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Get the current layout's name in a view or partial

Arne Hartherz
October 27, 2010Software engineer at makandra GmbH
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This was valid for ancient Rails versions. It won't work on current Railses.

This returns the name (including path) of your current layout:

response.layout
=> "layouts/admin" # inside views that are using the 'admin' layout
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You most likely do not need the full path, so go ahead and do this:

File.basename(response.layout)
=> "admin"
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Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2010-10-27 10:06)
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