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Ruby Ruby on Rails 5 Basics Handling Requests The Controller

gene c
gene c
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Posted by gene c
gene c
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render template: "posts/index.html.erb", layout: "application"

I really don't understand what this is doing? what is render template and what does layout signify

1 Answer

Shaneil Clarke
Shaneil Clarke
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Shaneil Clarke
Shaneil Clarke
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A template will be rendered automatically by rails that has the same name of the action.
render template: "posts/index.html.erb" is specifying which template to render, in this example they loaded the same that would have been rendered anyways.
layout: "application" is a default place you put HTML you want to be rendered on multiple pages. This prevents you from repeating the same HTML multiple places.