Rails - Oct 2008 - ActionView: render a layout not in app/views?

Hey there,
I have a problem.

class ApplicationController
  layout :determine_layout

  def determine_layout
    "../../public/sites/#{@site.code}/application"
  end
end

in rails2.0 this worked, but it was clearly a hack.

I tried to fix it in a few ways;

1. symlink public/sites -> app/views/layouts/sites
- this breaks because the Dir.glob used to find view files doesnt work
for subfolders of a symlink

2. set ApplicationController.view_paths << "public/sites"
- this doesnt quite seem to work.

3. manually fix rails and work out the best way to patch it for 2.2.1
- this seemed to work, but isn''t quite plugin-able as a fix

mostly I''m wondering,
what is the right way to do this?

MatthewRudy
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Quite often I''m tasked with doing something very similar. Check out my
solution:

class ExperiencesController < ApplicationController
  self.view_paths << File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "cms",
"experiences")

  def show
    render :layout => "1/layout"
  end
end

requiring a folder structure like:
RAILS_ROOT/
  app/
  cms/
    experiences/
      1/
        layout.html.erb
  config/
  ...

Does that help?

On Oct 14, 4:25 pm, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-
s.net> wrote:
> Hey there,
> I have a problem.
>
> class ApplicationController
>   layout :determine_layout
>
>   def determine_layout
>    
"../../public/sites...-NkTKfzR1FWyzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org}/application"
>   end
> end
>
> in rails2.0 this worked, but it was clearly a hack.
>
> I tried to fix it in a few ways;
>
> 1. symlink public/sites -> app/views/layouts/sites
> - this breaks because the Dir.glob used to find view files doesnt work
> for subfolders of a symlink
>
> 2. set ApplicationController.view_paths << "public/sites"
> - this doesnt quite seem to work.
>
> 3. manually fix rails and work out the best way to patch it for 2.2.1
> - this seemed to work, but isn''t quite plugin-able as a fix
>
> mostly I''m wondering,
> what is the right way to do this?
>
> MatthewRudy
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> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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Andrew Bloom wrote:
> Quite often I''m tasked with doing something very similar. Check
out my
> solution:
> 
> class ExperiencesController < ApplicationController
>   self.view_paths << File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "cms",
"experiences")
> 
>   def show
>     render :layout => "1/layout"
>   end
> end
> 
> requiring a folder structure like:
> RAILS_ROOT/
>   app/
>   cms/
>     experiences/
>       1/
>         layout.html.erb
>   config/
>   ...
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> On Oct 14, 4:25�pm, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-
Hey thanks andrew,
that''s the same thing I''m trying to achieve,
although the code as such won''t quite work in Rails 2.1.1

it''ll give you errors about "found a view path that is not in the
right
format"

the correct way is
  append_view_path(...)

and you pointed out my error

I was doing;
  append_view_path("public/sites")

while actually what is required;
  append_view_path(File.join(Rails.root, "public", "sites"))

works great, it seems.
Thanks.
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Matthew Rudy Jacobs wrote:
tthew Rudy Jacobs <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-
> 
> Hey thanks andrew,
> that''s the same thing I''m trying to achieve,
> although the code as such won''t quite work in Rails 2.1.1
> 
> it''ll give you errors about "found a view path that is not in
the right
> format"
> 
> the correct way is
>   append_view_path(...)
> 
> and you pointed out my error
> 
> I was doing;
>   append_view_path("public/sites")
> 
> while actually what is required;
>   append_view_path(File.join(Rails.root, "public",
"sites"))
> 
> works great, it seems.
> Thanks.
Wrote a quick blog post about this;
http://rudygems.com/post/54730156/rendering-layouts-that-live-in-public
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