Rails - Aug 2006 - DRY approach to views for password protected parts of a site

Hello,

I''m working on a system that has a protected part. Users have to login
in
order to be able to go there.
Now I was wondering how I should handle the layout in a DRY way. All pages
have the same layout with a header that contains either a few options and a
login part or the full stack of options. 
How should I code that layout in order to have a nice DRY layout? I want to
avoid to do checks on being authenticated in every layout. I prefer to have
a single template (with a fixed header and footer) for the entire site that
would be "automagically" included and rendered for users that are
authenticated and not authenticated at once. I guess this is a quite normal
question but I can''t find an article that also discusses the layout
organisation (ie which file should I place where).

Bart


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> I prefer to have a single template (with a fixed header and footer) for the
> entire site that would be "automagically" included and rendered
for users that
> are authenticated and not authenticated at once. 
I created a helper method (actually a controller method that I made 
available as a helper too) called logged_in? in my application 
controller, so I can do stuff like this in my layouts/views:

<%= render(:partial => ''user/user_dashboard'') if
logged_in? %>


Pertinent parts from the application controller:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  helper_method :logged_in?

  def logged_in?
    session[:user_id].nil? ? false : true
  end

end





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