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Asked: 2026-05-27T09:14:48+00:00

I have a stylesheet, application.css defined in layouts/application.html.erb : <%= stylesheet_link_tag application %> However,

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I have a stylesheet, application.css defined in layouts/application.html.erb:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %>

However, there’s a section of the site where the views will use a completely different stylesheet, dashboard.css which I’ve defined in its index.html.erb:

<head>
    <title>My title</title>
    <%= stylesheet_link_tag "dashboard" %>
..

Unless I remove the stylesheet_link_tag in the application layout file, there are conflicts which make the dashboard view weird. If I move the application layout stylesheet tag to a _header.html.erb partial which is rendered with every view in the non-dashboard section like below, it doesn’t work. How must I call them?

<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %>
<header>
     <div id="headercontainer">
..
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  1. Editorial Team

    Create a separate layout for your dashboard, with specific stylesheets.

    If you want customized stylesheet for one of your controllers (and all of its actions), it’s quite easy to do. Create a layout with matching name, that is, for your users_controller, template name should be users.html.erb.

    Also you can specify any layout for controller.

    class UsersController < ApplicationController
  layout 'some_layout'
end

    If you want custom stylesheet only for some actions, specify corresponding layout in call to render.

    def dashboard
  # some logic here
  render :layout => 'some_layout'
end
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