I don't know what the most elegant way is, but you can render variables and stuff inside of a layout just like in any other view and call 'render :partial' from within the layout as well.
You can also do this, inside of the application_controller define: def self.get_layout 'mylayout' end Then in your controllers use this: layout get_layout then you can redefine whatever layout you want more dynamically On Jul 15, 8:36 am, Patrick Doyle <wpds...@gmail.com> wrote: > There, was that subject sufficiently obtuse to grab your attention? :-) > > I would like to have several different stylesheets for my application > that may be selected dynamically as the user navigates through my > site. I have seen this done in PHP by passing parameters to each page > visited selecting (in that particular example) a stylesheet with a > larger or smaller font size, or high contrast vs normal contrast > viewing. In the PHP example, the author appended > ?fontsize=larger&contrast=high parameter to each link he generated. > Then, on each page, he looked at those parameters and selected the > appropriate stylesheet. > > What is the most elegant way to do a similar thing in RoR? Obviously, > the "on each page" part goes into the application layout. > > I could follow his lead and simply add the parameters to every link I > generate in my views, but I wonder if there is a way to set a > parameter globally that would automatically get tacked onto any URL's > generated by link_to and friends. > > Alternatively, I could store the data used to select the stylesheet in > the session. > > Alternatively, I could ask the community what other folks have done > and learn from them. > > --wpd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
