Rails - Sep 2005 - Trouble with layouts

I have a layout for an administrative panel for my blogging software  
that I want to break down into several sections. There is a portion  
of a column that I want to store some simple information, like  
displaying the currently logged in author, a simple summary of recent  
activity, an area to display system messages and the main content of  
the page. Unfortunately I can''t find anything that allows me to break  
up layouts into sections like this, any ideas?

Thanks!
Eric Czarny

Eric Czarny wrote:
> I have a layout for an administrative panel for my blogging software 
> that I want to break down into several sections. There is a portion  of
> a column that I want to store some simple information, like  displaying
> the currently logged in author, a simple summary of recent  activity, an
> area to display system messages and the main content of  the page.
> Unfortunately I can''t find anything that allows me to break  up
layouts
> into sections like this, any ideas?
Check out render :partial.

The quickest way to do that is to generate a scaffold for a certain
controller/model (by doing a script/generate scaffold ModelName, for
example), and see how the form-based layouts are handled.  In specific,
look at the _form.rhtml file that gets dropped in the layouts directory.

-- 
Alex