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Ruby

Posted by Eric Kim
Eric Kim
3,637 Points

How to display different navbar only for index page?

On ruby, if you place your navbar on application.html.erb, it displays on every page, however what I really want to do is, displaying different style of navbar only for index page, not for other pages (like: about, FAQ, etc, <-application.html.erb)

How can I display different style of navbar only for index page? while putting common navbar on application.html.erb for other pages?

1 Answer

Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell
4,434 Points
Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell
4,434 Points

This may not be best practice as I'm a bit of a novice, however to do something similar in my app I do the following:

  • Create a new layout file in your app/views/layouts folder such as home.html.erb
  • In that layout file, include all the code you'd usually include in application.html.erb - except replace the navbar with the navbar you'd like to see on the index page.
  • If you don't have a controller for pages, you'll need to create one - mine is pages_controller.rb
  • Add some code to the controller to use the new layout you created, for example:
def home
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { render :layout => 'home' }
    end
  end