I have the answer for the Rails 2.X but not for Rails 3. How can I read the name of a current layout rendered inside a view.
My Rails2 question: Rails Layout name inside view
Thx.
I have the answer for the Rails 2.X but not for Rails 3. How can I read the name of a current layout rendered inside a view.
My Rails2 question: Rails Layout name inside view
Thx.
Getting this to work in Rails 3.2 is a little more complicated than previously outlined. If your controller explicitly declares a layout, then the result of controller.send(:_layout)
is a String, but otherwise it's an ActionView::Template. Try this:
module ApplicationHelper
def current_layout
layout = controller.send(:_layout)
if layout.instance_of? String
layout
else
File.basename(layout.identifier).split('.').first
end
end
end
For Rails 4:
controller.send(:_layout)
=> 'application'
For Rails 3.2:
controller.send(:_layout)
=> #<ActionView::Template:0x000000082bb788>
But controller.send(:_layout).identifier
returns the fullpath:
/home/davidm/Documentos/Devel/myapp/app/views/layouts/application.haml
I think it should be in core, but for now you can make a helper method:
def current_layout
controller.send :_layout
end
it will return currently used layout name
in rails 5
This works for me:
def current_layout
layout = controller.class.send(:_layout)
if layout.nil?
default_layout
elsif layout.instance_of? String or layout.instance_of? Symbol
layout
else
File.basename(layout.identifier).split('.').first
end
end
I have used in Rails4 at view pages and got reuslt.
controller.send(:_layout)
I hope this help.
For rails 5:
controller.class.send(:_layout)
This does NOT work:
controller.send(:_layout)
You can do what I've done in my Ajax gem for Rails which is to wrap the _render_layout
method:
ActionView::Base.class_eval do
def _render_layout_with_tracking(layout, locals, &block)
controller.instance_variable_set(:@_rendered_layout, layout)
_render_layout_without_tracking(layout, locals, &block)
end
alias_method_chain :_render_layout, :tracking
end
Then you can access the value that was set from your view (I'm pretty sure you have access to the controller there...) or in your controller in an after_filter
, which is what I do.
I've written a custom RSpec 2 matcher which can be used to test layout rendering in Rails 3.
All the approaches in the previous answers try to guess the name via private methods, but there's no need to guess and can be easily accomplished with the public API:
class ApplicationController
layout :set_layout
attr_reader :layout_name
helper_method :layout_name
private
def set_layout
@layout_name = "application"
end
end
Override in any controller that won't use the standard layout:
class MyController < ApplicationController
private
def set_layout
@layout_name = "my_layout"
end
end
And now in your views:
<%= layout_name %>