Custom content in layout sidebars.
| From: | Sam P. |
| Sent on: | Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 7:44 AM |
Regarding Ivan's problem -
custom sidebar content in layouts, here is a solution I found on the
way home:
Agile Development with Ruby on Rails, Section 22.9, Passing Data to Layouts, Page 508:
The same mechanism that lets you use yield :layout to embed the rendering of a template into the layout also allows you to generate arbitrary content in a template, which you can then embed in any template.
For example, different templates may need to add their own template-specific items to the standard page sidebar. We'll use the content_for mechanism in those templates to define content and then use yield in the layout to embed this content into the sidebar.
-Sam.
Agile Development with Ruby on Rails, Section 22.9, Passing Data to Layouts, Page 508:
The same mechanism that lets you use yield :layout to embed the rendering of a template into the layout also allows you to generate arbitrary content in a template, which you can then embed in any template.
For example, different templates may need to add their own template-specific items to the standard page sidebar. We'll use the content_for mechanism in those templates to define content and then use yield in the layout to embed this content into the sidebar.
-Sam.
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