John Mcleod wrote: > I have two different layouts (standard page and dialog box) for a view > (show). > How do I set each layout in the controller to show the different layout?
I don't know exactly what you're trying to accomplish from the information you provided, but this approach doesn't "feel" right to me. I would put the content of the page/dialog into a partial. I'm going to assume that your dialog version will be rendered by an AJAX call. In that case I would use respond_to to determine which layout to render: respond_to do |format| format.html # Render page with default layout format.js # Render the dialog version end In case you're not rendering the "dialog" version with AJAX then you might want to use a custom MIME type to render the alternate layout: respond_to do |format| format.html # Render page with default layout format.dlog # Render the dialog version as HTML using custom format type end > Where would I set the variable? in the show.html.erb? I'm not sure how you will be determining which layout to use, but if you absolutely had to store this in a variable you would need an instance variable on your controller. However, as I mentioned before moving the decision into the request seems like the better approach. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
