Question

I have a problem. I have an rails webpage and I am loading all the pages with jquery.

It all works as expected except when I try to access an URL that is rendered partial from the browser – I type in the browser http://www.mywebsite.something/aPageThatIsRenderedPartial.

As expected it is rendered partial and the layout is not loaded.

So my question is can I do some rails magic to render all if main layout is not loaded?

I will try to make this as clear as I can with my limited English skills:) :

Is it possible to something like this in the controller

If mainLayout is not loaded
then render :layout => true
else render :layout => false

Thanks again.

Answer 1

Just use different respond_to blocks:

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # general HTML request
  format.json { render :layout => false } # AJAX request
end

Don’t forget to specify format for your AJAX request as JSON, or change url to www.mywebsite.something/aPageThatIsRenderedPartial.json for JQuery Get request.