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Ruby

Justin Banta
Justin Banta
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Posted by Justin Banta
Justin Banta
3,834 Points

Nested Layouts in Ruby On Rails

I'm having trouble figuring out nested layouts for Ruby on Rails--it's not covered in any of the videos (as far as I can tell) and I can't quite parse the RailsGuide... (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html). Basically, I want to build a landing page layout that doesn't include the normal navbar, etc.

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Artem Kalinchuk
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Artem Kalinchuk
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Artem Kalinchuk
Artem Kalinchuk
Courses Plus Student 1,814 Points

Create a landing_page layout and specify it in your controller layout "landing_page". Use the landing page layout for your landing page and the application layout for the rest of your application.

Justin Banta
Justin Banta
3,834 Points
Justin Banta
Justin Banta
3,834 Points

Thanks for your response! I should have been a bit more specific, I could create the layout and update the controller, but it wasn't loading on the landing page for some reason. But I just ended up creating a very basic application layout and using partials... not sure if that's best practice, but it's working. Thanks again.