Rails core - Oct 2013 - Feature Suggestion: Rendering templates with blocks

It would be nice to be able to use blocks when rendering templates, similar 
to partial layouts.

With partial layouts, the following is possible (with 
`layouts/_special.html.erb`):

    <%= render layout: "layouts/special" do %>
      <foo>...</foo>
    <% end %>

This requires the layout to be a _partial_ layout. It would be convenient 
however to have the same option when rendering any template:

    <%= render template: "layouts/application" do %>
      <div class="foo-wrap"><%= yield %></div>
    <% end %>

The most obvious use case is creating a layout file adding some extra 
structure in the main content area of the application layout. This would 
seem to be a cleaner solution to nested layouts[1], since the application 
layout need not be changed. (The chaining/subtemplating considerations 
described in the guide would be unnecessary.)

Thoughts?

Best,
Johannes

[1]:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#using-nested-layouts

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