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All About Layouts

#7 All About Layouts

Mar 19, 2007 | 6 minutes | Views
Everything you wanted to know about layouts: global layouts, controller layouts, shared layouts, dynamic layouts and action layouts. Yes, there really are that many ways to specify a layout.
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projects_controller.rb 
layout :user_layout

def index
  @projects = Project.find(:all)
  render :layout => 'projects'
end

protected

def user_layout
  if current_user.admin?
    "admin"
  else
    "application"
  end
end