Question

I want a particular page in the application to have different layout, while all others will have pretty much the same layout. However, the application.html.erb file is rendered for all the pages in application. How do I not use the application.html.erb file for a particular page?

Rails version : 3.2.1

Answer 1

You can make another layout and specify and in your action you can simply use that as follow

class ReportsController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :authenticate_affiliate_user!

  def daily_breakdown
    render :layout => 'admin_layout'
  end
end

to you different layout in all of the action you can do as follow

class ReportsController < ApplicationController
  layout 'reporting_affiliate'
  before_filter :authenticate_affiliate_user!

  # your code here 
end