bypass layouts/application ? (blank view)

hi,

I'm trying to setup an admin part of the site. I used Admin::mycontroller to generate the controller and subfolder to keep admin files together.
So I have
app/controllers/admin/my_controller.rb
app/views/admin/my_controller.rhtml

The admin part uses the same model objects, in fact I just move the create/update/delete parts but I get a blank page.

The log reports "Rendering within layouts/application" but I don't want to use it, is there a simple way to bypass this? (layouts/application seems to refer to the whole site)

thanks

I guess you have something like

Code:

---

layout 'application'

---

in your ApplicationController?

All you'd have to do for a separate layout is override Admin::MyController with its own layout:

Code:

---

class Admin::MyController < ApplicationController
  layout 'admin'
  #other stuff...
end

---

I have no layout 'application' in my ApplicationController (application.rb I suppose).

I've created a subfolder directly under views/layouts/admin instead of views/admin/layouts and it works now but I'm not sure it's a clean way to do it. Do you mix admin and app controllers and views for your websites?

Its pretty late and I'm having trouble understanding so I'm just going to go over some concepts (if you know them arlready just ignore me)

When you specify a layout via the "layout" tag it looks under 'layouts' so:

Code:

---

layout 'application'

---

would look for 'layouts/application.rhtml'

So:

Code:

---

layout 'admin/application'

---

would look for 'layouts/admin/application.rhtml'

I hope that helps. It is okay to use another controllers layout, as layouts don't necessarilly belong to specific controller.

Thanks guys, I completely missed this concept!