[Rails] Re: Referencing a Layout

Doug Jolley wrote:
>>�But why would you ever do that? �Layouts are designed to
>> hold the parts of your view that don't change. �If they don't change,
>> you shouldn't need to generate them on the fly.
>
> What I'd really like to be able to do is to allow for an external
> layout. That is, when another site links to the resource, it could
> append a parameter to the URL specifying the URL of an alternative
> layout to be used. Typically the alternative layout would be located
> on the host linking *TO* the resource. I'd have to get the layout
> across the network and that's how I wind up with it in a variable.
>
> I mentioned this in another post and from the limited responses that I
> received I concluded that almost no one else has any interest in doing
> this sort of thing. I find that a bit surprising and it leaves me
> wondering if I am not missing some other more popular way of skinning
> this cat. Anyway, that's the rationale behind my inquiry. Thanks for
> the input.

Yiure going about this backwards. Your site shouldn't be doing your
consumers' layout work. Instead, it sshould provide data that your
consumers can lay out as they please.

>
> ... doug

Best,
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