layout "work"; ...
• There are even variations which allow the dynamic dispatch or even a layout by action.

Have a look at the API for layout to see all options possible here.