Rails - Aug 2006 - Putting a page within a page

Hi I''m new to RoR and for my webpage I want to nest a page that has my 
login fields in a seperate file. The idea is to create a login area on 
the left side of the screen that will be always visible until they login 
while the center section will be the main area.  I can do this using the 
application layout file, but I would like to not put the RHTML for the 
login into the layout directly.  Instead I''d like to leave it in the 
view/login>index.rhtml file.

Is there a way that from my application layout I could have that file 
rendered into the application layout from the login file?  I''ve tried 
using ''<%= render :partial => ''login''
%>'' already and about 100
different things I found on google.  The one way I found that almost 
worked was this "<%= render_component :controller =>
"login", :action =>
"index" %>" but it creates some kind of loop so I end up with
20 user
and password field on the screen when I hit stop.

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You had it.

<%= render :partial=>"login" %>  is the way to go. Keep in
mind when
rendering partials you file needs to be caled _login.rhtml not
login.rhml.

an other way would be using frames, but the kind a hacky solution - and
I don''t recomend it. I''ve done the same thing as you want by
using
partials.

the following is from wiki.rubyonrails.com:

Sharing partial templates between controllers

A partial template is normally placed in the same view directory as the
template it''s called from. To use the partial in a template in a
different directory, use the full path to that directory (from the
views directory).

For example, consider a template called _author_summary.rhtml which
exists in the directory, views/author. Now, you may also want to show
an author summary from, say, a blog page. In the blog template (which
is saved in /views/blog), use this:

<%= render :partial => ''author/author_summary'' %>

Notice that you don''t put the initial underscore that actually exists
on the name of the template.


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D. K. wrote:
> Hi I''m new to RoR and for my webpage I want to nest a page that
has my
> login fields in a seperate file. The idea is to create a login area on 
> the left side of the screen that will be always visible until they login 
> while the center section will be the main area.  I can do this using the 
> application layout file, but I would like to not put the RHTML for the 
> login into the layout directly.  Instead I''d like to leave it in
the
> view/login>index.rhtml file.
You would probably want to separate login form into a separate file
"app/views/login/_form.rhtml". Then from your login/index action say

render :partial => ''form''

and from your layout file:

render :partial => ''login/form''


Components are evil (and slow).

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