Rails - Aug 2006 - Layouts: application.rhtml v. mycontroller.rhtml

I was trying to be all DRY and standardize my layouts to one file and 
made an application.rhtml.  There was no application.rhtml at all 
before.

So I renamed all my controller layouts to .txt and then tested.  I got 
empty pages.

I found some issues with Login/UserEngine and application.rhtml, but 
nothing that looked like this behavior.  Is routing messing me up? 
It''s
as if application.rhtml is being totally ignored.

Did I miss this in the API docs?  Agile Dev v2 hasn''t re-written the 
appropriate sections yet, so I don''t have that crutch.  Is there a 
discussion of the load order of these files somewhere?  Or should I be 
poking the Engine guys?

thx,
--dwf

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can''t you just define your layout in the application controller?

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  layout ''standard'', :except => [ :rss, :atom ]
end

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Joshua wrote:
> can''t you just define your layout in the application controller?
He could, but from what I gather that''s what he''s trying to
avoid.

DWF, what happens if you delete the layout for that controller entirely? 
Have you tried building a new sample app without the login generator?

The application.rhtml default works (and has always) worked fine for me, 
but I don''t use any generators, and I don''t have any
conflicting (e.g.
your .txt layouts) files hanging around.

Try deleting the alternative layouts first, if no go, it could be the 
generator.

- Daniel


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