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Hi I''ve got a login action that handles authenticating users, setting cookies and, via its view, displaying an HTML snippet containing a form with username and password fields. It''s called from the main application.rhtml layout so I don''t need to have a seperate page (away from the main site) with a login form. My user model is more-or-less the same as in the Agile RoR

I''m using application.rhtml as the common layout for all controllers in my app. I want to add navigation links inside the header portion of each page and this section is in the application layout (application.rhtml). The navigation links also include inforation like username and a link to logout if the user is logged in, or link to login...standard stuff. Anyway, i have controller

I have a application that it use view/layout/application.rhtml, in this file I have: <%= render_component :controller => ''car'', :action =>''index''%> But there is one problem, it display this problem: undefined method `render_component'' for #<#<Class:0xb67e6e48>:0xb67e5f34> How can I resolve this problem? -- You received this

I have dynamically generated list of links that I wish to include in different views, I''m using render_component to do this but it is also including the layout. How do I turn layout off on a per action basis? Many thanks, K. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi all, in my application there is tag''s cloud in old code which is load using following code <%= render_component :controller => "controller_name", :action => "tag_cloud_homepage"%> now i upgrade the ruby,gem and rails version to Ruby :1.8.7 Rails :2.3.11 gem :1.6.2 and i am using Windows XP as O.S my question, now in Rails 2.3.11 "<%=

Hello all. Am relatively new to RoR and I am pondering how to do something without using components since they appear to be "coda non grata". I have a standard layout that is used by all controllers. In this layout I want to list the next 5 events that are upcoming based on todays date. These events are currently stored in the Event model (created using scaffolding). Currently only

Hi All, Silly newb question. Is there a reason why :layout is unimplemented in render_component() ? I''m looking at a situation where that would *seem* to be the right answer. Are there any patches available to add this? JK

ruby script/generate controller Tools::Search - ok in views/layouts/application.rhtml: <%= render_component :controller => ''tools/search'', :action => ''searchbox'', :params => {:context => ''header-section''} %> in

Hello railists, I have a list of news headers on my index page. I would like to hide this list if current controller is ''news''. I put to main/index.rhtml "<% unless @controller == "news" %> list here news headers <% end %> . This doesn''t work. So, the question is how to get current controller name in template ? Thank You! -- Posted via

Hello all, I have a simple task. I need to create a guestbook component, and render it from the main application. The guestbook have the following controller actions: viewMessages - simply shows messages from model addMessage - generates form that accept message text, username, password. The form points to saveMessage action. saveMessage - receives data from addMessage action. On the main

Hi all, Any help is appreciated. I used the ajax scaffold generator to make 3 scaffoldings. Then I put them together as components in a combined layout and created a master controller, which happens to be named "dataentry''. That works fine. Within each of the components, I was able to set up links that paginate and update the div (for the component) with correctly paginated

Dears, My railsapp run using ''/layout/application.rhtml'' and under some conditions ( Authenticated user, url parameter) I like to switch globally to another layout, let''s say custom.rhtml Like : class AppController < ApplicationController before_filter :context_layout def index end end # application.rb def context_layout if <context_condition>

I''m stumped on what seems like should be a fairly easy thing, so I hope someone can point out my error. I wanted to show a few things on every page, so I added an application level template in "layouts". I added my styles in there, and put the controller name and action name into the TITLE tag for my own reference. So far so good - works like expected. Then I wanted to

trying to build an archive page in the controller layout file, i render_component(:action => "archive"), and that works fine. i turned render(:layout => false) within the "archive" function. trouble is, and here''s my confusion. as a test, i simply write def archive render(:layout => false) @archives = ''test'' end

Hi, I''m trying to write a sidebar menu with dynamic menus, and to do so I would like to define a list of menus to display within my sidebar component controller code and pass that list to the component display view, like so: # menu_controller.rb class Sidebar::MenuController < ActionController::Base uses_component_template_root @menus = %w{admin user help} def display

Hello, Maybe this is super-trivial... I need to have a list of links on the left hand side of my application, for *every* single page. So, I''ve created a layout called "main" (main.rhtml) under view/layouts, and included >layout "main"< in pretty all of my controllers. main.rhtml has, amongst all the other HTML stuff: <%= render_component

I''m trying to create a common header for my ruby on rails app. I have the common layout setup in application.rhtml. In the layout i have a div section "header" which is where i want to add information like logo image, the current user logged in, navigation links, standard stuff. However, when i try to add information in that "header" section, it does not display

Hello, where do we need <% -%> in templates ? What is the difference between <%= %> and it ? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, there is a method ActiveRecord::Base#exists? . I would like to override this method in a class ActiveRecord. Could anyone tell me how to do it? TIA -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I feel I am very close to understanding how layouts are used in Rails: Q1. I know one can specify a "default" layout for all methods in a controller by specifying layout ''my-default-layout'' How can this be overridden for individual methods so when those methods are called/executed, the overridden layout will be used. Is this possible? Q2. With no