Rails always tries to use a layout with the same name as your controller

Henning Koch

December 27, 2013Software engineer at makandra GmbH

If you have a FooController and also have a layout app/views/layouts/foo.html, Rails will use this without being told so.

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This is super convenient except never.

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2013-12-27 14:08)