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Choosing Layouts at Runtime in Ruby on Rails - iPhone Safari x Firefox or IE on a PC

Fri, 10/30/2009 - 22:40 — dambrosio
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I wanted to set a different layout in my application depending on a decision of a special situation. For example, if the client system is a browser on an iPhone I'd like to show a different layout than a Firefox running in a PC.

I found inspiration on the official RoR documentation, specifically on the page about the rendering mechanism. Here is the code I wrote to display a specific layout if the client browser is a Safari running in a iPhone or iPod touch.

All you have to do is add some methods to your ApplicationController and have another layout file in your /views/layouts folder. Check the commented code below:

class ApplicationController
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Sat, 10/31/2009 - 04:12 — dambrosio

I found this article from IBM which might be a more robust/complete (although more complex) solution to the one I mentioned above.

Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse, Part 1: Serving content for iPhones: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-iphoneru...

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 16:27 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks a lot. This was short and to the point, just what I needed!