Simple question about yield :layout for Rails 2.3 app

addis_a · November 6, 2014, 4:52pm

I’m maintaining and old app. I’m seeing in the layouts they’ve used

<body>
    <%= yield :layout %>
</body>

rather than just a simple <%= yield %>

I’m guessing these are equivalent, but can someone give me a
history/explanation of the <%= yield :layout %> convention?

I can’t seem to be able to find any mention of it in old docs.

Thanks

mastabog · November 6, 2014, 5:23pm

This isn’t something thats been deprecated from rails, its also present
in
4.1.7 and its very commonly used.

I can point you to the appropriate docs here:

Cheers

George

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:51 PM, bruka [email protected] wrote:

history/explanation of the <%= yield :layout %> convention?

I can’t seem to be able to find any mention of it in old docs.

Thanks

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mastabog · November 6, 2014, 6:44pm

I think you misunderstood my question.

I asked about the :layout symbol specifically, not the general yielding
to
a specific block associated with content_for, i.e. <%= yield :head %>

The <%= yield :layout %> is not associated with a content_for and it is
in
fact yielding to the view template, same as plain <%= yield %>

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