Turn off layout for one of action

Question

My situation: View action of ReportsController should render pure html, but not as a file (to view it in browser and save it after). So for rendering I use view template view.html.erb and i neet to turn off any layouts for this action. But in other actions of this controller layouts should stay untouched. Works only turning off for whole controller like this:

ReportsController < ApplicationController
  layout false

But that doing it wrong :( for all the actions I tried to use something like this in action:

def view      
  @report = Report.new(params[:report])
  unless @report.valid?
    render :action => 'new' and return
  else
    render :layout => false     
  end   
end

What should I do besides to kill myself.

Answer 1

Try this:

ReportsController < ApplicationController
  layout nil
  layout 'application', :except => :view

Answer 2

You can define conditional layouts. Check this out here. Try to use layout ..., :except => ...